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Previously Mercury Interactive Product Now Taken Over by HP

The document provides an overview of HP QuickTest Professional (QTP), previously known as Mercury Interactive product. It discusses the key features of QTP, the different panes in QTP like Test Pane, Active Screen etc. It also summarizes the different modes of recording, object recognition, object repository, checkpoints, parameters, debugging and handling exceptions in QTP.

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Previously Mercury Interactive Product Now Taken Over by HP

The document provides an overview of HP QuickTest Professional (QTP), previously known as Mercury Interactive product. It discusses the key features of QTP, the different panes in QTP like Test Pane, Active Screen etc. It also summarizes the different modes of recording, object recognition, object repository, checkpoints, parameters, debugging and handling exceptions in QTP.

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PREVIOUSLY MERCURY

INTERACTIVE PRODUCT
NOW TAKEN OVER BY HP
WHY QTP?
• MORE USER FRIENDLINESS
• MORE FEATURES – MORE
CHECKPTS
• BEST FOR .NET AND OTHER WEB
BASED APPLICATION
• KEYWORD DRIVEN TESTING
SOLUTION
DIFFERENT PANES IN
QTP
• TEST PANE – SCRIPTS ARE
GENERATED
• ACTIVE SCREEN – SNAP SHOTS
• DATA TABLE –
PARAMETRIZATION
• DEBUGGER – BREAKPOINTS,
WATCHLIST, COMMANDS
WHAT TYPE OF TOOL
IS QTP
• RECORD AND PLAYBACK TOOL
• IT HAS ADDITIONAL FEATURES LIKE
SYNC PT, CHECK PT, OUTPUT VALUES
• IT HAS STEP GENERATOR – BUILT IN
FUNCTIONS
• IT HAS FUNCTION DEFINITION
GENERATOR – USER DEFINED
FUNCTIONS
ADD-INS
• ADD-INS ARE SIMILAR TO HEADER FILES IN
C LANGUAGE
• THEY ARE INCLUDED AT THE BEGINNING OF
TESTING SESSIONS SO THAT CLASSES,
FUNCTIONS OF PARTICULAR APPLICATION
ARE LEARNT BY QTP
• FOR TESTING JAVA APPLICATION, JAVA
ADDIN HAD TO BE INCLUED.
• ADDIN MANAGER ENABLES TO MANAGE THE
ADDINS INCLUSION.
TYPES OF VIEWS IN
TEST PANE
• TWO TYPES
• KEYWORD VIEW – ACTIONS ARE
GENERATED IN TABULAR FORMAT
SIMILAR TO MANUAL TEST
CASES
• EXPERT VIEW – ACTIONS ARE
GENERATED IN VB SCRIPTING
MODES OF RECORDING
• NORMAL MODE – RECORDING BASED
ON PROPERTIES OF GUI
• ANALOG MODE – MOUSE MOVEMENTS,
CLICKS, KEYBOARD STROKES
• LOW LEVEL – COMBINATION OF ABOVE
TWO – MAINLY FOR RECORDING
CUSTOM OBJECTS
OBJECT RECOGNITION
• MANDATORY PROPERTIES – QTP
ALWAYS LEARNS FOR
DIFFERENTIATING OBJECTS
• ASSITIVE PROPERTIES –
OPTIONAL PROPERTIES LEARNT
WHEN MANDATORY COULDN’T
ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE
OBJECT RECOGNITION
• ORDINAL IDENTIFIER – THIS IS USED
WHEN BOTH MANDATORY AND
ASSITIVE COULDN’T HELP TO
DIFFERENTIATE OBJECTS
• ORDINAL IDENTIFIER USES
LOCATION INDICATOR AND INDEX
INDICATOR TO DIFFERENTIATE
OBJECTS
OBJECT
IDENTIFICATION
• OBJECT IDENTIFICATION IS
ANOTHER COMPONENT IN QTP
SIMILAR TO GUI CONFIGURATION IN
WINRUNNER
• THIS IS USED TO CONFIGURE THE
MANDATORY AND ASSITIVE
PROPERTIES DEPENDING ON
APPLICATION TO BE TESTED.
