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Performing action on multiple objects

At times, there are situations where we need to execute the same operation on multiple objects. Example of such situations is listed below
Checking/Unchecking all Check Boxes on a web page
Setting all the Text Boxes to blank value
Selecting the first possible value for every WebRadioGroup
The usual way to do it in Descriptive Programming (DP) is to [...]

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DP Part 1 - Overview

Introduction
This document demonstrates the usage of Descriptive programming in QTP 8.20. It also discusses situations where Descriptive programming can be used. Using Descriptive Programming automation scripts can be created even if the application has not been developed.

Descriptive Programming

Whenever QTP records any action on any object of an application, it adds some description [...]

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DP Part 2 - Converting OR based scripts to DP

This article discusses how we can convert an Object repository based script to DP based script. For this we will do a simple recording of entering some text on Google.com search text box and clicking the Google search button
The QTP generated script would look something like below

SystemUtil.Run "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"
Browser("Browser").Page("Page").Sync
Browser("Browser").Navigate "http://www.google.com"
Browser("Browser").Page("Google").WebEdit("q").Set "KnowledgeInbox"
Browser("Browser").Page("Google").WebButton("Google Search").Click

All the names [...]

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DP Part 4 - Common mistakes

This article would go over some common mistakes people make while using Descriptive Programming (DP) in QTP.
Using strings with Pattern
Let’s assume we want to click a link “Logout (Tarun)” on my web page. Two possible methods that can be used are
Method 1

Browser("miccclass:=Browser").Page("micclass:=Page").Link("text:=Logout (Tarun)").Click

Method 2

Set oDesc = Description.Create
oDesc("text").Value = "Logout (Tarun)"
Browser("miccclass:=Browser").Page("micclass:=Page").Link(oDesc).Click

Now both the above methods will [...]

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