Testing the cell value of a html table with Geb/Spock

[Ian M]

Hi,

Say you have a html data table headed by years across the top, and
each row with a td, with the month name in the 1st column has anyone
managed to come up with a generic means of testing that accessing with
the value via some generic parametrized function/test.

i.e. we really want to get the value (tableID=myReport,column=2008,
row=Mar)

| |2007|2008|
|Jan|943|645|
|Feb|234|187|
|Mar|129|165|
|April|103|671|

Test from Spec:
myReport_March_2008_Value.text()=="€2,307"

Page defintion:
myReport_March_2008_10Value{ $("#myReport table tbody tr:nth-child(2)
td:nth-child(2)") }

Disadvantage of the page definition is that if the table gains/looses
columns - years in this case, then the test will fail due for reason
not due to the application code. I guess that's what some would call a
brittle test? Either way, I think it would be easier to specificy
table cell evalutors with a col,row heading rather than an integer.
This would hopefully make it easier to write, and then more people
will write tests :)

Would be great to get your thoughts.

Cheers,

Ian.

p.s. Sorry for any confusion over which element of Spock/Geb etc I'm
referring to here - I'm new! :)

[Luke Daley]

Hi Ian,

I have replied over on the Geb list.

This question is specific to Geb and not related to Spock.

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