Slow object identification on moving web objects

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Slow object identification on moving web objects

Post by rka » Mon Aug 10, 2015 1:25 pm

Hello again Ranorex Support,

our customer has a web based application with a circle (see screenshot). The circle has several elements that need to be validated in the run time, like changing colors or clicking on one of the grey parts to open detailed information. Changing the circle elements or the circle rotation speed happens via web services.
As long as the circle stands still, getting properties of any of those items is working fast. But as soon as the circle starts to move (it needs ~15 minutes for one complete round), Ranorex takes a long time (> 10 seconds per action or even more) to read out properties or perform any action on the object. Our testcase took more than 15 minutes to run, which could be done in under 2 minutes.

Is there any best practice to work with moving objects or does Ranorex have any possibilities I could use to work with that accelerate the testing process?

Working with CaptureBitmap is not an option because I also need to check html properties of the grey boxes.

Example of the circle:
circle.png
I nearly forgot:
Ranorex Version 5.3.3 on Windows Server 2012 R2

Best regards,
Rafael
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Re: Slow object identification on moving web objects

Post by Support Team » Wed Aug 12, 2015 3:20 pm

Hello Rafael,

Depending on how the circle is rendered and animated, the element tree might be changing, which would make the RXpaths only work when the circle is on a specific location.

Can you please provide a snapshot file of the element in question? That should allow us to find the cause of the issue.

Thanks,
Hansel

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Re: Slow object identification on moving web objects

Post by Monica » Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:57 am

A snap shot for the moving object is attached!.
moving wheel snapshot.rxsnp
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Re: Slow object identification on moving web objects

Post by Monica » Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:03 am

A snapshot for the moving object is attached.

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Re: Slow object identification on moving web objects

Post by rka » Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:10 am

Hi Hansel,

sorry for the delay in replying. Here is a snapshot of the object.

Best regards,
Rafael
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Re: Slow object identification on moving web objects

Post by odklizec » Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:49 am

Hi,

At first, have you tried your test scripts with latest 5.4.1 (even in trial mode)? Just to check if there is any speed difference.

Next, could you please post an example path you are using to identify the individual elements?

The good thing is that the numbered sectors contain InnerText with the actual number of each sector (from 1-32). It's probably better way to identify the numbered sectors by these numbers instead of the non-descriptive "embernnnn" unique IDs. On the other hand, using unique IDs could speed up the element search.

Are these unique IDs persistent? I mean, could you please verify if let's say section "32" is always inside div "ember1187"?
section32_ember1187.png
Here is an example path you can use to identify section "32" using its innertext...

Code: Select all

/dom[@domain='10.150.1.246:8080']//div[@id~'ember']/div[@innertext='32']
section32.png
And this is the path you can use to identify the large "grey" section above section 32...
/dom[@domain='10.150.1.246:8080']//div[@id~'ember']/div[@innertext='32']/../div[@class='box']/div[@class='ember-view box-inner']
largesection32.png
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