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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

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<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>

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP
Designing and Implementing Test Automation Frameworks with QTP
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Automation Life Cycle and Automation Goals
Automation Life Cycle and Automation Goals
The test automation life cycle
Summary
2
Essentials of Automation
Essentials of Automation
About QTP
The QuickTest object model
Test objects
Object repositories
Record and replay
Script development
Summary
3
Basic Building Blocks for Creating Frameworks
Basic Building Blocks for Creating Frameworks
VBScript – key features for creating code blocks
Checkpoints
Output value
Synchronization
Descriptive programming
Regular expressions
Error handling
Recovery scenarios – an overview
Summary
4
Understanding and Creating Frameworks
Understanding and Creating Frameworks
Programming with VBScript
Introducing frameworks
Introduction to the data-driven framework
Introduction to the modular framework
The keyword-driven framework
The hybrid framework
Business Process Testing
Application-independent framework
Summary
5
Deploying and Maintaining Frameworks
Deploying and Maintaining Frameworks
Predeployment
Maintenance
Summary
6
DOM- and XPath-based Framework in Web Applications
DOM- and XPath-based Framework in Web Applications
Document Object Model
Using XPath
Summary
7
Capturing the Lessons Learned
Capturing the Lessons Learned
Preparing for the lessons to be learned
Collecting and documenting learning
Best practices for collecting lessons learned
Discussing lessons learned
Storing and sharing lessons learned
Summary
Index
Index

Descriptive programming

QTP identifies an object by its properties that are stored in the OR. When the object description is created in the test script, the approach is called descriptive programming. In this method of script creation, objects are not stored in the OR.

Descriptive programming can be achieved in two ways:

  • Static programming: The object's description is directly provided into the script

  • Dynamic programming: The object's description is created using QTP's description object

Static programming

Examples of static descriptive programming are shown as follows:

'Add object description as property value pair
Dialog("regexpwndclass:=Login").Activate
Dialog("regexpwndclass:=Login").WinEdit("regexpwndclass:=Edit","attached text:=AgentName").Set "ashish"
Dialog("regexpwndclass:=Login").WinEdit("regexpwndclass:=Edit","attached text:=AgentPassword").Set "mercury"
Dialog("regexpwndclass:=Login").WinButton("regexpwndtitle:=OK").Click
'The multiple property and value pair is provided in the object...
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