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auto fill web forms with drop down menus

Asked by Vineet on 2011-08-31

I am testing a web-based form that has few textboxes, dropdowns and checkboxes. I can manage auto-filling textboxes but its really cumbersome to test a form with dropdown menus, especially when the drop down contains all the different states.

Currently, the script uses a pattern match to find the form menu, left-click, then do some pattern matching on the state name and click on it.

Does Sikuli have something like the auto-form addon for browser to make this easy?

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Last query:: 2011-08-31

Last reply:: 2011-09-21

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said on 2011-08-31:

Sorry, no.

To handle dropdowns is one of the hardest jobs in Sikuli. Whenever I tried this, I ended up in using keyboard simulation to navigate to the appropriate list entry. But this only works in cases where you know the entries of the list in advance.

For these cases in browsers, it is sometimes easier to use Selenium or some javascript injection.

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Enix Shen (enix12enix) said on 2011-09-21:

Yes, selenium or watir(if you use ruby) will make it easy.

http://seleniumhq.org/

http://watir.com/