How to count elements in search result and fail the step if max results is counted?

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Hi there,

I’m trying to figure out the best way to count elements on a page (search results) and how to fail the test if the count exceeds 25 results on page X (the test case:

  1. Perform a search
  2. Verify, that the search results on the search result page does not exceeds 25 results

I’ve defined my test object like this:

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I’m a stranger to loop statements, and therefore I have not been able to make use of any of these statements: https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/statements.html#looping-statements

I know, that my question is lacking some details, but I have not started writing the code - in other words: I’m in need of some guidance here!

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PLS have a look at this post.

You do not need any “loop” statements. You just need to know the size of the List<WebElement> returned by WebUI.findWebElements keyword.

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Hi Kazuraym!

Thanks for your reply. I’ve tried to implement the code snippit in my TC like this:
List trElements = WebUI.findWebElements(
SearchPage.search_result, 10)
println “trElements.size()=${trElements.size()}”

Where I defined SearchPage.search_result as:
def static search_result = Utils.createTestObject(‘xpath’, ‘//*[@id=“resultList”]/section/div/div/div/div/div[2]/ul/li[1]/a/div/div’)

This is what happening:
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The test runs without errors, but I’m not sure what to read from the result - I simply do not know what the output is telling me about my web elements that I want to count.

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This should show some digit.0, 1, 2, … The digit depends on how the target HTML looks like.

What digit do you expect to see?

What digit do you actually see?

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I would expect to see the actual number of results (which is 10 results).
I do not see any digits in the result in Katalon.

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You can find the output from println in the Console tab as the following screenshot shows.

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If you wan to see 10 in the Log Viewer tab, you should rather write:

WebUI.comment("trElements.size()=${trElements.size()}")
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I thank you for your help, Kazurayam.
However, I’m afraid that I do not know how to utilize your examples.

I’ll try to break my problem further down:
Let’s say I’m a tester at Google, and I want to verify, that each search result page only shows 10 results per page.

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Now I need to write a step in my TC in Katalon which:

  1. Counts all the results on the page
  2. Verify, that the total count is not larger than 10

If I use your suggestion, how do I put it into use in this specific scenario?

I appologies for my many questions.

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I do not know the URL of your target Web page, I do not know how the HTML looks like, so I can not give you an entire solution for you out of box.

Please try to develop for yourself a test case, as far as you can, that implements the above 2 idea. You can leave a question as a comment into the script saying “here I want to do … how can I …”. Share the code here. Then I would be able to make an appropriate suggestion.

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In the above code log output, you have trElements. Assuming you can use it or something similar, then you can use the result to compare to. An example is:

trElements = findWebElements(search_result, 10)

if (trElements.size() > 10) {
WebUI.verifyTextPresent(“Test failed”, false, FailureHandler.STOP_ON_FAILURE)
}

If you don’t want to stop but do some other action, then do it within the if statement braces.

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assert trElements.size() <= 10
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Okay guys - thank you so much for your help!
I’ve come this far now:
List searchResults = WebUI.findWebElements(
SearchPage.search_result, 15)
println “searchResults.size()=${searchResults.size()}”

assert searchResults.size() <= 10

My testobject SearchPage.search has been defined like this:
def static search_result = Utils.createTestObject(‘class’, ‘item col-12’)

My HTML looks like this:
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When I execute the test, the printed result in the console is:
9: println(searchResults.size()=$searchResults.size())
searchResults.size()=9

I expected it to print out “10”. Is this because the console counts from 0? So: 0, 1, 2, … 9 = 10?

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Interesting. Although cycling through the list would start at zero, counting the items of the list should start at one. The below is from a Groovy tutorial website (the example shown on the site matches what we would expect to get: 10):

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/groovy/groovy_lists_size.htm

Obtains the number of elements in this List.

Syntax

int size()

Parameters

None

Return Value

The size of the list.

It’s like that kindergarten song: “One of these is not like the other…” Sorry, they all look the same, but I would make the change to 9 until something other tells what is different, and then you can tell us what the concern was.

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I noticed that the <li> elements are contained in a <div class="news-list">. The class name “news-list” implies that the list is dynamic, may occasionally change in a few seconds.
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@mgsserritzlev

Why not you just try again? Be sure the list is stable or not.

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Hmm. It seems pretty stable. Also, I increased the timout to 20 seconds - still the same result.

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You create the TestObject using the Utils class, createTestObject() method.
Could you share the source code of this class, this method?

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Problem solved! I was pretty goofy - the problem was, that my code executed another search after the first one - therefore, I’ve been looking on the second result on the site all the time (which contains 10 results) whilst looking on the out print which correctly printed 9 as the first search result contained nine hits. Boy, do I feel stupid. Thank you guys so much for your help!

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