OBJECT REPOSITORY
• OBJECT REPOSITORY IS SIMILAR TO
GUI MAP FILE IN WINRUNNER
• STORES THE PROPERTIES AND VALUE
OF THE OBJECTS LEARNT DURING
RECORDING
• WHILE PLAYBACK OF SCRIPTS, QTP
REFERS OBJECT REPOSITORY FOR
IDENTIFYING THE OBJECTS
OBJECT REPOSITORY
• TWO TYPES – PER ACTION, SHARED
REPOSITORY
• SHARED IS COMMONLY USED AS
SAVES TIME
• LOAD”PATH OF REPORSITORY” IS
FUNCTION USED TO LOAD
REPOSITORY RELATED FILES DURING
RUNTIME
WHAT ARE TYPES OF
PROPERTIES?
• TEST OBJECT – PROPERTIES
LEARNT BY QTP WHILE
RECORDING THAT IS USED FOR
MAPPING WITH ACTUAL OBJECTS
• RUNTIME – PROPERTIES OF
ACTUAL OBJECT IN THE
APPLICATION
OBJECT SPY
• OBJECT SPY IS A COMPONENT IN QTP
THAT HELPS TO LIST THE TEST
OBJECT AND RUNTIME PROPERTIES OF
THE GUI
• LISTS THE METHODS AND SYNTAX
THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED ON
THAT PARTICULAR OBJECT
• LISTS THE HEIRARCHY OF THE OBJECT
IN THE AUT
CHECK POINTS
• STANDARD CHECK POINT – STANDARD
PROPERTIES OF GUI INCLUDES TABLES
• BITMAP CHECK POINT – VERIFIES IMAGES
AND BITMAPS
• TEXT CHECKPT – WORKS ONLY IN CERTAIN
APPLICATION, BEST TO USE STANDARD
CHECK PT
• XML CHECK PT- USED TO VERIFY XML FILES
• DATABASE CHECK PT – CUSTOM AND DEFAULT
CHECKS ON DATABASE
CHECK POINTS
• ACCESSIBILITY CHECK PT – USED
TO VERIFY WHETHER THE PAGE
IN THE WEBSITE IS BUILD AS
PER W3 CONSORTIUM STANDARD
OR NOT
SMART
IDENTIFICATION
• MAINLY USED FOR VERIFYING
DYNAMIC OBJECTS
• THIS CAPTURES BASE FILTER AND
OPTIONAL FILTER PROPERTIES
INORDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DYNAMIC OBJECTS
• CAN BE ENABLED THROUGH TOOLS >
OBJECT IDENTIFICATION
OUTPUT VALUES
• OUTPUTS THE VALUE OF PROPERTIES
OF GUI DURING RUNTIME
• CAN BE VIEWED IN RUNTIME
DATATABLE IN RESULTS WINDOW
• MAINLY USED TO GET COLLECTION OF
PROPERTY VALUE OF DYNAMIC
OBJECTS
PARAMETRIZATION
• PARAMETRIZATION - PASSING
MULTIPLE SET OF VALUES FOR
TESTING
HOW CAN WE
PARAMETRIZE?
• IDENTIFY THE FIXED VALUE
THAT NEEDS TO BE
PARAMETRIZED
• REPLACE WITH PARAMETER
• PASSING VALUE FROM DATA
TABLE
WHAT IS DATA TABLE
• INBUILT XL SHEET IN QTP FOR
PASSING VALUES TO PARAMETERS IN
RUNTIME
• TWO SHEETS – GLOBAL AND ACTION
• GLOBAL – DATAS ARE PASSED TO ALL
ACTIONS WITHIN THE SCRIPT
• ACTION – DATAS ARE PASSED TO ONLY
PARTICULAR ACTION
WAYS TO
PARAMETRIZE..
