Telerik Test Studio Tip: Be cautious while dealing with frames and Ajax

Telerik Test Studio will not automatically handle the frames like some other tools handle (Ex:Sahi). We have to specify explicitly  if the element belongs to frame. The most general problem which we will face while dealing with frames and Ajax is synchronization problem. The general mistake that most test developers tend to do is, we will write wait statements on element and assume that the Page DOM will be refreshed until element is found. We may not realise that between page and element we have a frame layer and only DOM of the frame will be refreshed. More important thing  we have to keep in mind is that, if we write wait statement on element in the frame, then system will assume that frame is loaded successfully. So if frame is not loaded then it will throw time out exception. It is better to have wait statement on frame before wait statement on element in the frame. Similarly,  keep wait for Ajax on Ajax calls to avoid synchronization problems.