Hi Navi,
yes, you are right with your understanding.
WATIR locates elements completely different from Selenium
When you write,
element=b.span(id: 'click')
It doesn't locate the element, but when you write
element.click
it locates the element and continue to perform the click operation, this
arrangement is useful to relocate the element when element goes to stale,
waiting until element is visible and likewise this arrangement is useful
for cases. Technically this should include even when I call text method as
well. But I do in my project here is,
I write code like
b.wait_until(b.label(id: 'something').text?'Expected Text')
This will reexecute the statement for 30 seconds, otherwise it would throw
the error
Or
b.label(id: 'something').wait_until{|element| element.text.eql?'Expected
Text'}
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 11:16 AM NaviHan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Titus
>
> Thats makes it very clear now :-)
>
> Just to confirm, action methods as in set, click, select
> And the reading attribute values like id, text, or any other custom
> attribute are not auto covered and we need to use wait_until(&:present?)
>
> Is that correct?
>
> Cheers
> Navi
>
> On Tuesday, 11 September 2018 14:52:33 UTC+10, NaviHan wrote:
>>
>> This is something that keeps me a bit sceptic when I write and read the
>> automation code in my project.
>> This used PageObjects.
>>
>> I have seen extensive use of element referces, for example
>>
>> button(:add_to_bag, :css => '#add-to-cart')
>> add_to_bag.element.when_present.click
>>
>>
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> add_to_bag
>>
>> which directly clicks the element
>>
>> I have also seen extensive use of referencing elements using
>> <element>.when_present, <element>.wait_until_present etc
>>
>> Im confused where we should draw the line when deciding to reference the
>> element and actually using it(as in directly calling "add_o_bag" in the
>> above example to click the element.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
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