Hi Gert, By utilizing the verifyXPath step, you can achieve both of your use cases. It can become a bit more complex as a result, and adding ids, classes, spans, and other html tricks, you can leverage the power of XPath without it becoming too hard to follow and maintain.
Given your screenshot, here's some example html which would represent an
equivalent layout along with the validation steps.
HTML:
<table>
<tr>
<td>Assigned to:</td>
<td>admin lastname</td>
<td>Domain:</td>
<td>AML</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Assigned by:</td>
<td>admin lastname</td>
</td>Status:</td>
<td>Assigned</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id="eulist">
<p>Check on EU List <span class="alert">Alert</span></p>
</div>
Verification:
<verifyXPath description="Verify the item is Assigned To admin lastname"
xpath="//tr[./td[1]="Assigned to:"]/td[2]" value="admin lastname" />
<verifyXPath description="Verify the item is Assigned By admin lastname"
xpath="//tr[./td[1]="Assigned by:"]/td[2]" value="admin lastname" />
If you want to strip out spaces, you can utilize the normalize-space function:
<verifyXPath description="Verify EU List status"
xpath="normalize-space(id('eulist'))" value="Check on EU List Alert" />
More information on XPath can be found here:
* W3C XML Path Language (XPath) Documentation<http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath>
* W3 Schools XPath Tutorial<http://www.w3schools.com/xpath/>
Hopefully this helps.
Cheers,
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On Feb 18, 2010, at 8:06 AM, Gert Pauwels wrote:
Hi,
We have been using Canoo for quite some time now, and are always looking to
extend its use. I have two issues I'd like to discuss:
1 verifying text for its exact location on the screen
2 verifying texts that on screen are displayed next to each other (but source
page contains tabs etc.)
1 Verifying text and exact location
Our webpage is divided into several sections. Each section contains a number of
fields in any number of rows and columns. Let's look at one field. If for
instance Customer ID is on my screen, it will have specific location (row 0 =
top row, column 0 = left most column). I can verify that the field is present
alright, but I would like to find a way to determine its exact location. If my
field is in row 2, column 1 then I need to be able to that in Canoo. The
question is how? (I've attached a screenshot)
Example:
first column caption: Assigned to
first colunm value for that field: Richard Branson
second column caption, row 3: Branch Name
value for this field: Tokyo Branch
How do I make Canoo know that the value Tokyo Branch is the value for Branch
Name, and not for the Assigned to field?
2 Verifying text next to each other
I need to find a way to determine whether for the text on the left hand side of
the screen the text on the right hand side of the screen matches a given value.
Looking at the source of the webpage, I cannot find any hooks to tie myself
onto for this. An example:
Check on EU List (some spaces, tabs or whatever later, invisible to the user)
Alert
Check on OFAC list (some spaces, tabs or whatever later, invisible to the user)
Pass
When running Canoo, I need to be sure that when I verifyText 'Alert' this is
for the value 'Check on EU List' and not for any other text that may appear on
the same page.
If possible, how?
Thanks for your assistance
Gert Pauwels
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