data binding

1. Create a test that logs in selects a language, verifies "Hello" text and ends
2. Data drive that test with a data source that has two columns.
3. The first column will be used to select the target language. What is contained in this column depends on the mechanics of how a language is selected in your application.
4. The second column is the text for "Hello" for that target language
5. Use these two columns in the two steps, one for selecting the language, the other for verifying the text.

One thing you'll need to watch out for is to verify the Find Expression for the "Hello" element doesn't use Text in the find expression. If it does, when you change the language the test will fail with "element not found" simply because Test Studio is looking for the target element with the static text.

I have a similar application, but I'm not able to bind to the UI dropdown list. The step allows selection by Index, Text or Value, but the Step Properties does not show a property for Bindings, as would be the case if the field were a simple text field.

Here's the HTML for the control..

<div class="ms-crm-Inline-Edit ms-crm-Inline-OptionSet noScroll ms-crm-Inline-HideByZeroHeight" style="display: none;">

<select id="new_preferredlanguage_i" class="ms-crm-SelectBox ms-crm-Inline-OptionSet-AutoOpen ms-crm-Inline-HideByZeroHeight-Ie7" attrname="new_preferredlanguage" defaultselected="100000000" attrpriv="7" title="" tabindex="-1" aria-labelledby="new_preferredlanguage_c new_preferredlanguage_w" size="3" style="height: 48px;" controlmode="normal">
<option title=""></option>
<option value="100000000" title="English">English</option>
<option value="100000001" title="French">French</option>
</select>

Your help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

dan

Hi,

I have a question similar to the question of Jeannette (Posted 16 Jul 2014)

my imagined work flow is:
1.I have a text file that contains the data (which will be data binded):
item 1
item 2
item 3
2. The code will compare it by getting all the rows of a column(as a group) from the text file then compare it to the data from the drop down list

I have tried this before but what happened was, data is retrieved one by one.

Right now I use arrays to store data but I am having a hard time maintaining it, because every time there will be updates in the data, I have to recompile the code even though the code was unchanged.

Is there a way to accomplish this in Test Studio?

thanks.

Thanks for your response, Boyan.

We don't own that part of the code, so changing the property size is not a possible workaround for us.

But, given your explanation of the root cause, I see this as a defect, rather than a missing feature. In the app I am creating scripts for, dropdowns are everywhere, and our approach is to avoid writing code as much as possible. Respectfully, I would encourage your team to give this issue a high priority and provide a fix/feature as quickly as possible.

Thanks again for your help.

dan