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QTP keyword based Framework

In this doc we will create a small framework. With help of this framework, we will be run two

tests with help of keywords

In Framework, we will also see

a. How to create functions?

b. How to create qtp functions library file?

c. How to import functions library file in code?

d. How to add excel file as data sheet in code?

e. How to export data sheet file as excel file?

Prerequisite:

a. Knowledge of QTP working…

Architecture of Keyword Framework(what we will develop)

Where

AUT (Application under Test): it means application which his being automated in this case.

Object Repository: It is repository of the objects from AUT. QTP recognizes the objects in

the application through this object Repository.

Driver script: This is main script which drives the automation. This is where the whole logic is

written.

User Defined Function Library: It is Function Library which has common functions written in

it. These Functions will use in this framework.

Application Test Data: Application Test Data is the test data which will be tested by this

framework. Application Test data could be anything like data table, excel file, XML file or

database.

Generate Test Execution Report: Generate excel files where you can see test cases either

will be fail or Pass.

Follow steps to create small keyword based framework…

1. Create new test in QTP

2. Give the name to test

And click on Create button to create test.

3. Change the recording setting. Please select first option of web and windows

application in recording window..

4. Click on start record button to start recording.

5. Now open Flight GUI manually. Click on start all programs HP software HP

Unified Functional TestingSample Applications Flight GUI

6. Input the Agent name and password to Flight GUI login window

And click on OK button to login in Flight Reservation window.

7. After logged in, fill the info of user (Date of flight, Fly from, fly to, select flight,

name, Class )

After insert all info, click on Insert Order button to insert new order…

8. logout from the application by file Exit;

And stop recording.

9. After stop the recording, you can see your code, which will be similar like below

snapshot..

10. Now open one notepad and copy the below code to create StartApp(),

Login(),InsertDate(),InsertFlightLocation(),SelectFlight(),InsertCustomerName(),Ins

ertOrder(),Logout() functions in notepad

Function StartApp()

End Function

Function Login(login_info)

End Function

Function InsertDate(dat)

End Function

Function InsertFlightLocation(flight_station)

End Function

Function SelectFlight()

End Function

Function InsertCustomerName(cus_name)

End Function

Function InsertOrder()

End Function

Function Logout()

End Function

StartApp function is for start the Flight application.

Login function is for login into flight reservation application.

InsertDate function is for insert Date for order.

InsertFlightLocation is for insert flight stations

SelectFlight function is for select flight from the list

InsertCustomerName function is for Insert Customer name and class of Ticket

InsertOrder function is for insert new order.

Logout function is for Logout from reservation window.

11. copy first statement from qtp editor which open the application…

And paste into StartApp () function and add one below statement in StartApp() function to

return from StartApp() function

StartApp=”Pass”

after added statements, StartApp function will be similar as below snapshot.

Function StartApp()

SystemUtil.Run "C:\Program Files\HP\Unified Functional

Testing\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe","","C:\Program Files\HP\Unified Functional

Testing\samples\flight\app\","open"

StartApp = "Pass"

End Function

12. Add below code inside Login function

login_info = Split(login_info, "-",-1)

Copy the selected statements from qtp editor, which will login into reservation window

paste selected statements in Login function.

Now change Dialog(“Login”).WindEdit("Agent Name:").Set "qaonline"

To

Dialog(“Login”).WindEdit("Agent Name:").Set login_info(0)

And

Dialog(“Login”).WindEdit("Password:").SetSecure "5334f584andsomething"

To

Dialog(“Login”).WindEdit("Password:").Set login_info(1)

copy the below code and paste into Login function

to return value from Login function

wait(4)

If Window("Flight Reservation").Exist Then

Login = "Pass"

else

Login = "Fail"

End If

If condition will check that reservation window will appear after logged in.. if yes code will

pass otherwise code will fail. After copy statements in Login function, the code inside Login

function will be similar to below Login function

Function Login(login_info)

login_info = Split(login_info, "-",-1)

Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Agent Name:").Set login_info(0)

Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Password:").Set login_info(1)

Dialog("Login").WinButton("OK").Click

wait(4)

If Window("Flight Reservation").Exist Then

Login = "Pass"

else

Login = "Fail"

End If

End Function

13. Copy the selected statement from qtp editor(value after Type keyword will be

different in your script in below statment)

Change Window(“Flight Reservation”).ActiveX("MaskEdBox").Type “yourenterdate”

To

Window(“Flight Reservation”).ActiveX("MaskEdBox").Type dat

And paste into InsertDate function and add below statement into InsertDate function to

return value from InsertDate function

InsertDate = "Pass"

