Best way to Locate Element

[Deelip_Kumar_Saxena]

Hi

I am new to Testing automation but managing testing team who does automation. most of automation are Sales force based application

We have found that sometimes, the IDs or xpath of element (which we have used as locator) gets changed and because of that the scripts fails

what is permanent solution to handle these type of failures?

How can we ensure the scripts does not fails when ID or xpath gets changed?

Please guide me as the xpath and ID changes are creating major problem for us and we are not getting value of automation as the scripts used to fail because of ID or Xpath changes?

Thanks with Regards
Deelip

[Mate_Mrse]

Short answer: there is no permanent solution.

Improved answer: get better locators.

I presume when you say ID’s are changing, that means that ID’s are generated dynamically. In that case, I suggest trying parametrization. I believe the following articles and discussions could be helpful:

https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/parameterize-webmobile-test-object-properties.html

addProperty('xpath' ...) with String as xpath?

I tried to parameterize my testobjects like it’s described here: https://docs.katalon.com/display/KD/Manage+Test+Object#ManageTestObject-ParameterizingTestObject It works fine for to get //*[@class = attribute] with the code below TestObject to = findTestObject('bm/color/colorcode') to.addProperty('class', ConditionType.EQUALS, attribute, true) However it does not work with xpath for me so far… The xpath I want to get: //*[@class = ‘P0751’]//h4[contains(text(),‘Alpine white.’)] by this: Te…

How to find xpath for element using another dynamic element

In the below scenario i have an element with dynamic value 1251408 and i have to select the option from the dropdown element towards its left i.e i have to select the user corresponding to element 1251408 only… What needs to be done in this case??? The element with value 1251408 is not clickable though. [Untitled]

https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/tutorials/data_driven_testing.html#what-is-data-driven-testing

[Deelip_Kumar_Saxena]

Hi

thanks for your response

Yes, we have observed, ID is getting generated dynamically so we started using xpath and thought xpath is unique and will not change but it also changes sometime…so there is not guarantee that the test scripts will not fail. it will fail if the xpath gets changed

could you please elaborate more on this below? Parameterization is not available with which selection method? if it is not available then xpath is the only locators to use or we can use any others locators which are reliable

Warning Parameterizing Web/Mobile Test Object Properties is only available with Basic Selection Method

Thanks with Regards
Deelip

[Marek_Melocik]

Hello,

there are few tips to write better selectors (XPaths in this case)

https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/tutorials/xpath_katalon_studio_tips.html

[Mate_Mrse]

@Deelip_Kumar_Saxena

Warning Parameterizing Web/Mobile Test Object Properties is only available with Basic Selection Method

I’m not really sure what are the docs referencing here, but you can use parametrization with both Xpath and CSS locators.