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How to determine button is available or not [message #716648]

Thu, 18 August 2011 01:45

Joanna

Messages: 12
Registered: May 2011

Junior Member

Hi~
I want to use SWTBot as nightly automation test tool, but i encountered an issue. In our test, for some case a dialog box with 2 buttons will popup, for some case they will not popup, if dialog popups, we need click on a button and continue. Currently i tried to use if(bot.button("Yes").isVisible()) to determine whether there is dialog box or not, but WidgetNotFoundException came up, anyone knows how to handle this case?

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Re: How to determine button is available or not [message #718030 is a reply to message #716648]

Tue, 23 August 2011 04:46

Ketan Padegaonkar

Messages: 873
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 8/17/11 6:45 PM, Joanna wrote:
> Hi~
> I want to use SWTBot as nightly automation test tool, but i encountered
> an issue. In our test, for some case a dialog box with 2 buttons will
> popup, for some case they will not popup, if dialog popups, we need
> click on a button and continue. Currently i tried to use
> if(bot.button("Yes").isVisible()) to determine whether there is dialog
> box or not, but WidgetNotFoundException came up, anyone knows how to
> handle this case?

For any dialogs or popup windows that come up, a good way to make sure
they have focus is to perform shell.activate() before performing any
further actions on the shell.

-- Ketan

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Re: How to determine button is available or not [message #718118 is a reply to message #718030]

Tue, 23 August 2011 10:08

Benjamin Ratiarisolo

Messages: 16
Registered: January 2010
Location: Paris, France

Junior Member

In addition to Ketan's advice, I think your test API/code should actually handle and discriminate both cases, but this means that in your test scenarios you know when/if the dialog will pop-up or not.

If not, i.e. if the dialog randomly pops-up during your tests (weird BTW), then you can try the following:

Iterates on the SWTBot shells to check if one of them is matching the pop-up dialog title. Something like the below code might work:
Quote:

...
String name = ...; // YOUR POP_UP DIALOG'S TITLE
SWTBot bot = ...;
for (SWTBotShell shell : bot.shells()) {
if (shell.getText() != null && shell.getText().equals(name)) {
// HANDLE CASE WHEN DIALOG POPS UP HERE
...
break;
}
...
}
Catch the WidgetNotFoundException and do nothing in the catch block. I am not really in favor of this one as it will delay your test execution, plus you don't know if you enter the catch block because the dialog didn't pop-up or of another reason.