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The TestCafe docs lack any but the simplest requirements.

The web app i wrote in 2008-9 is XHMTL 1.0 syntax generated by Freemarker templates under SpringFramework 2.5.x, that have lots of forms and pages with excel like tables full of buttons,links,form+input, etc in each row of the tables.

It uses a onclick="..." javascript for conditional button behaviors that do input validation on the form inputs, and other such, alert()s, etc. I used css / class attribute only for formatting, but lots of id="xxx" and getElementById("xxx") in the javascript and update the DOM from .js functions. I did not user any javascript frameworks like Node.js or jquery. I did use iFrames for printout frames.

I also have a few cases of Select menu B options map is dependent on a Select Menu A choice, which causes dynamic replacement of the menu B options map. The app has more than 150 unique pages, 5 user roles. The app works in Firefox, Safari and IE11/Edge, Chrome.

Q: Can TestCafe test a WebApp implemented in this outdated manner?

Q: Can it handle the dynamic DOM modification made via javascript functions invoked by onclick=" func()" and onselect=" func()" of button and select tags?

Q Can TestCafe Selector() use element ids to find() elements? as the web app generates unique ids for link, button, input, etc, tags in rows of the tables via freemarker template variables.

Alex Skorkin
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At present, TestCafe may have issues during testing of XHMTL pages (see this page for more information). I am not familiar with the Tomcat Web application. However, if this web application can be opened in a browser, TestCafe can operate with it.

mlosev
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Q1) I don't have any insight on this question.

Q2) Yes. Look into async, await, and promises.

Q3) Yes. Any kind of attribute. You mentioned find() specifically, so look into: https://testcafe.io/documentation/402750/reference/test-api/selector/find

Justin Braden
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