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Background
This page documents an example test script on Morfik's own AJAX built website -- in fact on Morfik's own AJAX development product. The eValid script (see complete script in box below) exercises underlying web-based application activity within a Morfik trial account. We chose the Morfik Labs section because it has the most-difficult to test examples.

The key ideas illustrated in this example are:

• eValid can record a complex regression test for any Morfik-built application -- the Morfik website is an example of this -- virtually "out of the box".
• With a simple add-in command eValid can synchronize playback automatically with the AJAX methods used in the Morfik site (and in Morfik-built examples).
• With automatic synchronization based on DOM-internal properties you don't have to synchronize by imposing waits or delays.

Starting Page
Here is the starting page for the example script. This page is built with the Morfik development system.

Script Creation and Description
In operation, this script performs the functions described below. The salient points about this script are the following:

• The recording takes only a few seconds to make.
• The original recording, with included Wait times, plays back somewhat reliably, depending on the wait times to assure synchronization.
• Replacing the two Wait times after the two main steps with synchronization commands required editing in the commands and researching their parameters (with the PageMap).
• With the automatic synchronization commands, playback with a Wait Time Multiplier of 0.0 is possible without loss of synchronization.
• The script involves a top page, a second page and a third page to confirm synchronization.

1. Start a Recording from the designated Morfik webpage...

   
   

2. Await complete "Loading..." of all the starting webpage's details... (this requires later adding a synchronization step using "externalsynch"="READY".)

   
   

3. Click on the image to the left of "Live View" in the "FORUM" section and Await complete Loading... (this requires later adding another synchronization step using "readyState"="complete".)

   
   

4. Upon successful PLAYBACK of "morfik.evs", you should receive the following status window (it is a yellow screen because eValid's adaptive playback automatically retargeted DOM element indices)...

   
   

5. Completed syncing output from the event log...

   
   

   
   

Completed Script
Cut and paste the script "morfik.evs" shown from the area below into an eValid script window, and press play.

# Recording by eValid(TM) # Copyright © 2007 by Software Research, Inc. # Recording made on: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (IE 7.0.5730.11) ProjectID "Project" GroupID "Group" TestID "morfik" LogID "AUTO" ScreenSize 1280 960 DeleteCache DeleteCookies PlayValue _PM 0.1 InitLink "http://labs.morfik.com" # Wait 9537 # Manually added DOM sync script command to replace Wait... SyncOnSelectedObjProperty 0 0 "externalsynch" "READY" "id" "xfrmXappMain" "" #Delay 1000 #ElementClick 0 124 296 501 "xfrmXAppGallery_Image1" "" "" NAV # Manually replaced the above sequence with more advanced INDEX... commands. IndexFindElement 0 DOWN "id" "xfrmXAppGallery_txtVisitDemo" "" IndexElementClick 0 "" NAV SubFrameSet 1 "Forum" # Wait 10674 # Manually added DOM sync script command to replace Wait... SyncOnSelectedObjProperty 1 18 "innerHTML" "Summary" "readyState" "complete" "" Wait 1612 WindowClose 1 # End of script.

Additional Comments
If you use eValid to work with the Morfik site you may wish to be aware of the detailed Morfik Recording Protocol that we use on this application.