rogeliop wrote:How does your "adaptive playback" feature differ from "fuzzy matching"?
Fuzzy matching means that a lookup is done based on a regular expression in such a way tht only a part of a string has to match in order for the whole string to be declared a "fuzzy match".
eValid's adaptive playback uses some of that kind of matching, but involves a lot more. At test playback time the eValid engine actively interrogates the DOM in order to find out, according to pre-set algorithms, what is the "right thing to do" in terms of test playback.
Adaptive playback's goal is to make a brittle test more flexible...to save the value of the test when it might otherwise be lost for unimportant reasons.
Along the way, eValid uses "fuzzy matching" [in effect, but done differently than with a pure regular expression match] but the whole concept goes a great deal deeper than simply finding approximate-match strings.
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by rogeliop » Thu Nov 03, 2011 4:25 pm