You may assign a fixed "id" to any component you want to test. This makes
you can always refer to the same component with the same id.
HTH,
- - Rafa
On Nov 5, 2007 8:12 PM, Yaron Spektor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was trying out Selenium and badboy today.
>
> I couldn't make any of them work for me.
>
> For example I used Selenium IDE and tried to record a very short session:
>
> 1. Go to a search page
>
> 2. click an id of a user ("1111")
>
> 3. click on "search" ("form1:doSearch")
>
> 4. from a list of users in a table, click on the link of this user id
> ("form1:_id25:0:comp_760").
>
> As I am working with JSF creating a dynamic id for each component the
> first time around I recorded "form1:_id25:0:comp_760" after that I got
> "form1:_id25:0:comp_930" etc. (the comp number changed). How do I make
> Selenium (or badboy for that matter) realize this is the same link? I
> googled this for a long time not finding any solution. I tried xpath but it
> gave me the same "form1:_id25:0:comp_760", I also tried using the xpath
> table location and it didn't work: ("//tr[2]/td/table.1.0")
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Here is the source from selenium IDE on my first attempt:
>
>
>
> <html>
>
> <head>
>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
>
> <title>New Test</title>
>
> </head>
>
> <body>
>
> <table cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" border="1">
>
> <thead>
>
> <tr><td rowspan="1" colspan="3">New Test</td></tr>
>
> </thead><tbody>
>
> <tr>
>
> <td>open</td>
>
> <td>/proj/employeeSearch.faces</td>
>
> <td></td>
>
> </tr>
>
> <tr>
>
> <td>type</td>
>
> <td>form1:_id22</td>
>
> <td>1111</td>
>
> </tr>
>
> <tr>
>
> <td>clickAndWait</td>
>
> <td>form1:doSearch</td>
>
> <td></td>
>
> </tr>
>
> <tr>
>
> <td>clickAndWait</td>
>
> <td>form1:_id25:0:comp_760</td>
>
> <td></td>
>
> </tr>
>
>
>
> </tbody></table>
>
> </body>
>
> </html>
>
>
>
> Yaron
>
>
>
