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Unable to find an element in Browser of the Android emulator using Appium and C#

I want to automate mobile web site testing on Android emulator using c# and Appium. There is a simple test scenario I want to automate for the start:
1. Start Browser
2. Find an element
3. Clear it
4. Send keys
I've got a problem with the second step. Every time MSTest tries to execute FindElementById line in the code below, I get the error:
"An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters."
[TestClass]
public class UnitTest1
{
private DesiredCapabilities _capabilities;
private AndroidDriver _driver;
public void InitializeDriver()
{
Console.WriteLine("Connecting to Appium server");
_capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
_capabilities.SetCapability("deviceName", "test_02");
_capabilities.SetCapability(CapabilityType.BrowserName, "Chrome");
_capabilities.SetCapability(CapabilityType.Version, "5.0.1");
_capabilities.SetCapability(CapabilityType.Platform, "Android");
//Application path and configurations
_driver = new AndroidDriver(new Uri("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), _capabilities);
}
[TestMethod]
public void TestMethod1()
{
InitializeDriver();
var element = _driver.FindElementById("com.android.browser:id/url");
element.Clear();
element.SendKeys(#"http://stackoverflow.com/");
}
}
Input string for the method I've got from UIAutomator that is shown below.
I tried several combinations for the FindElementById input method:
"com.android.browser:id/url"
"id/url"
"url"
but no luck.
My environment:
Windows 8.1
Appium 1.3.4.1
ChromeDriver 2.14.313457
Android Device Monitor 24.0.2

Sorry for misleading !!!
In case of testing web apps in browser the elements should be located as usual elements on the web page ( not as some classes like android.widget.EditText and android.widget.Button). So try for example the following and you will see some result:
var element = _driver
.findElementByXPath("//input[#id='lst-ib']");
To get locators you should run the browser on your desktop, open the page and use some tools/extensions like Firebug in Firefox or Firebug Lite in Chrome browser.

Try these 2 statements:
var element = _driver.FindElement(By.Id("com.android.browser:id/url");
driver.findElementsByXPath("//*[#class='com.android.browser' and #index='1']");

Update ! The following approach is not for web testing:
Could you try to find the element using xpath?
#FindBy(xpath="//android.widget.EditText[contains(#resource-id, 'url')]")
So in your case you can try the following:
var element = _driver.findElementByXPath("//android.widget.EditText[contains(#resource-id, 'url')]");
Update: in case of testing web apps (not native) you should use web page locators instead of Android classes.

Reflections for ReGIS graphics screen scraping in C# .NET API

I'm trying to create a windows forms application that can scrub screen information from a Reflections window. The problem is that it's an older version of reflections from back when WRQ still owned the app. Since Attachmate have taken it over, I can't find any documentation on the .net API related to this older version.
What I have so far is this:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
openApp();
}
private void openApp()
{
// Create a new instance of Reflection.
Reflection4.Session reflection = new Reflection4.Session();
reflection.Visible = true;
}
So this is fine for opening a new Reflections window, but I want it to run the screen scrape on a window that is already open.

Below is a way to get the first active Reflection4.Session using Marshal.GetActiveObject(). I found the progid for Reflection4 using the ProgID Key website on MSDN. With that I found that the following code works:
Reflection4.Session session = (Marshal.GetActiveObject("Reflection4.Session.8") as Reflection4.Session);

Using class WebBrowser to open IE and fetch HtmlElement

I'm using Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate and am currently using a Coded UI Test Project. When using it for a Console application, I get the error "An unhandled exception of type 'System.Threading.ThreadStateException' occurred in System.Windows.Forms.dll" when executing the first line of code below, but I don't get it when using my coded UI test project.
The end intention of my code is to launch a web browser. Click some links, and read information from certain ID fields from within the browser. If someone knows of a better or simply working implementation of doing that, I am all for it.
In my current implementation, internet explorer is never launched.
WebBrowser web = new WebBrowser(); //create object web browser
web.CreateControl();
web.Visible = true;
web.ScriptErrorsSuppressed = true;
web.Navigate("www.gogle.com"); //Shouldn't this launch IE & go to google.com?
HtmlDocument doc = web.Document;
HtmlElement el = doc.GetElementById("hplogo");//get htmlelement on the google logo
//do something with info from el.
web.Dispose(); //de-allocate

From MS KB841295 you can add the STAThread() attribute to your main entry point of your program and this should resolve that specific exception.
[STAThread()]
static void Main(string[] args) {
WebBrowser web = new WebBrowser(); //create object web browser
//...
}

