Validate HTML popup load a PDF file

[Romio]

Hi there,,
In our application we have HTML popup load a PDF file.
My question is there is any way to validate the data in this HTML popup that loaded a PDF file...???

Regards,
Romio
Q.A.

[Daniel]

Are you looking to validate the content of the PDF, or just strictly inspect the HTML of the popup window?

As far as I know, there is no out of the box solution for Test Studio and validating the content of a PDF.  There are open source libraries out there (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfsharp/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/clown/) that you could use coded steps on to do some validation if necessary.

[Ivaylo]

Hello Romio,

As Daniel stated if you are looking to validate the content of the PDF file that will not be possible with Test Studio. This is because a PDF file loaded in the browser does not have a DOM structure like a traditional web page, so Test Studio cannot read or verify against its contents.
Thank you for your understanding.

@Daniel thank you for assisting the customer, I have updated your telerik points accordingly.

Regards,
Ivaylo
Telerik

[Paulo]

I had this issue in last days. I have to do some validations in my application user guide, that opens on a new IE window.

Since Test Studio is unable to work with PDFs, I've managed an external solution that validates the browser URL.

For that, if you use Visual Studio, in the project references add the COM reference Microsoft Internet Controls. This DLL is incompatible with Test Studio, since it isn't a .Net reference, but it will be created a compatible dll, in mt case on my project folder/obj/debug. The dll is Interop.SHDocVw.dll

Now, all you have to do is add this reference to the project references in Test Studio, and from now on you have access to that PDF popup window

That's an example code:

01.// Will look in iexplore processes for the expected URL.
02.SHDocVw.ShellWindows shellWindows = new SHDocVw.ShellWindows();
03.foreach (SHDocVw.InternetExplorer ie in shellWindows)
04.{
05.        filename = System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(ie.FullName).ToLower();
06.        if (filename.Equals("iexplore") )
07.        {
08.                Console.WriteLine("Web Site   : {0}", ie.LocationURL);
09.
10.                userGuideFound = true;
11.                // Closes IE window.
12.                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
13.                ie.Quit();
14.                System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(500);
15.                break;
16.        }
17.}

Regards,
Paulo

[Ivaylo]

Hello Paulo,

Thank you for your input. I am quite sure it will be valuable.

I have updated your telerik points accordingly.

Regards,
Ivaylo
Telerik