Feature Requests item #1653557, was opened at 2007-02-06 20:46 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by henryju You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=497985&aid=1653557&group_id=61302
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: Release 1.4 Status: Open Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Aaron Loes (loesak) >Assigned to: Julien HENRY (henryju) Summary: Access to ALL elements by Id Initial Comment: I apologize if this is cryptic, this is my first feature submission. I am currently working QA for a client with very detailed design requirements. Every element on a web page definition has a unique id associated to it. For testing, we use this unique id as the id attribute for the html elements. We are looking at using jWebUnit to perform our validation, but we cannot verify every type of html element by id. Therefore, we extend WebTestCase and write our own assertions to verify by id. In these cases, we just assert the element exists and then assert the other condition (i.e. assertLinkWithExactText, etc). This, although a adequate option, can prove to yield false positives (The element with the id exists and the link with exact text exists but are not the same element). Another need is to verify an element with the given id contains another element. Many of our id's had to be put in parent elements and it would be desirable to verify that such parent elements contain child elements (i.e. images inside links, links inside tables, other elements inside spans, etc.). Not sure of best practice to implement this, but here is what I see as a preferred option: * have overloaded functions for each assertXXX where an id is taken as an argument and the element with the id is verified to be the desired element (i.e. assertLinkWithExactText(String id, String text) asserts the element with given id is indeed a link and contains the exact text). * have functions that verify the element with the given id contains another element (i.e. assertLinkWithExactTextInElement(String id, String text) verifies that a link with the exact text is contained in the element found to have the given id). I believe the first suggestion is the most important as all elements can contain id arguments, and it would be most helpful to find, and verify, those elements by their id. The second suggestion is helpful as there are situations were you need to verify that an element has a desired child element. The only implementation that I have found is just the assertTextInElement, even though text does not have an element. (is lack of an element still an element?) Please feel free to ask if you have questions. I hope everything in this was clear, concise and spelt correctly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Julien HENRY (henryju) Date: 2007-03-03 23:13 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1235926 Originator: NO OK, I will try to improve this. But it will be for 1.5... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=497985&aid=1653557&group_id=61302 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ JWebUnit-development mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jwebunit-development
