Impact Analysis

CloudQA identifies objects uniquely, so you don’t need to understand HTML or the DOM structure. Impact Analysis centralizes element analysis across your test suites, which reduces maintenance and makes changes to existing elements easy to spot.

You can search by an element’s CSS selector, or by a page’s URL. Either way, you see which tests a change affects and can replace the old selector with the new one so tests keep running.

Replace a changed selector

Use this when an element’s CSS has changed and the element appears in several test cases.

1. Open Edit Steps for a test case and find the element whose CSS changed.
2. Edit the step and enter the new CSS. Use Pick CSS in the extension to find it.
3. Select the zoom button on the right of the element.
4. A new page shows the old and new CSS.
5. Find the test cases and step numbers that use the old selector.
6. Select Replace to update the steps with the new selector.

Find the tests for a page

Use this when a page in your application has changed and you want to review the tests that cover it.

1. Enter the page URL.
2. Find the test cases for that page.
3. Select Edit to see the page’s elements highlighted in blue.