After added statements the code will be similar to below code

Function InsertDate(dat)

Window(“Flight Reservation”).ActiveX("MaskEdBox").Type dat

InsertDate = "Pass"

End Function

(Note: date what you will pass greater than today’s date)

14. Add below statement

flight_station = Split(flight_station, "-",-1)

Copy the selected statement from qtp editor(flight stations may be different in your

script)

Now change Window(“Flight Reservation”).WinComboBox("Fly From:").Select “anyselect”

To

Window(“Flight Reservation”).WinComboBox("Fly From:").Select flight_station(0)

And

Window(“Flight Reservation”).WinComboBox("Fly To:").Select “anyselect”

To

Window(“Flight Reservation”).WinComboBox("Fly To:").Select flight_station(1)

And paste into InsertFlightLocation function and add below statement into

InsertFlightLocation function to return value from InsertFlightLocation function

InsertFlightLocation= "Pass"

After added statements the InsertFlightLocation function code will be similar to below code

Function InsertFlightLocation(flight_station)

flight_station = Split(flight_station,”-”,-1)

Window("Flight Reservation").WinComboBox("Fly From:").Select flight_station(0)

Window("Flight Reservation").WinComboBox("Fly To:").Select flight_station(1)

InsertFlightLocation = "Pass"

End Function

15. Copy the selected statement from qtp editor

And paste into SelectFlight function and add below statement into SelectFlight function to

return value from SelectFlight function

SelectFlight = "Pass"

After added statements the SelectFlight function code will be similar to below code

Function SelectFlight()

Window("Flight Reservation").WinButton("FLIGHT").Click

Window("Flight Reservation").Dialog("Flights Table").WinButton("OK").Click

SelectFlight = "Pass"

End Function

16. Copy the selected statement from qtp editor(customer name may be different)

Now change Window("Flight Reservation").WinEdit("Name:").Set "whatyouenter"

To

Window("Flight Reservation").WinEdit("Name:").Set cus_name

And paste into InsertCustomerName function and add below statement into

InsertCustomerName function to return value from InsertCustomerName function

InsertCustomerName = "Pass"

After added statements the InsertCustomerName function code will be similar to below code

Function InsertCustomerName(cus_name)

Window("Flight Reservation").WinEdit("Name:").Set cus_name

Window("Flight Reservation").WinRadioButton("Business").Set

InsertCustomerName = "Pass"

End Function

17. Copy the below statement from qtp editor

And paste into InsertOrder function and add below statement into InsertOrder function to

return value from InsertOrder function

InsertOrder = "Pass"

After added statements the InsertOrder function code will be similar to below code

Function InsertOrder()

Window("Flight Reservation").WinButton("Insert Order").Click

InsertOrder = "Pass"

End Function

18. Copy the selected statement from qtp editor

And paste into Logout function and add below statement into Logout function to return value

from Logout function

Logout = "Pass"

After added statements the Logout function code will be similar to below code

Function Logout()

Window("Flight Reservation").WinMenu("Menu").Select "File;Exit"

Logout = "Pass"

End Function

19. Now save the notepad as keyword_custom_function.qfl in desktop where qfl is

extension of this file. (.qfl means QuickTest Functional Library which is local for

QTP)

Here are some snapshots of function library file

20. Now create a excel file name of testcases.xls and save in desktop. The content of this

file should be same as below snapshot of a file.

In above snapshot, There are two test cases

a. Login & Logout

b. Book flight

you can see that these tests have their description, TestCaseID, Execute, Result

Here

Description : Description of Test case

TestCaseID : Unique ID to each test case which will use to read steps of test case according

TestCaseID of steps.

Execute: Indicate that if Test case’ execute value is yes then that test case will execute if

Testcase’ execute value is no then that test case will execute. You can see in above snapshot

both test cases have yes value in execute column.

Result: Indicate that test case is Pass or Fail.

21. Now create a excel file name of steps.xls and save in desktop. The content of this file

should be same as below snapshot of a file.

In above snapshot, There are many keywords.

you can see that these keywords have their attributes description, TestCaseID, Data, Result

Here

Description : Description of step

TestCaseID : TestcaseID is reference of Test cases which are in testcases.xls file which will

use to read steps of test case according TestCaseID of steps.

Example: look in testcases.xls file, first test case Login & logout has TestcaseID as TC1. Now

see in steps.xls file, Three keywords have same ID, this means when first test case Login &

logout will call, these three keywords will perform in script. We will compare keywords in

our code and call the functions according to keyword.

