Learn about the challenges of testing real world complex web applications such as Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce. This presentation discusses some of the challenges of using XPATH and provides solutions and ideas to make this easier.

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Rapise Way to Rapid Web UI Test Automation
Denis Markovtsev
@dmarkovtsev

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Web UI Test Automation Challenges
▪ Cross-browser recording/playback
▪ Data loading delays
▪DOM element identification
▪Resilient XPath generation

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Test Engineers Want It Automated
▪ Recorded test should work
▪ Just after recording
▪ When included into a test suite
▪ If AUT is modified

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Typical Test Scenario

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Typical Situation

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Or Even Worse

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Reason #1: Dynamic ID
//button[@id='89EF7']/span
More examples:
<button type="button"
id="CustFreeInvoice_3_AccountingActionsTab_btn">
<div id="appGridQueryFilter_Component8738712>

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Reason #2: Weak Attribute Usage
//form[@id='aspnetForm']/div[2]/div/div/nav/div[
2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/di
v/div/div/div/div/button/span/span
Compare with
//button[@role='menuitem']/span[@aria-
label='Customers']

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Reason #3: Hidden Layers

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Reason #3: Hidden Layers
Recorded:
//form[@id='aspnetForm']
Ways to fix:
//form[@controlname='Business Manager Role
Center’]
/div[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' spa-
view ') and position()=last()]/form

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Give Them Tools! To
▪ Detect dynamic IDs
▪ Analyze identification power of attributes
▪ Analyze classes
▪ Identify Anchors

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Get Unique Sorted Attribute Values

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Query and Compare Multiple Documents

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Calculate Identification Power of Attributes

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Define Anchors
//div[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' spa-
view ') and position()=last()]
Find nearest anchor to recorded element and include it in
XPath:
//div[contains(concat(' ', @class, ' '), ' spa-
view ') and position()=last()]
//button[@role='menuitem']/span[@aria-
label='Customers']

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Build Web Application Profile

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Get A Working Test After Recording

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Summary
▪ Testers need reliable recording
▪ They need tools for application analysis
▪ With proper tools they can build an application profile
▪ The profile can be used for automatic generation of
resilient Xpath expressions

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Thank you
Contacts:
denis@inflectra.com
dmarkovtsev
Inflectra
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