Re: [TFUI] GUI testing using Capture playback

Anthony Williams <anthony_w.geo-/[email protected]> Mon, 08 Aug 2005 09:30:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.test-first-user-interfaces
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Phlip <[email protected]> writes:
>  So a CR tool that bonds to a property of a control,
> such as its resource ID, must bond at a lower level than some GUI
> Toolkits on Windows permit programmer control. Some Toolkits, such as
> a Web browser, might change the resource ID on the fly, while
> preserving some higher level control property. So the less fragile
> your CR tool, the more closely it must bond with a specific GUI
> Toolkit.

As a concrete example of this: if you don't specify menu IDs when using .NET,
then they are generated on the fly. This means that the same menu option can
have different IDs *during the same run of the application*, if the menu
changes in any way.

Anthony
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