Create an Offline Model

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Overview

2. How to create an offline model ?

1. Overview

This article provides you the steps to create a project to create an offline model using node configuration.

2. How to create a project to create an offline model ?

Perform the following: 

1. Login to algoshack.net and select algoQA button on the Status bar. 
2. In the Create project window, enter the appropriate name and select Automation type from the Automation drop-down list.
3. Click Create Project button to view the main canvas screen.
4. Alternatively, you can either browse for the scraped file in the CSV format or drag-and-drop it to view the automatic placement of nodes. Click the "Browse files or drag them here" button or the cloud icon to upload the file.
5. From More dropdown select Upload Scraped data to upload the downloaded .csv file (scraped file).
6. By clicking on + icon the nodes can be added to the canvas.
7. Click the each node to edit. In the Node Name text box, enter the same name as the page name. Similarly, add the appropriate node names for the remaining nodes. Node Name can accept alphanumeric, single space between words and underscore, starting with alphabet.
   Ensure to provide unique node name, if you don't provide a unique name, then a error messages will be displayed saying Node name already exists.
   
   Note that when you are configuring the node, make sure to enter a unique feature name to avoid duplicates. This is necessary when configuring a nested feature or entering a feature name for different nodes or the same node within a scenario.
   
   
8. Upon successful node configuration in, In test design screen you can see all the UI elements within the feature. By default, one feature will be configured.
9. In the required feature, update the attributes of UI element, such as control name, control value, navigation, business rules, test data or control value and locator. Similarly, repeat the step to update the attributes for all other UI elements and click on submit for the scenario to be created.