Create a JIRA issue please.
I think the auto-number generator could gain some sophistication in
this regard - your idea sounds like a decent plan.
Martijn
On 5/16/08, John Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm using the Selenium IDE add on in Firefox to generate automated tests of
> my wicket application. All I have to do is browse my website and it will
> generate Java code that I can use as a starting point for a test. Such as
>
> selenium.open("/customersSearch.html");
> selenium.type("customerName13", "smith");
> selenium.click("searchButton14");
> selenium.waitForPageToLoad("30000");
> verifyTrue(selenium.isTextPresent("No Customer Exists
> With That Name"));
>
> The customerName13 and searchButton14 are ids of a TextField and
> IndicatingAjaxButton on my HTML page. These IDs are both generated by wicket
> based off of the original component ids. The main issue that I'm running
> into is that since wicket generates unique IDs based off of a counter the
> test is very fragile. If I add a component at the top of the page (or as of
> wicket 1.4 on a previous page) then the IDs all change and my test breaks.
> Selenium does have the ability to search based off of an elements name
> attribute so I could go through and manually change the generated code to
> use it but it's a bit of a pain. Also, if I have an AjaxButton in a repeater
> (such as a list of customers) then there is no easy way of selecting it
> other then off of the ID. I thought about calling setMarkupId() for all of
> my components but it's a bit of a pain to have to do it for every component
> that might get tested and doesn't work in things like repeaters.
>
> I was wondering if there would be a problem with changing the generated IDs
> so that the first instance of a component with an ID of "customerName" on a
> page would have a generated ID of "customerName", the second would be
> "customerName2" and so on. This would make the IDs consistent enough that
> they could be used for testing.
>
> John
>
>
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