• DATA TABLE PARAMETER – PASSING
THROUGH DATA TABLE
• ACTION/COMPONENT PARAMETER – BY
DECLARING INPUT AND OUTPUT
PARAMETER IN ACTION PROPERTIES
• ENVIRONMENT PARAMETER –
EXTERNAL HOST, URL, VUSER ETC…
• RANDOM PARAMETER – WITHIN
NUMERIC RANGE
Synchronization
• Problem due to mismatch between tool
time and application time is sorted using
synchronization
• Wait(seconds)
• Exist – returns boolean value
• Waitproperty(property, value, timeout)
• Sync – waits until all objects are
downloaded in a webpage
TYPES OF ACTIONS
• REUSABLE ACTION – THAT CAN BE
CALLED TO ANY SCRIPT
• NON REUSABLE – THAT CAN BE
CALLED TO ANY ACTION WITHIN
THE SCRIPT AND ONLY ONCE
• EXTERNAL – REUSABLE ACTIONS
BUT ARE READ ONLY
CALLING ACTION
• INSERT CALL TO EXISITING ACTION –
CALLS A REUSABLE ACTION, BUT ANY
CHANGES WILL BE REFLECTED ON
ORIGINAL CALLED ACTION
• INSERT CALL TO COPY OF ACTION –
CALLS A REUSABLE ACTION, BUT
CHANGES ARE NOT REFLECTED ON
ORIGINAL CALLED ACTION
TRANSACTIONS
• TRANSACTIONS ARE NOTHING BUT
TIMER FOR MEASURING TIME TAKEN
FOR EXECUTING PARTICULAR TASK
• SERVICES.START TRANSACTION “T1”
• SERVICES.END TRANSACTION “T1”
• CAN BE USED ANY NUMBER OF TIMES
DEBUGGING
• DEBUGGING – FINDING ERRORS IN THE
SCRIPT
• BREAKPOINTS – POINT WE CREATE IN THE
SCRIPT WHERE THE EXCUTION OF SCRIPT IS
PAUSED
• WATCHLIST – MAINLY FOR BETTER
DEBUGGING. USED TO VIEW THE VALUES OF
THE PARAMETERS/VARIABLES DURING
RUNTIME
HOW TO HANDLE
CUSTOM OBJECTS???
• SOLUTION IS VIRTUAL OBJECT
WIZARD
• THIS HELPS TO MAP THE CUSTOM
OBJECT WITH THE STANDARD
GUIS. HENCE WHILE RECORDING
QTP RECOGNIZES EVEN THESE
NON STANDARD OBJECTS
HANDLE THE CHANGING
WINDOWS/ OBJECT
PROPERTIES??
• THE SOLUTION IS “REGULAR
EXPRESSION”
• REGULAR EXPRESSION IS AN
EXPRESSION THAT MAKES QTP
TO RECOGNIZE THE OBJECTS
THAT HAVE VARYING PROPERTY
DURING RUNTIME
REGULAR EXPRESSION
• \ – SYMBOL TO INDICATE IT IS AN
REGULAR EXPRESSION
• . – PERIOD MATCHES ONE CHARACTER !
WELCOME. CAN MATCH WELCOMES,
WELCOMED
• * - MATCHES ANY NUMBER OF
CHARACTER !W*-WHO, WE
• [] – TO INDICATE COLLECTION LIKE
• !W[E3] – WE, W3
REGULAR
EXPRESSIONS
• - INDICATES RANGE LIKE [0-9]
• ^ INDICATES EXCLUSION LIKE [^A-Z]
WILL NOT ACCEPT UPPER CASE
ALPHABETS
• + indicates one or more occurrence of
preceding character ca+r – car, caaar and
not cr
• \w matches all characters except
alphanumeric and underscore
WHAT ARE
EXCEPTIONS???
• EXCEPTIONS ARE NOTHING BUT
UNEXPECTED ERRORS THAT
CAUSES HINDERANCE DURING
THE EXECUTION OF SCRIPTS
• COULD BE DUE TO POP UPS,
OBJECT PROPERTY CHANGE,
APPLICATION CRASH, TEST RUN
HOW TO HANDLE
EXCEPTION???
• SIMPLE USING RECOVERY
SCENARIO MANAGER.
• RECOVERY SCENARIO MANAGER
IS A WIZARD THAT GUIDES
STEPS TO HANDLE EXCEPTIONS
RECOVERY SCENARIO
MANAGER
• THREE STEPS
• TRIGGER EVENT – DEFINE THE
EXCEPTION
• RECOVERY OPERATION –
DEFINING THE HANDLER
FUNCTION
• POST RECOVERY OPERATION.
FUNCTION?
PROCEDURE???
