Tosca DUH! moment: April

Test Automation is - in the end - software development. Everyone who has ever dabbled in software development is familiar with being stuck on things that in the end turned out to be very trivial and make you feel like: DUH!. I'll be logging my Tosca DUH! moments in this post. It'll be good as therapy in any case, and seeing all these items listed under each other might provide me with some insights.

• Fed 'Buffername' instead of '{B[Buffername]}' to the parameter field of a ReusableTeststepBlock.
• Circumstance: the buffername was used in a query, which - with the wrong data - produced zero results and this resulted in a confusing 'invalid column name' error.
• Mitigation: not easy. There is no easy debug mode in Tosca to quickly see all PL or B values. Will have to be mindful of this.
• If SteeringParameter FireEvent=change doesn't do the job check if other 'events' are being listened to and set the FireEvent parameter to them / add the FireEvent to them.
• If you want to have {Click} position the mouse-pointer somewhere else than in the middle: write a customization where you override the 'ActionPointer' property.;
• TypeReference.IsAssignableFrom(Type c)
• is TRUE if the TypeReference can be assigned to an instance of Type c
• Shorthand notation to define an IEnumerable object:
• IEnumerable<Obj> collection = new[] {Obj1, Obj2, Obj3, etc.}