Quickest way to get ID and Name of all fields in single go

Question

Currently, I am using the traditional way i.e. 'Inspect Element' (or Firebug or IE Developer) for getting value of ID and Name attributes of any field present over page for which I am creating test cases. But, it is sometimes very time consuming especially when there are 100s of fields over a page/form. Sometimes, I use the record method abd then getting these attributes from the recorded test cases (but this too is a kind of work around).

Is there any quick way of getting ID and Name attributes of all fields (like TextBox, Dropdowns, CheckBox etc.) present on a web application page in one go.

Answer 1

Since you are using CodedUI for this I would write something like this.

public static void GetAllElements(BrowserWindow bw)
{
var a = bw.GetChildren().Where(x => x.GetProperty("TagName").ToString() == "TD");
            foreach (var control in a)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(control.Name);
                Console.WriteLine(control.GetProperty("Id"));
            }
}

Also if you are interested in saving time while hand coding make as many generic methods if you can

public static void ClickHtmlButton(string buttonidentifierType, string buttonIdentifier)
{
    var button = new HtmlButton(bw);
    if buttonidentifierType == "ID"
    {
        button.SearchProperties.Add("Id", buttonIdentifier);
    }
    if buttonidentifierType == "InnerText"
    {
        button.SearchProperties.Add("InnerText", buttonIdentifier);
    }
    Mouse.Click(button);
}

Answer 2

It is not in one go, but one list per element type, using driver.FindElement(By.TagName("tag")) http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp (as @ilm correctly suggested)