I'm somewhat new to automation, and am learning everything auto-didactically, so forgive me if my terminology is a bit off. I've searched hi and low for an answer to this question, and I can't seem to find anything. I presume it's my small vocabulary when it comes to this stuff... anyway...
I'm attempting to write a test that performs all the actions necessary to complete a tutorial by using the recorder. However, for one particular step, the element ID changes. For example, the ID I'm trying to click is this:
//li[#id='message_661119']/div[2]/div[2]/a/img
However, for each new user that is performing the tutorial "quest", the number of the id changes.
Is there anyway to get Selenium to recognize, or use, wildcards? Example:
//li[#id='message_******']/div[2]/div[2]/a/img
Of course, the example above does not work.
Any advice would be immensely helpful. Thank you!!
You can use starts-with() for this:
//li[starts-with(#id, 'message_')]/div[2]/div[2]/a/img
It's one of the examples mentioned in Locating Techniques in Selenium's docs for starts-with().
In Target field of the command in Selenium IDE where you can see message_123123 click on a dropdownlist and choose an option which is related to xpath:idRelative or if this one doesn't work then try another options which do not include that annoying message_123123 so this way you'll identify webpage element by it's location but not id. I solved my issue this way
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So i think this is one area that I run into issues with, and despite Cypress's amazing documentation assertions sort of feel lacking (but maybe thats because they use Chai assertions and I should be looking there? but even then i've run into confusion).
Anyways, it seems like when I am asserting on some items within cypress I return into conflicting results and I can't seem to pinpoint any reason why.
A few examples specifically:
Why does should(‘contain’,'{Some Text}) search child elements but should(‘have.text/value’,{Some Text}) does not? Or at least thats how it appears? I can't find any documentation that states this
In the example above I noticed this when having a cy.get on an angular dropdown toggle with a <span> within it (that contains the text).
Another oddity is have.text vs have.value. I've noticed sometimes works when the other doesn't. For example input fields only have.value works but not contains or have.text. Is there any reason for this?
I guess im trying to figure out if there is some cheat sheet/guide to when to use each one because it's mostly been trial and error for me (But i'd like to know "why" one works and the other doesn't).
Thanks!
I am looking for a low code solution for a Wix website I am creating. I have the website done except for the gamified task. I am looking to present the user with 3 or 4 pictures on the page, and they must make a selection of the available pictures. The selection is either correct or incorrect based on a pre-determined decision, and the click and selection need to be stored and saved in a database. Following correctly choosing the correct or incorrect answer, the user is presented with the next question. I was wondering if anyone had any key terms to look up that are no code/low code solutions to a task like this, or examples that anyone has seen of tasks that have been made in wix/corvid like this. Any help is greatly appreciated.
You will need some code to do this. It shouldn't be too difficult to do, but there's some work involved.
Some of the APIs you'll need to use are
$w.Image.onClick()
wix-data.insert() (or wix-dataset.save())
See the screenshot here:
I'd like the user to just type a city or country name and the autocompleter will show suggested items.
How should I start for creating it?
Are there any API(s) or web services for me to call?
Where can I find the database of all cities/countries in the world?
I think this would be the best database for your situation, check it out:
http://www.geodatasource.com/cities-free.html
You first need a autocomplete plugin.
I recommend to use the jQuery-Ui Auto Complete Plugin.
The database could as example be this, but eventually try to search a bit for yourself.
There was already a question on stackoverflow about a database for cities of the world.
A simple text file with all cities may also be this.
There are very much of those libraries, but you have to chose the right one for you.
My solution may not be the best, but it's a starting point:
Google a list with all countries (ISO-Standard), paste it into a txt-file. Then you can simply read that file with PHP an create a select menu with the contents of the file.
It does not incorporate the cities, but maybe it helps you in some way.
In general how does one test a various parts of a GUI? What are good practices? (Yes I am being overly general here).
Let take for Notepad's Find dialog box:
Notepad's Find dialog box http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/5483/imgp.png
What are some things that can be tested? How does one know its working correctly? What are edge cases to look out for? Stress tests?
Here.
I doubt any good generalization can be made about this - it always depends on the situation.
When someone asks for tests for GUI I always assume that that mean 'this part of application that is accessible via this GUI'. Otherwise it would mean testing the only the GUI without any logic hooked. Dunno why no one never actually asked for testing if the events are fired when button is pressed or is displayed window acquiring focus.
