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Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP

By : Ashish Bhargava
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Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP

By: Ashish Bhargava

Overview of this book

<p>As software testing is maturing, the focus is shifting towards test automation. The key is to learn and grow skills in framework designing and start contributing to project organization goals.</p> <p>Through a helpful mix of conceptual and practical aspects, you will learn everything you need to know related to the implementation of frameworks using QTP. Through simple examples, you will gradually develop the skills needed to execute concepts and code blocks used to design and implement the test automation framework.</p> <p>This tutorial-based guide demonstrates an easy way to implement concepts to create a portable framework across the various versions of QTP. You will learn about the automation lifecycle and gradually develop technical concepts related to each phase. Within a short amount of time, you will be able to deal with challenges in test automation. "Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP" uses a simple, yet elegant approach and gives the reader all the skills and knowledge they need to implement the framework.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Automation Life Cycle and Automation Goals
Index

Chapter 2. Essentials of Automation

In Chapter 1, Automation Life Cycle and Automation Goals, we learned about the test automation life cycle and automation goals. The basic features of the test automation are record and replay. These features allow the user to play scripts many times and compare expected values with actual values. This approach is simple and requires little or no knowledge of coding and can be applied to any supported application that has a graphical user interface. One should be familiar with basic QTP features, such as recording, replay, OR (Object Repository) creation, checkpoints, synchronization, actions, reporting, error handling, parameterization, and configuration. One should also know how to use environment variables to make the script complete and reusable. This chapter deals with recording or creating the test scripts, script creation life cycle, QTP features, and various ways of using these features to make complete reusable scripts. The intent of this chapter...