Chapter 2: Advanced Concepts; Working With Containers - Adobe FLEX 2-TESTING FLEX APPLICATIONS WITH MERCURY QUICKTEST PROFESSIONAL Manual

Testing flex applications with mercury quicktest professional

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CHAPTER 2

Advanced Concepts

This topic describes advanced concepts when using Mercury QuickTest Professional to test

Flex applications.

Contents

Working with Repeater objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Working with data-driven and List-based controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Limitations of automated testing with Flex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Working with containers

In general, Mercury QuickTest Professional (QTP) reduces the amount of detail about nested

controls in the testing script. It removes containers that have no impact on the results of the

test or on the identification of the controls from the script. This applies to containers that are

used exclusively for layout, such as the HBox, VBox, and Canvas containers, except when they

are being used in ViewStack, TabNavigator, or Accordion containers. In these cases, they are

added to the hierarchy to provide navigation.

When using nested containers, you should be wary of ID conflicts. It is possible for containers

with multiple tabs (such as Accordion and TabNavigator containers) to have the same label on

more than one tab. These containers derive their IDs from the tab labels, therefore, there

could be overlapping IDs.

QTP does not record layout containers in the scripts unless you execute an event on that

container. This keeps the test objects from becoming too deeply nested, which makes the

testing scripts less readable.

For more information on the application hierarchy, see

"About the application hierarchy"

on page

11.

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