Anyway back to the question. First of all find out about equivalence classes, boundary conditions other testing techniques. Than try to apply it for given problem. Than try to be creative.
All those should be applied when creating following tests:
1) happy path tests - application acts right when given input is good
2) negative tests - application acts right when given input is bad
3) psychotic user behavior (I saw someone use this term, and I find it to be great) - that one user that has nothing better to do than break your application or is to stupid to actually know how bad and horrible things he is doing with your app.
After all this if all tests are passing and you can't figure out other, than you don't know is it working properly, but you can say that it passed all tests and it seems to be working correctly.
As for given GUI example.
1)
Is the application finding string that is in opened file?
Is the application finding character that is in opened file?
How is it reacting to reaching end of file during search?
Is it finding other appearances of given string/character or just one, when there are many of those appearances ?
Is it handling special search characters like * or ? correctly?
Is it searching in desired direction?
Is it 'Mach case ' option working properly?
When opening find setting some criteria, canceling search and launching it again - are search criteria back to default values? Or are they set as you left them when clicking Cancel?
2)
Is it informing user that no mach was found when trying to search for data that is not in opened file?
Is it reacting properly when trying to search down form end of file?
Is it reacting properly when trying to search up form beginning of file?
How search feature is reacting when no file is loaded? (in MS notepad it can be done, but in other editors you can launch editor without opening a file hence this test)
Can I mark both Up and Downs search direction?
3)
Is it working properly on 4GB file?
Can I load 4 GB string in 'Find What:' field and search for it?
Can I provide as input special characters by providing ASCII codes? (it was done like pressing Alt and number of character... or something like that)
Can I search for empty character (there was something like that in character table).
Can I search for characters like end of line or CarretReturn?
Will it search for characters form different languages? (Chinese, or other non-english alphabet characters)
Can I inject something like ') DROP ALL TABLES; (if that would be web based search).
Will I be able to launch proper event twice by really fast double click on search button? (easier on web apps)
With reasonable test suite you know it seems to work correctly.
I think it is better to separate out functional aspects and the usability aspects for the GUI testing.
Let us say in the above example take the use case of user entering some text and hitting the Find button. From the functional aspect I would say your tests should check whether this user action (event) calls the appropriate event handler methods. These can be automated if your code has good separation between the GUI display code and the
functional part.
Testing of usability aspect would involve checking things like whether the display occurs correctly in multiple platforms. I think this needs to be verified manually. But I think there are some tools that automate this kind of GUI testing as well but I've no experience with them.
It's difficult and error-prone to test finished UIs.
But if you are more interested form the programmer's perspective, please have a read of the paper The Humble Dialog. It presents an architecture for creating UIs whose functionality can be tested in code using standard testing frameworks.
I write automated test with Ruby(Selenium framework) and I need to know how can I select an option from drop-down list.
Thanks in advance!
building on floehopper's answer:
selenium.addSelection(locator, value)
or
selenium.select(locator, value)
You almost certainly want "id=my_select_box_id" (with the quotes) for locator, though other CSS selectors will work. value is the literal text value (not the display value) of the option to be selected.
It sounds like you are writing a functional test here. Selecting it probably won't do you much good on its own. You need to submit the form in order to test the controller. :)
It might help people answering to know which testing framework you are using, because there are several to choose from.
If you are using RSpec, check out this screencast.
Hope that helps anyway.
Aside from functional tests, if you're looking for something that acts a bit more like the real app, have a look at WebRat. For non-AJAXed integration tests, it has a very nice DSL for selection your DOMs and taking appropriate actions against them. (link-clicking form-filling etc.).
On the other hand if your App is an external Web App that you just want to do acceptance tests on, you can also check Selenimum or Watir.
Note that WeRat is heavily web framework based where as Selenimum and Watir use the browser to interact with your web app directly (like a real user).
I think you want this command :-
select(selectLocator, optionLocator)
selectLocator identifies the drop down list
optionLocator identifies the option within the list
Easiest way of doing this: select(selectLocator,optionLocator) as suggested above.
selectLocator: name or xpath for dropdown object
optionLocator: name or xpath for dropdown option to be selected
E.g.
#selenium.select "Language", "label=Ruby"