Marc would be best to answer this but it is possibly not a bug. verifyText works against the source of the page, at least for my ajax pages when I do a view source on the page I do not see what is loaded by ajax just the code calling the ajax that will load the content. I wrote this note to answer someone else's same problem and perhaps it is less confusing than my simple explanation above: http://markmail.org/search/?q=ajax+verifytext#query:ajax%20verifytext%20list%3Acom.canoo.lists.webtest+page:1+mid:ry6bafe5qsgxo7fv+state:results
From: Michal Sokolowski [mailto:mic...@gradweb.co.uk] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 7:41 AM To: webtest@lists.canoo.com; Soula, William Subject: RE: verifyText problem This is the problem because I need this to be as simple as possible. Basically I've wrote asp.NET harness around WebTest, so even non technical users should be able to record and run simple tests using WebTest recording tool. If veryfiText is really not working after ajax reload, shouldn't it be raised as a bug? Thanks very much. Kind regards, Michal Sokolowski Web Developer ________________________________ From: webtest-ad...@lists.canoo.com [mailto:webtest-ad...@lists.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Soula, William Sent: Friday 20 February 2009 13:11 To: webtest@lists.canoo.com Subject: [Webtest] RE: verifyText problem Try using XPath I have found verifyText to not work after an ajax reload. From: webtest-ad...@lists.canoo.com [mailto:webtest-ad...@lists.canoo.com] On Behalf Of Michal Sokolowski Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:51 AM To: webtest@lists.canoo.com Subject: [Webtest] verifyText problem Hi All, Thank you for the help with my previous problem, but unfortunately I've run into another one. I'm trying to verify if the item has been added to list, but unfortunately webtest is always failing to find the text. Weird thing is when I'm looking on the results page on the step that errors I can clearly see the text I'm looking for. I've looked into the list archive but none of the solutions are working for me. The text I'm looking for is appearing on the page after ajax reload. Here is the test XML: <project default="test"> <target name="test"> <webtest name="Check if List Exist"> <config> <header name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12" /> <option name="ThrowExceptionOnScriptError" value="false" /> </config> <invoke url="http://gradwebuat01:1999/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fadmin%2fPages%2fgloballistview.aspx"; /> <sleep description="it is typically wise to include a sleep" seconds="5" /> <setInputField name="ctl00$cphBody$Login1$UserName" value="admin" /> <sleep description="it is typically wise to include a sleep" seconds="5" /> <setInputField description="Set password field ctl00$cphBody$Login1$Password: admin" name="ctl00$cphBody$Login1$Password" value="admin" /> <sleep description="it is typically wise to include a sleep" seconds="5" /> <clickButton label="Log In" /> <sleep description="it is typically wise to include a sleep" seconds="5" /> <setSelectField name="ctl00$cphAdmin$ddlIntakes" text="Test Intake 1" /> <-- Here ajax reload occurs <sleep description="it is typically wise to include a sleep" seconds="5" /> <verifyText description="Verify that text is contained in the page" text="TestGL " /> <sleep description="it is typically wise to include a sleep" seconds="5" /> </webtest> </target> </project> And the part of HTML code that I'm getting from Webtest report on failed step. <tr class="gridViewAltRowStyle"> <td> TestGL </td> <td class="gridViewButtonRowField" align="center"> <a href="GlobalListEdit.aspx?id=1956daee-5d4c-4ca6-8ee1-ed956f0f24a3" title="Press this link to edit the global list"> Edit </a> </td> <td class="gridViewButtonRowField" align="center"> <a onclick="return confirm('Are you sure you wish to delete this record?');" id="ctl00_cphAdmin_gvwGlobalLists_ctl17_btnDelete" title="Click me..." href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cphAdmin$gvwGlobalLists$ctl17$btnDelete','')"> Delete </a> </td> <td class="gridViewButtonRowField" align="center"> <a id="ctl00_cphAdmin_gvwGlobalLists_ctl17_btnCopyList" href="javascript:__doPostBack('ctl00$cphAdmin$gvwGlobalLists$ctl17$btnCopyList','')"> Copy </a> </td> </tr> Any ideas? Kind regards, Michal Sokolowski Web Developer
