Health diagnostics and analytics for object repositories

A method for preemptively checking, within a user interface (“UI”) automated testing environment, a plurality of UI controls implemented in a web application, the method comprising:

• creating a UI map of the plurality of UI controls and corresponding attributes associated with each UI control, the plurality of UI controls and corresponding attributes stored in an object repository (“OR”), the UI map acting as a basis for one or more automation testing scripts for testing the web application, the UI map mapping a structure of the web application;
• accessing the plurality of UI controls and corresponding attributes via a UI map manager associated with the UI map;
• storing the UI map in a database associated with the web application;
• searching for duplicate locator values in the OR, the searching comprising:
• generating a first list comprising a plurality of tuples where each tuple includes a first part comprising a UI control from the plurality of UI controls and a second part comprising the corresponding locator value associated with the UI control;
• iterating through each tuple, the iterating comprising, for each tuple, determining whether a locator value in the tuple matches a locator value in one of a previous tuples;
• if the locator value in the current tuple does not match the locator value in one of the previous tuples, the method comprises proceeding to a subsequent tuple in the list;
• if the locator value in the current tuple does match the locator value in one of the previous tuples, the method comprises:
• highlighting, on the UI map, the current tuple and the previous tuple comprising the matching locator value;
• and
• recording the matching locator value, the UI control from the current tuple and the UI control from the previous tuple comprising the matching locator value as a record in a second list.

An object repository (“OR”) testing system for preemptively checking, within a user interface (“UI”) automated testing environment, a plurality of controls implemented in a web application, the web application testing system comprising:

• an OR for storing the plurality of UI controls and corresponding attributes associated with each UI control;
• a UI map mapping the plurality of controls and corresponding attributes stored in the OR, each UI map comprising key-value pairs, wherein each key is a UI control included in the webpage and each value is a locator value associated with the UI control;
• a UI map manager for managing the UI controls stored in the OR, the UI map manager configured to:
• generate a first list comprising a plurality of tuples where each tuple corresponds to a key-value pair;
• iterate through each tuple in the list, the iterating comprising, for each tuple, determining whether a locator value in the tuple matches a locator value in one of a previous tuples;
• if the locator value in the current tuple does not match the locator value in one of the previous tuples, proceed to a subsequent tuple in the list;
• if the locator value in the current tuple does match the locator value in one of the previous tuples:
• highlight, on the UI map, the current tuple and the previous tuple comprising the matching locator value;
• and
• record the matching locator value and the UI control from the current tuple and the control from the previous tuple comprising the matching locator value as a record in a second list.