Repo item seen different in a minor version change.

dmconsulting1 · Post by **dmconsulting1** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:17 am

Ranorex seeing the same UI object differently in different builds. Here is the path for one version vs the other.

Version 1.3
/form[@processname='DrillApp']
/container[@controlname='toolStripContainer1']
/container[@controlname='contentPanel']
/container[@caption='']
//form[@controlname='Pages']
/?/?
/container[@controlname='calibrationPages1']
//container[@controlname='panel2']
/container[@controlname='selectedItemBox']
/container[@controlname='SelectedItemSummaryGroupBox']
//table[@controlname='itemGridView']
/row[@accessiblename='Row 0']
/?

Version 1.4
/form[@processname='DrillApp']
/container[@controlname='toolStripContainer1']
/container[@controlname='contentPanel']
/container[@caption='']
//form[@controlname='Pages']
//container[@controlname='panel2']
/container[@controlname='selectedItemBox']
/container[@controlname='SelectedItemSummaryGroupBox']
//container[@controlname='panel1']
/?/?
/container[@controlname='pnlControle']
/table[@controlname='itemGridView']
/row[@accessiblename='Row 0']
/?

What is the best way to handle this? Thanks.

dmconsulting1 · Post by **dmconsulting1** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:26 am

The view from Spy

Version 1.3

index0_1_3.png

Version 1.4

index0_1_4.png

odklizec · Post by **odklizec** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:38 am

Hi,

Could you please upload a Ranorex snapshot (not screenshot) from both versions? Have you asked developers if they changed something in UI. Maybe even different version of UI library?

dmconsulting1 · Post by **dmconsulting1** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 2:00 pm

Yes, it looks as if something was changed (again) without telling me about it. It looks like I have to create a second version of the repo items.

odklizec · Post by **odklizec** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:29 pm

Hi,

This is quite normal situation and something you will have to live with

Developers will NEVER inform you about potential UI changes

In my opinion, all you have to do is to make the xpath a bit shorter and so less prone to changes. It's hard to tell without seeing the snapshot, but I would personally go with something like this (instead of creating another version of xpath):

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/form[@processname='DrillApp']/container[@controlname~'toolStripContainer']/container[@controlname='contentPanel']//form[@controlname='Pages']//container[@controlname='SelectedItemSummaryGroupBox']//table[@controlname='itemGridView']/row[@accessiblename='Row 0']

dmconsulting1 · Post by **dmconsulting1** » Tue Nov 17, 2020 6:07 pm

While going through it, I noticed for some reason one of the test cases used a different repo item than the rest and it worked. Still not sure why Ranorex chose to build the path the way it did, but I changed all the references to the new reference and both version now work.

Old Version:
/form[@processname='DrillApp']
/container[@controlname='toolStripContainer1']
/container[@controlname='contentPanel']
/container[@caption='']
//form[@controlname='Pages']
//container[@controlname='panel2']
/container[@controlname='selectedItemBox']
/container[@controlname='SelectedItemSummaryGroupBox']
//container[@controlname='panel1']
/?/?
/container[@controlname='pnlControle']
/table[@controlname='itemGridView']
/row[@accessiblename='Row 1']

New Version:
/form[@processname='DrillApp']
/container[@controlname='toolStripContainer1']
/container[@controlname='contentPanel']
/container[@caption='']
//form[@controlname='Pages']
/?/?
/container[@controlname='calibrationPages1']
//container[@controlname='panel2']
/container[@controlname='selectedItemBox']
/container[@controlname='SelectedItemSummaryGroupBox']
//table[@controlname='itemGridView']
/row[@accessiblename='Row 1']

You can see they are close, just one chose to use wildcards in a different location and that makes it work.

Not sure why, but it does.

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