KnowledgeInbox (By Tarun Lalwani)

Is Smart Identification really smart?

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I have always been against the use of QTP Smart Identification (SI) feature whether it is development time to when the script are actually deployed for live testing. The reason behind this dislike is not personal but something logical. Most people think that Smart identification should be enabled when deploying the test scripts for live [...]

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Tags used - algorithm, Exist, login, Object, password, SI, Smart Identification, SmartIdentification, use

Exist returns False even when the object exist

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Exist method of QTP sometimes returns False even when the object exists. There could be 3 possible reasons in my opinion
Possible cause #1
One reason for this issue could be used of wrong properties to identify the object. Ex - you might be using a html id which has been changed now.
Possible cause #2
There are multiple [...]

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Tags used - creationtime, Exist, False, index, location, Object, True

Identifying custom windows control

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QTP identifies windows object using their classes. All default class map to a specified window Test object in QTP. Ex – The “Edit” class maps to WinEdit test object, “Static” class maps to the Static Test object.
Objects inside applications developed using standard windows API can be easily identified and automated through QTP.
But at times applications [...]

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Tags used - Custom, identification, identify, map, mapping, Object, Object identification, windows, WinObject

DP Part 4 - Common mistakes

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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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Tags used - cannot, Class, Class Name, Common, Descriptive, Descriptive Programming, identify, micclass, Object

DP Part 2 - Converting OR based scripts to DP

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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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Tags used - Convert, Descriptive, Descriptive Programming, Object, Object Repository, OR, Repository

QTP FAQ, Tips & Tricks

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The article provides answers to most frequently asked question on Quick test pro 8.2. It also provides some tips and tricks. A must read for people working on QTP.
Data Table
Two Types of data tables

Global data sheet: Accessible to all the actions
Local data sheet: Accessible to the associated action only

Usage:

DataTable("Column Name",dtGlobalSheet) for Global data sheet
 
DataTable("Column Name",dtLocalSheet) [...]

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Tags used - ADODB, Checkpoint, Connect, connection, Database, DataTable, dtGlobalSheet, dtLocalSheet, Environment, err, Error, GetROProperty, GetTOProperty, Global, Library, Local, Object, output, outputvalue, Recovery, Runtime, Test, Value