qtp summary

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QuickTest Window / Key Elements of QTP

1) Test Pane

2) Active Screen

3) Data Table

4) Debug viewer

5) Information pane

6) Missing Resources pane

7) QTP commands

III) Object Repository1) Software objects

2) Types of object in QTP

a) Runtime Objects

b) Test Objects

c) Utility Objects

d) Automation Objects

3) Object Repository

a) Local Repository

b) Shared Repository

4) Operations on Object Repository

a) Adding Objects

b) Renaming Objects

c) Deleting Objects

d) Associating Object Repositories to an Action

e) Exporting Local Objects

f) Merging Repositories

g) View Options

h) Spying Objects

i) Importing and Exporting Repositories using XML

IV) QTP Testing Process

1) Planning

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a) Analyzing the AUT

b) Implementing Automation Framework

c) Creating/Selecting Test cases

d) Collecting Test Data

e) Object Identification Configuration

i. Normal Identification

1. Mandatory Properties

2. Assertive Properties

ii. Smart Identification

1. Base filter Properties

2. Option filter properties

iii. Ordinal Identifier

iv. Making Tool Settings Global

2) Generating the basic Test

a) Recording

i. Normal Recording

ii. Analog Recording

iii. Low Level Recording

iv. Record and Run Settings

b) Keyword driven methodology/Shared object repository method/Preparing the script manually

c) Descriptive programming/Programmatic Descriptions

i. Entering Programmatic Descriptions Directly into Statements

ii. Using Description Objects for Programmatic Descriptions

iii. Retrieving Child Objects

iv. Using the Index Property in Programmatic Descriptions

v. Creating Checkpoints Programmatically

3) Enhancing the Test

a) Inserting Check points

i. Standard Checkpoint

ii. Text Checkpoint

iii. Text Area Checkpoint

iv. Bitmap Checkpoint

v. Database Checkpoint

vi. Accessibility Checkpoint

vii. XML Checkpoint (From Application)



viii. XML Checkpoint (From Resource)

ix. Page Checkpoint

x. Image Checkpoint

xi. Table Checkpoint

b) Inserting Output values

i. Standard Output value

ii. Text Output value

iii. Text Area Output value

iv. Database Output value

v. XML Output value (From Resource)

c) Adding Comments

d) Synchronization

i. Inserting Wait Statement

ii. Inserting Synchronization Point

iii. Increasing Tool Default Synchronization Time

iv. Sync method (only for web)

