Working with dynamic content

Relevant for: GUI tests and components

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How can I create and run tests or components on objects that change dynamically from viewing to viewing?

Sometimes the content of objects in an application changes due to dynamic content. You can create dynamic descriptions of these objects so that OpenText Functional Testing will recognize them when it runs the test or component using regular expressions, the Description object, repository parameters, or SetTOProperty steps.

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How can I check that an object or child object exists (or does not exist)?

Some objects are created in an application only after you perform an operation. For example, a link in one window sometimes creates another window. The newly created window may be an independent object, or a child of the original window.

Before you perform operations on an object created during a run session, you may want to verify that the object already exists.

Use the Exist property to check whether the object exists in the application. This property looks for an object in the application that matches the test object's description. For example:

If Window("Main").ActiveX("Slider").Exist Then
. .  .

Alternatively, you can use the ChildObjects method to retrieve all child objects (or the subset of child objects that match a certain description) on the Desktop or within any other parent object.

Set oDesc = Description.Create
oDesc("Class Name").Value = "Window"
Set coll = Desktop.ChildObjects(oDesc)
For i = 0 to coll.count -1
        msgbox coll(i).GetROProperty("text")
Next

• After you use the ChildObjects method to retrieve an object, OpenText Functional Testing accesses the object directly in the application and does not save a description for the object. Therefore, you must use the object immediately after retrieving it, before anything in the application changes.

• The Exist property searches for objects based on their description, and is therefore not relevant for objects retrieved by the ChildObjects method. (The Exist property always returns true when called for such objects).

For more details on the Exist property and ChildObjects method, see the Common Methods and Properties section of the Object Model Reference for GUI Testing.

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How does OpenText Functional Testing record on dynamically generated URLs and Web pages?

OpenText Functional Testing actually clicks links as they are displayed on the page. Therefore, OpenText Functional Testing records how to find a particular object, such as a link on the page, rather than the object itself. For example, if the link to a dynamically generated URL is an image, then OpenText Functional Testing records the "IMG" HTML tag, and the name of the image. This enables OpenText Functional Testing to find this image in the future and click on it.

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How does OpenText Functional Testing handle tabs in browsers?

OpenText Functional Testing provides several methods that you can use with the Browser test object to manage tabs in your Web browser.

For more details on these Browser-related methods, see the Web section of the Object Model Reference for GUI Testing.

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See also:

• Known Issues - Using data
• FAQ