Selinium works nicely with element names (e.g. "name=button:2") and these are
(almost) stable in Wicket.
Sven
John Ray-2 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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