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Improving component recognition with a CustomWebResolver

Video Video: 'CustomWebResolver in QF-Test'.

HTML is a very flexible language for describing the content of web pages. But unfortunately there are no real standards with regard to components which should be used to draw a button, a text field or a table showing data. As a result nearly every framework implements its own way of drawing such components. This means the HTML structure (the so-called DOM tree) looks different for every web framework. In order to allow QF-Test to identify the components as buttons or data tables etc. we need some kind of dictionary. The dictionary should work as a translator for the properties of the HTML components to the QF-Test vocabulary.

QF-Test offers a generic component resolver to be configured freely, the CustomWebResolver, allowing you to adapt the component recognition of QF-Test without too great an effort to the specific needs of your web page.

Before starting to set up test cases you should check the component recognition and maybe improve it. We recommend the following approach:

  1. Record GUI objects you want to interact with in the test on different web pages of the application.
  2. Check the recorded QF-Test components
    • whether they were mapped to Generic classes,
    • if they have sufficient recognition criteria ('Name' and 'Feature' attributes, qfs:label in 'Extra features'),
    • for the depth of the component hierarchy,
    • whether complex components such as tables, lists, trees etc. have been mapped as such and the sub-items were addressed via index.
      • You will find detailed information on the standard recording of HTML elements and criteria for deciding whether it is sufficent in Recognition of web components and toolkits.
  3. In case you identified weak points, check the respective GUI objects of different web pages trying to identify their characteristic attributes to be mapped to generic QF-Test classes, as well as 'good' attributes for the 'Name' and 'Feature' of the QF-Test component. You can use the UI Inspector to analyze the web elements.
  4. Configure the component mapping as described in The 'Install CustomWebResolver' node.
  5. In case tests already exist: Update existing nodes, see Update 'Components'.

49.1.1
General configuration

49.1.2
The 'Install CustomWebResolver' node

49.1.3
'CustomWebResolver' – Tables

49.1.4
'CustomWebResolver' – Tree

49.1.5
'CustomWebResolver' – TreeTable

49.1.6
'CustomWebResolver' – Lists

49.1.7
'CustomWebResolver' – Combo boxes

49.1.8
'CustomWebResolver' – TabPanel and Accordion

49.1.9
Example for WebCarConfigurator

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