| replaceafill | aelkner, i'm back | 00:03 |
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| aelkner | hey, i was wondering what you know about css versus xpath in our selenium tests | 00:04 |
| aelkner | css is so much nicer to use, but is it any slower? | 00:04 |
| replaceafill | aelkner, i think css is faster than xpath | 00:05 |
| replaceafill | i've been using css more lately | 00:05 |
| replaceafill | i only use xpath for complex things | 00:05 |
| replaceafill | like this div that contains that other element and so on | 00:06 |
| aelkner | so you don't know of any speed issues | 00:06 |
| replaceafill | aelkner, not really, haven't done any benchmarks though :) | 00:06 |
| aelkner | ok, that's cool | 00:07 |
| aelkner | btw, the case you just mentioned is easy in css, 'div.someclass someelement' | 00:07 |
| replaceafill | no, i was talking about conditions | 00:07 |
| aelkner | so much easier than "//div['@class='someclass']//someeleent | 00:07 |
| aelkner | well, as long as the condition is class or id, css works well | 00:08 |
| aelkner | and the syntax is so much less likely to trip one up | 00:09 |
| replaceafill | sel = 'td[not(contains(@class, "placeholder"))]' | 00:09 |
| aelkner | so yeah, there are still cases for using xpath | 00:10 |
| replaceafill | yep | 00:10 |
| aelkner | anyway, i'm really glad about the css helper | 00:10 |
| * replaceafill too | 00:10 | |
| aelkner | i was thinking of adding another helper to Browser, for building the absolute file name | 00:11 |
| aelkner | passing it __file__ and the filename | 00:11 |
| aelkner | but perhaps that's overkill | 00:11 |
| replaceafill | i don't think it's very hard to create the path in a test | 00:11 |
| aelkner | it's not, it's four lines, including import os | 00:12 |
| aelkner | i just like economy of lines of code | 00:13 |
| aelkner | it's not important | 00:13 |
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