How do I automate SAP GUI with c#

I would like to automate an SAP GUI window using the C# language. I am able to do it in VBScript but code reuse is horrible. Besides Id like to use threading instead of having 80 or more processes running. Where can I find any documentation and samples of how to do this? Here is the code I am working with. Basically, the problem I am facing is - how do I make a connection to SAP GUI then create an SAP GUI on the fly then start making transactions and entering text in some fields.
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using White.Core.Factory;
using White.Core.UIItems.Finders;
using White.Core.InputDevices;
using System.Threading;
using System.Diagnostics;
using SAP.Connector;
using SAP;
namespace SAP_Automation
{
class Program
{
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
string ExeSourceFile = #"C:\Program Files\SAP\SapSetup\setup\SAL\SapLogon.s8l";
White.Core.Application _application;
White.Core.UIItems.WindowItems.Window _mainWindow;
var c = SAP.Connector.Connection.GetConnection("**");
var c = new SAPConnection("ASHOST=*; GWHOST=*; GWSERV=*; ASHOST=*; SYSNR=00;USER=user; PASSWD=**;");
c.Open();
}
}
}
}
As you can see I can create a connection but I dont know how to create a session to the GUI and start entering text in fields. Any examples and samples would be appreciated.

This might be necro-threading but I was in a similar situation where I work. We needed SAP GUI Automation for testing purposes that could integrate with the rest of our homegrown automation platform written in C#. I helped create a proposal for one solution that took advantage of a SAP provided library for GUI automation that could be used as the basis for an automation layer for SAP.
Does the following file exist on your SAP file installation? x:\Program Files\SAP\FrontEnd\SAPGui\sapfewse.ocx?
If so, add it to Visual Studio (or whatever IDE you're using) as a reference. It is basically a class library which contains a bunch of SAP specific objects that will allow you to interact with. It is very effective because it exposes most of what you need from the SAP GUI. We discovered in other attempts that a lot of the objects in SAP were not available.
This is an early proof of concept I did. Start SAP with a connection string, enter credentials, navigate to a transaction code.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using SAPFEWSELib;
namespace SAPGuiAutomated
{
//created a class for the SAP app, connection, and session objects as well as for common methods.
public class SAPActive
{
public static GuiApplication SapGuiApp { get; set; }
public static GuiConnection SapConnection { get; set; }
public static GuiSession SapSession { get; set; }
public static void openSap(string env)
{
SAPActive.SapGuiApp = new GuiApplication();
string connectString = null;
if (env.ToUpper().Equals("DEFAULT"))
{
connectString = "1.0 Test ERP (DEFAULT)";
}
else
{
connectString = env;
}
SAPActive.SapConnection = SAPActive.SapGuiApp.OpenConnection(connectString, Sync: true); //creates connection
SAPActive.SapSession = (GuiSession)SAPActive.SapConnection.Sessions.Item(0); //creates the Gui session off the connection you made
}
public void login(string myclient, string mylogin, string mypass, string mylang)
{
GuiTextField client = (GuiTextField)SAPActive.SapSession.ActiveWindow.FindByName("RSYST-MANDT", "GuiTextField");
GuiTextField login = (GuiTextField)SAPActive.SapSession.ActiveWindow.FindByName("RSYST-BNAME", "GuiTextField");
GuiTextField pass = (GuiTextField)SAPActive.SapSession.ActiveWindow.FindByName("RSYST-BCODE", "GuiPasswordField");
GuiTextField language = (GuiTextField)SAPActive.SapSession.ActiveWindow.FindByName("RSYST-LANGU", "GuiTextField");
client.SetFocus();
client.text = myclient;
login.SetFocus();
login.Text = mylogin;
pass.SetFocus();
pass.Text = mypass;
language.SetFocus();
language.Text = mylang;
//Press the green checkmark button which is about the same as the enter key
GuiButton btn = (GuiButton)SapSession.FindById("/app/con[0]/ses[0]/wnd[0]/tbar[0]/btn[0]");
btn.SetFocus();
btn.Press();
}
}
//--------------------------//
//main method somewhere else
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
SAPActive.openSAP("my connection string");
SAPActive.login("10", "jdoe", "password", "EN");
SAPActive.SapSession.StartTransaction("VA03");
}
You're right there is not a lot of documentation on this subject. Below are a few sources that helped me get started
-Original source of our plan
http://scn.sap.com/thread/1729689
-Documentation on the API (For VB and javascript but the general rules and objects are identical). Definitely read the portion on the SAP GUI Runtime hierarchy. It'll answer a lot of questions.
http://www.synactive.com/download/sap%20gui%20scripting/sap%20gui%20scripting%20api.pdf

