Re: [Webtest] verifyXPath fails on R_882 - Marc Guillemot - com.canoo.lists.webtest

8 messages in com.canoo.lists.webtestRe: [Webtest] verifyXPath fails on R_882

From	Sent On	Attachments
Tim Miller	23 Jun 2005 16:58
Denis N. Antonioli	24 Jun 2005 06:44
Tim Miller	24 Jun 2005 08:51
Denis N. Antonioli	24 Jun 2005 11:01
Tim Miller	24 Jun 2005 12:14
Tim Miller	28 Jun 2005 09:43
Denis N. Antonioli	28 Jun 2005 13:07
Marc Guillemot	12 Jul 2005 04:31

Subject:	Re: [Webtest] verifyXPath fails on R_882
From:	Marc Guillemot (mgui...@yahoo.fr)
Date:	07/12/2005 04:31:14 AM
List:	com.canoo.lists.webtest

Hi,

as "authoritative opinion" ;-) I think that the new version of Jaxen is right
(meaning that the previous one was erroneously removing some spaces). Therefore the xpath expression used must
*really* match the html. normalize-space is a good solution, an alternative could be to use contains.

An advanced possibility would be to provide additional utility functions to use
in XPath expressions.

Marc.

Denis N. Antonioli wrote:

Hi Tim

I would think that this is a big in one of the underlying library, but I'm not entirely convinced. Who has an authoritative opinion on this? Marc?

In between, you may try with the normalize-space function of xpath:

//tr[normalize-space(td)='2.1'][normalize-space(td)='2.2']/td[3]

That may be the faster, if not the more elegant, solution.

Best dna

On 28 juin 05, at 18:44, Tim Miller wrote:

Any ideas on how to proceed with this problem? We do not have control over what the app sends us in a table.

-----Original Message----- From: webt...@lists.canoo.com [mailto:webt...@lists.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Tim Miller Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 12:14 PM To: webt...@lists.canoo.com Subject: RE: [Webtest] verifyXPath fails on R_882

Denis,

Could it be that Jaxen is now more in alignment with the spec? WebTest R_825 uses jaxen-1.0-FCS-full.jar and R_882 is using jaxen-1.1-beta-6.jar. I'm sure there is a good reason to be using the beta.

-----Original Message----- From: webt...@lists.canoo.com [mailto:webt...@lists.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Denis N. Antonioli Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 11:02 AM To: webt...@lists.canoo.com Subject: Re: [Webtest] verifyXPath fails on R_882

Hi Tim

indeed, when I insert a new line in my test document, the test fails too.

Now is time to go look at the specification, see how it should behave ;-)

Nice weekend dna

On 24 juin 05, at 17:52, Tim Miller wrote:

Denis,

I pulled the following out of the actual page. I noticed that there is a return before the '76071-1' value. Could this be causing a problem?

Order and Analysis summary for each line item in the order:<BR> <table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1"> <tr> <th>OrdLineNum</th> <th>ProdId</th>

<th>ProdDesc</th> <th>Ndc</th> <th>OrdQty</th> <th>UnitPrice</th> <th>MinOrdQty</th> <th>OrdUnitQty</th>

<th>EdgeRecCode</th> <th>EdgeRecQty</th> <th>EdgeRndRecQty</th> <th>EdgeRecMethod</th> </tr> <tr> <td>

76071-1 </td> <td> 76071 </td> <td> Prestall Ap 100mg </td> <td> 90543300071 </td>

1 </td> <td> NR </td> <td> 1000 </td> <td> 1000 </td>

-----Original Message----- From: webt...@lists.canoo.com [mailto:webt...@lists.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Denis N. Antonioli Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 6:45 AM To: webt...@lists.canoo.com Subject: Re: [Webtest] verifyXPath fails on R_882

Hi Tim

I tried to reproduce your bug with following minimal html page:

And the parameters xpath = "//tr[td='2.1'][td='2.1']/td[3]" text = "2.3"

To no avail, the it doesn't break.

How does your html page differ from the simple version I'm using?

Best dna

On 24 juin 05, at 01:59, Tim Miller wrote:

Any idea why verifyXPath does not work when moving from R_825 to R_882? All of my verifyXPath steps now fail. The only thing that changed was the WebTest version. Below is one sample step.

<verifyXPath description="Check for Product Description in table row"

xpath="//tr[td='${alert.ord.line.num}'][td='${alert.prod.id}']/td [3]"

text="${alert.prod.desc}" />

Output TestResultOverview.html:

com.canoo.webtest.engine.StepFailedException: xpath test: //tr [td='76071-1'][td='76071']/td[3] evaluates to: , expected value is: Prestall Ap 100mg, Step: VerifyXPath at C:\tools\WebTestSuite\gm- scenario\scenario-867-852-001\VerifySecondPurchaseOrderTest.xml:38: with (text="Prestall Ap 100mg", description="Check for Product Description in table row", xpath="//tr[td='76071-1'][td='76071']/td [3]", stepType="verifyXPath")