SWEA Product FAQ
Q. What kind of technical support is available for SWEA?
Webius offers email support for evaluation and registered users of SWEA.
For further information see the
Support page.
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Q. How much time it takes to learn the product?
It usually takes few hours to start using SWEA.
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Q. Will I need to re-record my scripts every time my application changes?
SWEA separates script and script object binding to UI elements. In most cases only
UI binding should be updated to fix the script and there is no need
to spend additional time re-recording your test scripts.
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Q. How can I deploy my application?
SWEA is very easy to deploy. Just copy SWExplorerAutomationClent.dll, SWExplorerAutomation.dll
and SWExplorerAutomation.dll.lic (licensed versions) to a target machine and register SWExplorerAutomation.DLL using regsvr32.
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Q. Does SWEA work with every Web site?
The SWEA can automate almost any Web site. If you have found a Web site where SWEA
does not work please let us know and we will assist you in finding
a solution.
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Q. How SWEA is different from other Web automation applications?
SWEA unique architecture is based of Web page recognition. It makes SWEA automation
script to be resilient to UI changes.
The open source projects WATI[R|N|J] use Internet Explorer automation out of process
which doesn't allow full control over Internet Explorer and makes the automation
unstable.
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Q. Can I run SWEA script from ASP.NET or Service?
The SWEA script can be run from ASP.NET or Windows Service account. SWEA runs
IE under a user account which has user profile.
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Q. How do I extract information from
a tables and text content?
The SWEA HtmlContent control contains two data Extractors: XPathDataExtractor and
TableDataExtractor. Just define HtmlContent control and use the extractors to extract
the information.
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Q. Can I access a hidden input fields?
The web forms can contain internal data that is passed between pages
in hidden input fields. SWEA HtmlInputHidden control provides access to the hidden fields.
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Q. Can I script Message boxes and HTML Dialogs?
Message boxes and HTML dialogs are fully (modeless Html Dialogs are not supported)
supported by SWEA.
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Q. How can I get the current page URL?
The scene object has property RuntimeSceneInfo which contains information
about current loaded Internet Explorer page.
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Q. How can I capture the Internet Explorer page as Image?
Use Image GetExplorerWindowImage(int hWnd) and GetExplorerWindows
to capture image of Internet Explorer window.
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Q. How can I branch a script flow?
The SWEA unique feature is a script flow branching. ExplorerManager class contains WaitForActive function which waits for any of the passed scenes to be
activated. The function branches the script flow, based on the loaded Internet Explorer page.
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