Squish tip of the week: Scripting with the help of the Squish Script Console

When manually scripting or debugging a script, the Squish Script Console provides immediate output and syntax confirmation as well as other valuable data.

Use the Squish Script Console to

• • Validate syntax or determine/confirm a statement’s output
    
    
    
  • Test a function’s return value

• • Lookup HTML object DOM paths (Web)

    # Using symbolic name:
    test.log(waitForObject(":DIV_content").
    hierarchicalQualifiedName())
    # Using real (multi-property) name:
    test.log(waitForObject("{id='content' tagName='DIV'}").
    hierarchicalQualifiedName())
    
    

  • Switch Application Context or the active application
    
    
    

• • And more…

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