Re: [Webtest] locating button within form - paul...@visi.com - com.canoo.lists.webtest

12 messages in com.canoo.lists.webtestRe: [Webtest] locating button within ...

From	Sent On	Attachments
andy johnson	25 Apr 2005 12:39
Marc Guillemot	26 Apr 2005 00:43
andy johnson	26 Apr 2005 01:10
Marc Guillemot	26 Apr 2005 01:21
andy johnson	26 Apr 2005 05:28
andy johnson	26 Apr 2005 14:41
Rajesh Menon	26 Apr 2005 15:25
Marc Guillemot	27 Apr 2005 02:07
andy johnson	27 Apr 2005 06:35
paul...@visi.com	27 Apr 2005 07:12
Rajesh Menon	27 Apr 2005 12:59
Marc Guillemot	12 May 2005 01:39

Subject:	Re: [Webtest] locating button within form
From:	paul...@visi.com (paul...@visi.com)
Date:	04/27/2005 07:12:14 AM
List:	com.canoo.lists.webtest

I prefer the new (non-nested) syntax you are suggesting. With one question. If you specify an index, as in <selectForm ...whatever.../> <clickButton stepid="Submit the simple form" name="doIt" index="1"/>

will this cause the 2nd button in the form that has been selected to be clicked, regardless of the button name, or will it also check the button name? I thought i'd seen some recent mailings regarding the inability to click an (image) button that didn't have a name. If name/label/htmlid all become irrelevant when `index` is used, then this may also solve that other problem? i.e. any combination of name, label, htmlid, or index is will be sufficient to find the button.

-- Paul

Quoting Marc Guillemot <mgui...@yahoo.fr>:

Before to reintroduce the index, I'd like to see if my simplification ideas are ok. Documentation still wrongly contains information about the old nested steps for clickButton: the <form> and <index> locators (http://webtest.canoo.com/manual/syntax.html#clickButton).

I think that the <form> locator is now useless because the selectForm step can be used instead. Furthermore I think that it would be cleaner to replace the <index> nested step of <clickButton> with an index attribute. First it would make test code shorter: <clickButton stepid="Submit the simple form" name="doIt" index="1"/> instead of <clickButton stepid="Submit the simple form" name="doIt"> <index value="1" /> </clickButton> and second it would make it consistent with setSelectField for instance that has already an index attribute.

What do you think?

Marc.

andy johnson wrote:

Hi Marc,

thanks...

I am trying to use release 1.6 - but i'm getting error.

I've downloaded ant1.6.2 and added ant bin directory to my path.

I can run the install test successfully... c:\canoo\doc\samples>ant -buildfile installTest.xml.

However, when i try to run a simple test (ie http://webtest.canoo.com/manual/samples.html - simpleTest.xml...)

i get the following error: c:\canoo\doc\samples>ant -buildfile mytest.xml Buildfile: mytest.xml

BUILD FAILED c:\canoo\doc\samples\mytest.xml:3: taskdef A class needed by class com.canoo. webtest.extension.ExportProperty cannot be found: com/meterware/httpunit/parsing /HTMLParserListener

any ideas??

thanks, Andy

From: Marc Guillemot <mgui...@yahoo.fr> Reply-To: webt...@lists.canoo.com To: webt...@lists.canoo.com Subject: Re: [Webtest] locating button within form Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:22:02 +0200

andy johnson wrote:

Hi Marc,

I would imagine a lot of people have encountered this issue-

not sure, it's not so common to have 2 submit buttons for the same form.

Is there no alternative?

none that doesn't require to improve current state of webtest.

If not, can you tell me what build number I should use in which the clickbutton nested index step is supported? - I will just use this build instead as i need this functionality...

release 1.6, the last base on httpunit. But using this release you wan't have all improvements that htmlunit brings concerning javascript. If you're a java programmer, I recommend you to add the index nested step again, it won't be so complicated.

Marc.