On Sunday 15 July 2007 11:26, Benji York wrote:
> I think I miscommunicated. Let me combine your example and mine to
> demonstrate what I was talking about. Say you have an HTML document and
> you want to make assertions about a portion of it. You could use XPath
> to extract part of the document and then use the smart ellipses to make
> assertions about it. Like so:
>
> >>> browser.open(...)
> >>> Introspector(browser.contents).xpath('//foo')
> <foo ...>Text here</foo>
>
> In the above example, the tester wants to extract the <foo> element, and
> assert that its contents are "Text here" and that there are no child
> elements. They don't want to make any assertions about it's attributes
> so they put the ellipses there. Is that example clearer?
Yes, I see. I think this would be somewhat useful, since it would make the
test less brittle to id or cass changes.
Regards,
Stephan
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training
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