v. Selecting appropriate method

e) Parameterization

i. Data Driven Testing through Loop statements

ii. Dynamic Test Data Submission through Looping

iii. Data Driven Testing through Data Table

iv. Importing Test Data from External files

v. Creating a Database, Tables and Entering Data

vi. Creating DSN

vii. Importing Test Data from Databases

f) Inserting Programmatic statements

i. Inserting Conditional Statements

ii. Inserting Loop statements

iii. Using VB Script Built-in Functions

g) Generating steps through Step Generator

h) Inserting Transaction points

i. Start Transaction

ii. End Transaction

i) Enhancing Tests with the windows API

4) Debugging the Test

a) Debug Commands



i. Step Into

ii. Step Over

iii. Step Out

b) Inserting/Removing Brake Points

c) Watching variables

d) Changing Variable values

5) Running the Test

a) Normal execution

b) Test Batch execution

i. Test batch formation

ii. Batch execution

iii. Partial Batch execution

6) Analyzing the Test Results

a) Test Result Viewer

b) Analyzing Test Results

c) Exporting Test Results

d) Test Results Deletion

7) Reporting Defects

a) Manual Defect Reporting

b) Tool based Defect Reporting

c) Integration with Quality Center

V) QTP Advanced Features1) Regular expressions

2) Environment Variables

a) Built-in Variables

b) User Defined Variables

c) Defining, modifying and associating environment variables

3) Methods

a) QTP Methods

b) VB Script Methods

4) Actions

a) Types of actions

i. Non-reusable Actions

ii. Re-Usable actions

iii. External Actions



b) Creating an Action

c) Splitting Actions

d) Renaming an Action

e) Deleting an Action

f) Making an Reusable/Non-Reusable

g) Calling an existing Action

h) Copying an Actions

i) Action Parameters

5) Functions

a) Preparing Procedures

b) Associating Procedures to QTP tests

c) Modifying Procedures

d) Calling Procedures

6) Dynamic Handling of Object Repositories

a) Loading Repositories directly through Utility Object

b) Finding Repository Position

c) Removing Repositories

7) Data Driven Testing through Scripting

a) Importing Data from Flat files

b) Importing Data from spread sheets

c) Importing Data from Databases

i. Ms Access

ii. SQL Server

iii. Oracle

8) File System Operations

a) File system Object

b) Creating Files

c) Reading Data

d) Writing Data

e) Creating Folders

f) Creating Drives

9) Recovery Scenarios

a) Trigger events

i. Pop-Up window

ii. Object State

iii. Test Run Error



iv. Application Crash

b) Recovery Operations

i. Keyboard or Mouse Operation

ii. Close Application Process

iii. Function Call

iv. Restart Microsoft Windows

c) Creating Recovery Scenarios

d) Associating Recovery Scenarios

10) Virtual Object Configuration

a) Virtual Object Manager

b) Defining a Virtual Object

c) Removing or Disabling Virtual Object Definitions

11) Test Automation Frameworks

a) Automation Framework

b) Record & Playback or Linear Framework

c) Modular Driven framework

d) Keyword Driven framework

e) Hybrid driven Framework

12) Automation Object Model

VI) VB Script for QTP1) Introduction

a) Introducing VB Script

b) Windows Script Host (WSH)

c) Crating a script with Note pad

d) Hosting Environments & Script engines

e) Available Script engines

2) Comments

a) Purpose of Comments

b) Syntax

c) Comment/Uncomment a block of statements

3) VB Script Variables

a) Declaring Variables

b) Option Explicit Statement

c) Naming restrictions for Variables

d) Scope of Variables



e) Life time of Variables

f) Assigning values to Variables

g) Scalar Variables and Array Variables

h) Dimensional Arrays

i) Dynamic Arrays

4) VB Script Data Types

a) Variant Sub types

5) VB Script Operators

a) Operator precedence

b) Arithmetic Operators

c) Comparison Operators

d) Concatenation Operators

e) Logical Operators

6) Input/Output Operations

a) Inputbox Function

b) Msgbox Function

7) Constants

a) Creating Constants

b) Using Constants

c) Modifying Constants

8) Conditional Statements

a) If…Then…Else Statement

b) Select Case Statement

c) Making Decisions Using If...Then...Else

d) Running a Statement if a Condition is True (single statement)

e) Running Statements if a Condition is True (multiple statements)

f) Running Certain Statements if a Condition is True and Running Others if a Condition is False

g) Deciding Between Several Alternatives

h) Executing a certain block of statements when two / more conditions are True (Nested If...)

i) Making Decisions with Select Case

j) Other Examples

9) Looping Through Code

a) Loop statements

b) Do Loops



c) While…wend statement

d) For…Next statement

e) For Each…Next statement

10) Other Statements

11) Procedures

a) Sub Procedures

b) Function Procedures

c) Getting Data into and out of procedures

d) Using Sub and Function procedures in code

12) VB Script Built-in Functions

a) Conversions

b) Dates/Times

c) Formatting Strings

d) Input/Output

e) Math

f) Miscellaneous

g) Rounding

h) Strings

i) Variants

13) Methods

14) Objects

a) ADODB connection

b) Dictionary

c) Excel Application

d) File system Object

e) Network

f) Shell

g) Word Application

h) XML Document

15) Classes

16) Keywords

17) Errors

a) VB Script Runtime Errors

b) VB script Syntax Errors

18) VBScript syntax rules and guidelines


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