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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

Output value


An output value is a value that is retrieved during the test execution from DataTable or saved in a variable or parameter. When the output value is executed, the Output method places the object's property value into the prespecified column (which is defined when the test was created) and is retrieved through the DataTable. Later, this value is used to verify the expected and actual value; thus, we can use the output value as a checkpoint.

The following code snippet creates a checkpoint using the output values:

Window("WinFlight").Activate
Window("WinFlight").ActiveX("MaskEdBox").Type "111114"
Window("WinFlight").WinComboBox("FlyFrom:").Select "Frankfurt"
'Insert an output value to verify if button is enabled or not
Window("WinFlight").WinButton("FLIGHT"). Output CheckPoint("FLIGHT")
'The first column represents from where value is retrieved and the second column represents sheet Global/local
outval= Datatable("WINFLIGHT_Button",dtGlobalSheet)
'Verify the expected and actual values...