Data : Keyword has own data like Login keyword has Agent Name and Password which are

separated by hyphen(-).

InsertDate keyword has date in format(first two characters are of month, next two characters

are of date and last two characters are year)

InsertFlightLocation keyword has Data as flight from station and flight to station, both are

separated by hyphen(-)

So Here Denver-London=> Denver is flight from station and London is flight To Station

InsertCustomerName keyword has customer name as data

Result: Indicate that step is Pass or Fail.

22. Now replace the code of action by copy below code (comments in green color and

bold) and paste into action of Testcase in qtp editor

Option Explicit 'to implicit declaration of variables

Dim testcases ' for all testcases

Dim steps 'for all steps

Dim caseid ' for test case id

Dim res ' for result

Dim i,j 'for iterations

Dim login_info, date1, cus_name, flight_station

' add two data sheets(testcases and steps) at the run time

DataTable.AddSheet "testcases"

DataTable.AddSheet "steps"

'load function library what we created function library file, filepath can be

different

LoadFunctionLibrary("C:\Documents and Settings\QA Tools

Testing\Desktop\keyword_custom_function.qfl ")

' import the testcases list and steps for above sheets, excel file path can

be different

DataTable.ImportSheet " C:\Documents and Settings\QA Tools Testing\Desktop

\testcase.xls",1,"testcases"

DataTable.ImportSheet " C:\Documents and Settings\QA Tools Testing\Desktop

\steps.xls",1,"steps"

'get the test cases from testcase sheet

testcases = DataTable.GetSheet("testcases").GetRowCount

'iterate the testcases one by one

For i = 1 To testcases

'set the cursor on particular ith row on testcase sheet

DataTable.GetSheet("testcases").SetCurrentRow(i)

'read Execute column of testcases sheet of ith row.Execute is yes for

testcase then it will execute

If DataTable.Value("Execute","testcases")="yes" Then

'retrieve test caseid

caseid = DataTable.GetSheet("testcases").GetParameter("TestcaseID")

'get the all rows of steps test sheet

steps = DataTable.GetSheet("steps").GetRowCount

'iterate the steps one by one

For j = 1 To steps

'set the cursor on particular jth row on steps test sheet

DataTable.GetSheet("steps").SetCurrentRow(j)

'check if step id is same as case id then go to case with its keyword

If DataTable.Value("TestCaseID","steps")=caseid Then

'retreive the keyword of jth row from steps sheet

Select Case Datatable.Value("keyword","steps")

'if keyword is StartApp then call StartApp and save the return value

to res

Case "StartApp"

res = StartApp()

'if keyword is Login then call Login function and save the return

value to res

Case "Login"

login_info = Datatable.Value("Data","steps")

res = Login(login_info)

'if keyword is InsertDate then call InsertDate function and save the

return value to res

Case "InsertDate"

date1 = Datatable.Value("Data","steps")

res = InsertDate(date1)

'if keyword is InsertFlightLocation then call InsertFlightLocation

function and save the return value to res

Case "InsertFlightLocation"

flight_station = Datatable.Value("Data","steps")

res = InsertFlightLocation(flight_station)

'if keyword is SelectFlight then call SelectFlight function and save the

return value to res

Case "SelectFlight"

res = SelectFlight()

'if keyword is InsertCustomerName then call InsertCustomerName

function and save the return value to res

Case "InsertCustomerName"

cus_name = Datatable.Value("Data","steps")

res = InsertCustomerName(cus_name)

'if keyword is InsertOrder then call InsertOrder function and save the

return value to res

Case "InsertOrder"

res = InsertOrder()

'if keyword is Logout then call Logout function and save the return

value to res

Case "Logout"

res = Logout()

End Select

'save the result in Result column of jth step in steps data sheet what

we added in beginning

DataTable.Value("Result","steps")= res

End If

Next

'save the result in Result Column of ith testcase in Testcase data sheet

what we added in beginning

If res="Pass" Then

DataTable.Value("Result","testcases") = "Pass"

else

DataTable.Value("Result","testcases") = "Fail"

End If

End If

Next

' export the sheets after execution of all test cases to different xls files...

DataTable.ExportSheet "C:\Documents and Settings\QA Tools

Testing\Desktop\exer_testcase.xls","testcases"

DataTable.ExportSheet " C:\Documents and Settings\QA Tools Testing\Desktop

\exer_steps.xls","steps"

23. Now execute the testcase and see the execution flow..

24. Here is some execution snapshots

25. Now See exported files

Keyword steps are passed.

Test cases are passed