Hi You can use contains for the id so that it can be used for regular expression. I remeber posting this on the mailing list some time back . If you cannot search it I will try and search and then post it here
Regards Hari On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Naegreth <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi and thanks for your help! > > > >> what error is WebTest reporing? > > Well, using clickElement it doesn't report an error for the clickElement > but for the next step. > > All seems fine but it does not request for the next page. > 1) I verified the h2 element text of the first page (that's ok), then > 2) I tried to get to the next page using clickElement (WebTest is > reporting no error) and > 3) I verified the h2 heading of the next page (Webtest reporting there > is no such text) > so i realized WebTest's current page is still the first one. > > I changed the test to > 1) verify the first page heading (still fine) > 2) click the Element to get to the next page (still no error reporting) > 3) verify the first page heading again ( fine - what acutually is not > that fine...) > > > > according to the other mailing list thread the issue is due to those > > ID's changing each time the layout is changed, making the test very > brittle. > > Ok... I must have mistaken that... my ID's seem to be ok as all other > elements use them and there is no problem. > > > > > You'll either need to click the inputs based on their position (also > > very fragile) or relative location based on some text nearby that > > doesn't change (have a read about xpath axes like previous-sibling etc). > > Hmm... ok. I've never used xPath (or even axes) before this and I'll > have a closer look . But if it needs some other "static" text nearby > another problem could be, that there is no such text... > > > > > How about using the image name in the src url? e.g. clickElement > > xpath:"//input[contains(@src,'theImageFile.gif')]" > > I've used: > <clickElement > xPath="//input[contains(@src,'/path/to/image.jpg')]" > /> > > And it's also not causing an error on the current test (although it > should cause an error, because I'm still verifing agains the headline of > the first page). > > Anyway, what is the reason why it doesn't cause an error? Is that a > normal behaviour? > > > Cheers > > Miriam > > > Lee Butts wrote: > > Hi, > > > > according to the other mailing list thread the issue is due to those > > ID's changing each time the layout is changed, making the test very > brittle. > > > > You'll either need to click the inputs based on their position (also > > very fragile) or relative location based on some text nearby that > > doesn't change (have a read about xpath axes like previous-sibling etc). > > > > How about using the image name in the src url? e.g. clickElement > > xpath:"//input[contains(@src,'theImageFile.gif')]" > > > > cheers > > > > Lee > > > > 2009/5/20 Lee Butts <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > Hi Miriam, > > > > what error is WebTest reporing? > > > > cheers > > > > Lee > > > > 2009/5/20 Naegreth <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> > > > > Hi, > > > > I am new to Webtest and I have a problem testing a jboss based > > web-app > > that uses jsf. > > > > I have a button-like input element with an onclick event to get > > to the > > next page: > > > > <input id="_idJsp26:_idJsp55" type="image" src="<path>" > > > onclick="A4J.AJAX.Submit('_viewRoot','_idJsp26',event,{'parameters':{'_idJsp26:_idJsp55':'_idJsp26:_idJsp55'} > > ,'actionUrl':'<path>.jsf?javax.portlet.faces.DirectLink=true'} > > );return > > false;" name="_idJsp26:_idJsp55"/> > > > > Everything worked fine so far except for this one. > > I tried to use clickElement with the htmlId and xPath as > > > > <clickElement xPath="//*...@id='_idJsp26:_idJsp55']"/> > > and > > <clickElement htmlId="_idJsp26:_idJsp55"/> > > > > I have no problems calling standart types for input elements > > (e.g. text) > > with similar IDs, so I assume it's not up to this. > > > > I already had a look at the list's archives and found a similar > > problem > > (http://lists.canoo.com/pipermail/webtest/2008q2/010653.html ) > > but I'm > > afraid I don't really get the point... > > > > Can someone please give me a hint what to use or to try next? > > > > Kind regards, > > Miriam > > > > _______________________________________________ > > WebTest mailing list > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > WebTest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest >
