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Summary
This page presents eValid's solution to testing and validating Microsoft's search and mapping solution Maps Live. It shows how Example Script #1 works. Please see the Top Level Description for background information about this Example Script.

Script Description
The developed script involves the following steps:

1. Go to the starting page, www.virtualearth.com.

2. Synchronize playback on the arrival of the complete page. The page is ready for a request.

3. Type in a Search Maps request for "Moscone Convention Center San Francisco, CA". Click "Search Maps" to start the search.

4. Synchronize on the listing's positioning of the "#" balloon before performing any further results validation.

5. Validation of text is performed on the left hand side display to confirm that the results listing does contain the expected search item.

6. Before we can Click on the "#" balloon results of the map for further details, we need to assure that the balloon is fully rendered and visually present. This is done with another synchronization step.

7. Synchronize on the arrival of the result page. This synchronization requires that the readyState be complete at a particular page element.

8. Validation of the "#" balloon's container text using a MatchString command to confirm that the map also matches the expected search item.

Example Script #1
Here is the eValid script developed as described above.

# Recording by eValid V8 Build #264, Build Date: (Mar 27 2008) # Copyright (c) 2008 by Software Research, Inc. # Recording made on: Microsoft Windows Vista (IE 7.0.6000.16643) ProjectID "Users" GroupID "eValid" TestID "mapslive1" LogID "AUTO" ScreenSize 1440 900 FontSize 0 DeleteCache DeleteCookies # Step 1: Startup... InitLink "http://www.virtualearth.com/" # Step 2: To assure page is ready (AJAX) replace Wait with DOM Sync... #Wait 19407 SyncOnSelectedObjProperty 0 227 "className" "MSVE_PoweredByLogo " \ "MSVE_PoweredByLogo_ie" "readyState" "complete" "" # Step 3: Make the search request... InputValue 0 85 "TEXT" "sb_form_q" "q" "Moscone Conven" \ "tion Center San Francisco, CA" "" "" Wait 374 SubmitClick 0 86 "sb_form_go" "go" "" "" # Step 4: To assure results have arrived, replace Wait with URL Sync... #Wait 17902 SyncOnURL "http://maps.live.com/BrandFinder.ashx" # Step 5: Validate text is found... ValidateSelectedText 0 356 0 "747 Howard St," "" # Step 6: Wait 3946 FollowLink 0 330 "1" "http://maps.live.com/#" "" NO_NAV Wait 4387 FollowLink 0 893 "street" "javascript:VE_SearchManager.SetCenterAndZoom(16);" \ "VE_Analytics.LogSearchNavAction(VE_Analytics.PgName.Map, 'Search " \ "Result ERO - click on Zoom to street', VE_Analytics.PgName.ERO, '1' ," \ " 'YN114x2001180', '')" "" NO_NAV #Wait 3790 SyncOnSelectedObjProperty 0 207 "id" "pin_YN114x2001180" "nameProp" "pushin hover" "" #FollowLink 0 186 "2" "javascript://pushin hover" "" NO_NAV # The above ORIGINAL script command replaced with more flexible MOTION commands: IndexFindElement 0 DOWN "id" "pin_YN114x2001180" "" IndexFollowLink 0 "" NO_NAV # Step 7: #Wait 3135 FollowLink 0 207 "1" "javascript://pushin hover" "" NO_NAV SyncOnSelectedObjProperty 0 0 "id" "container" "readyStateValue" "4" "" # Step 8: MatchString 0 "(415) 974-4000" 0 "" # End of script.

Screen Shots
Here are screen shots that show the progress of playback of this script.

• This is the starting screen, after Script Step 1 and while the DOM synchronization commands in Script Step 2 are running:

  

• The search request for "Moscone Convention Center" in San Francisco, CA is issued in Script Step 3.

  

• After the search is accepted, eValid does a DOM synchronization to make sure that results are present so that they can be validated, Script Step 4, and Script Step 5 in script.

  

• There are lots of results for "Moscone Convention Center" and this step confirms the response found at "747 Howard Street", Script Step 6, followed by navigation to that information on the map display, Script Step 7.

  

• Finally, we validate that the popup area on the map has the right content, "747 Howard Street", Script Step 8.