It is very important here to understand what UI Automation can do and what its limitations are. It was designed to automate a user interface's capabilities. You can click buttons, enter text in a textbox, move windows, etcetera, whatever a user can do using the mouse and keyboard.
What it can not do is bridge the tall wall that the operating system puts up between processes. A wall that prevents a process from accessing the memory of another process. This is a very important security and safety feature. It for one prevents a process from accessing data that should be private to a process. Like a password. And for another it stops a crashing process from affecting other processes that run on the machine. You can kill a process with Task Manager and everything keeps motoring along happily as though nothing happened.
A consequence of this is that creating a SAPConnection object in your program is a connection that only your program can use. There is no mechanism to somehow pass this object to another process with UI Automation. At best you could use the data you retrieve from the connection to affect what buttons you click.
The kind of process interop that would allow sharing data between processes is well supported in .NET. Low-level approaches are socket and named pipes, high-level are Remoting and WCF. Older programs have COM Automation support, Office is a good example of that. That however requires two to tango, both programs must be written to take advantage of it.
So if you are trying to automate an existing SAP application and this app does not otherwise explicitly support automation, the kind that an Office program supports, then you are pretty much stuck with just filling text boxes and clicking buttons.

You can automate any kind of application (browser, desktop, java, etc) with UiPath.
Here's a tutorial on how to automate data entry, menu navigation and screen scraping on SAP.
You can
use it from code (SDK). It has a tool that auto-generates C# code
create and run workflows (visual automation) directly from UiPath Studio.
Here's a sample of the C# auto-generated code:
// Attach window menu
UiNode wnd3 = UiFactory.Instance.NewUiNode().FromSelector("<wnd app='sap business one.exe' cls='#32768' idx='1' />");
// Click 'Business Pa...' menu
UiNode uiClickBusinessPamenu_3 = wnd3.FindFirst(UiFindScope.UI_FIND_DESCENDANTS, "<ctrl name='Business Partners' role='popup menu' /><ctrl automationid='2561' />");
uiClickBusinessPamenu_3.Click(88, 9, UiClickType.UI_CLICK_SINGLE, UiMouseButton.UI_BTN_LEFT, UiInputMethod.UI_HARDWARE_EVENTS);
// Attach window 'SAP Business'
UiNode wnd4 = UiFactory.Instance.NewUiNode().FromSelector("<wnd app='sap business one.exe' cls='TMFrameClass' title='SAP Business One 9.0 - OEC Computers' />");
// Click 'Add' button
UiNode uiClickAddbutton_4 = wnd4.FindFirst(UiFindScope.UI_FIND_DESCENDANTS, "<wnd cls='ToolbarWindow32' title='View' /><ctrl name='View' role='tool bar' /><ctrl name='Add' role='push button' />");
uiClickAddbutton_4.Click(13, 24, UiClickType.UI_CLICK_SINGLE, UiMouseButton.UI_BTN_LEFT, UiInputMethod.UI_HARDWARE_EVENTS);
Here's how workflow automation of SAP Business One menus, buttons or typing looks like:
And finally the SDK documentation is located here... in case you don't want to use workflows.
Note: I work at UiPath. You should also try other automation tools like Automation Anywhere, WinAutomation, Jacada, Selenium, Ranorex use them side by side and choose the one that suits better your needs.

Open Office Communicator Session from C#

I am working on a WPF application and I wish to open sip:Username#company.com links. I am able to open mailto links using the following code:
private void btnSendEmail_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
try
{
string mailURL = String.Format("mailto:{0}", UserDetails.EmailAddress);
Process.Start(mailURL);
Close();
}
catch
{
// Handle exception
}
}
Although, I am unable to open sip: links in a similar way. What I am trying to achieve is to open a new chat session with a user, like I am able to do when I follow sip: links from Outlook.
Any ideas?
Edit: I ended up using the CommunicatorAPI. Messenger.InstantMessage() seems to work for me. More info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787232.aspx

Using Process.Start works fine on my system (with Microsoft Lync 2010, a newer version of Communicator):
void Main()
{
Process.Start("sip:username#company.com");
}
Running the above code results in a new chat window opening. The only exception is when I enter my own user name, in which it starts composing a new Outlook e-mail message to myself. What happens when you use this (maybe also try omitting the following call to Close).

You probably need to associate a program with the "sip" uri scheme. Try this: how do I create my own URL protocol? (e.g. so://...)

if you have Lync or Office Communicator installed, they should respond appropriately to the sip: uri scheme. Also, tel:, callto: etc. For reference, the full list is here.
Is this not working for you from a WPF app? Does it work for you from a basic html page?

I ended up using the CommunicatorAPI. Messenger.InstantMessage() seems to work for me. More info here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb787232.aspx

The following code probably didn't work for you because you were trying to IM yourself.
Process.Start("sip:username#company.com");