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Fennek
Occasional Contributor
14 years ago

Structure of Name Mapping

Hi guys,



I`m starting my first TC-Project at the moment and I would like to ask you the following question about the name mapping feature:



I will test webpages. The question is, do I actually need the whole structure of the hierarchy of the webpages in my name mapping tree?

In my beginner-eyes I would say I just need the hierarchy to uniquely identify my GUI-Objects on a webpage (for example, when there are two identic objects I can`t differentiate with their attributes then I can use the hierarchy of the webpage).

But I would say I can always differantiate my GUI-Objects of a certain webpage with their attributes. So would it be fine to just hang all my GUI-Objects directly under the webpage root knode of my name mapping tree and check the "Extended Find" checkbox?

I think that would save us a lot of time in maintaining the name mapping and probably our not that technical users a lot of nerves...



What do you think about that?

2 Replies

  • Hi,



    Using Extended Find is OK in your case. Keeping the entire object hierarchy in Name Mapping is not required if you're planning to use only specific objects.
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    Fennek
    Occasional Contributor
    Hi Jared,



    thanks for affirmation. So far I have used the "Extended Find" option mainly and I have no problems with it...





    Thanks

    Andreas