• FUNCTION CAN BE INBUILT OR
USER DEFINED. IT IS ONE THAT
RETURNS A VALUE
• PROCEDURE IS SIMILAR TO
FUNCTION BUT DOESN’T RETURN
VALUE
SOME IMPORTANT
FUNCTIONS -
SetTOProperty
• SETTOPROPERTY()
• PROPERTYNAME, VALUE
• DIALOG(“Login”).WinEdit(“Username
”).SETTOPROPERTY(“Enabled”,”True
”)
GETTOPROPERTY()
• GetTOProperty( propertyname)
• Returns the value of the property
• Example,
• A=
Dialog(“Login”).Winbutton(“OK”).GetT
OProperty(“Enabled”)
GETTOPROPERTIES( )
• GetTOProperties()
• Lists all the properties and property
values of particular object
GetROProperty()
• GetROProperty(Propertyname)
• Returns the runtime property of the
particular object
• Dim a
• A=
dialog(“login”).Winbutton(“OK”).GETR
OPROPERTY(“nativeclass”)
Can we connect database
through QTP???
• Answer is yes not through wizard but
through scripting
• Set a = createobject(“ADODB.connection”)
• A.open”DSN = Employee.mdb, Username =
xxx, Password = xxxx”
• Set b =
createobject(“ADODB.RecordSet”)
• B.open”Select * from table1”,a
• Msgbox b.recordcount
File handling
• Using QTP it is possible to pass datas from
various files and write data into file
• Example to read data from a file
• Set a =
createobject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
• Set b = a.opentextfile(“path”,0/1/8,”true”)
• Str = b.readline
• 0 – write mode 1- read mode 8 – append
• True/false – file exist or create new
ChildObjects()
• This function is used to return the
list of all objects within the window
• Example to count no of objects
within dialog
• Set c = dialog(“Login”).childobjects()
• Msgbox c.count
POPUP()
• POPUP(“MSG”,WAIT TIME,
“TITLE”,BUTTON)
• EXAMPLE
• SET A =
POPUP(“HI”,10,”GREETING”,4)
• A WILL BE RETUNED VALUE 6(YES)
AND 7(NO)
MAXIMIZE WINDOW
• MAXIMIZE IS KEYWORD FOR
MAXIMIZING WINDOW/DIALOG
• FULLSCREEN IS THE KEYWORD
FOR MAXIMIZING THE BROWSER
DATATYPE
CONVERSION
• CINT() – CONVERTS VAR TO
INTEGER
• CLNG() – CONVERTS CURRENCY TO
INTEGER
• CCUR()- CONVERTS TO CURRENCY
FORMAT
IS IT POSSIBLE TO OPEN
APPLICATION THROUGH
SCRIPTING???
• YES!!!
• SYSTEMUTIL.RUN “PATH” FOR
OPENING ANY APPLN
• INVOKE “PATH” FOR EXE
APPLICATION
• EXECUTE “PATH”
USER DEFINED
FUNCTION
• FUNCTIONS THAT ARE REPEATED FOR MANY TIMES
• EXAMPLE
• PUBLIC FUNCTION SUM(X, Y, Z)
• Z = X+Y
• END FUNCTION
• DIM A, B, C
• A = INPUTBOX (“ENTER A”)
• B = INPUTBOX(“ENTER B”)
• SUM (A,B,C)
• MSGBOX C
FRAMEWORKS
• FRAMEWORKS ARE SET OF
DEFINED RULES FOR
AUTOMATING A TESTING
PROCESS
• IT COULD BE SAID AS
AUTOMATION TEST APPROACH
FRAMEWORKS
• LINEAR FRAMEWORK – RECORDING,
ENHANCEMENT , PLAYBACK
• HERE U CREATE SCENARIOS, DO
RECORDING BASED ON SCENARIOS,
ENHANCEMENT IS DONE FOR
VERIFICATIONS, AND PLAYBACK FOR
EXECUTION
FRAMEWORK
• DATA DRIVEN – HERE AN
EXTERNAL DATABASE IS
MAINTANINED FOR PASSING
VALUES TO THE ACTIONS IN QTP
• VALUES ARE COMPLETELY PASSED
ONLY THRO THIS DATA SETS
FRAMEWORK
• KEYWORD DRIVEN – USING THE
MANULLY ENTERED TABLE THAT
DEFINES TESTOBJECT,
OPERATION, DATA AND
DESCRIPTION, VB SCRIPTS ARE
AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED BY
QTP
FRAMEWORK
• DESCRIPTIVE PROGRAMMING – IT IS A
CONCEPT OF EXECUTION OF SCRIPTS
WITHOUT THE REFERENCE OF OBJECT
REPOSITORY
• DIALOG(“CLASS = DIALOG”,”CAPTION =
Login”).Winbutton(“class = Button”,”Text =
OK”).Click
FRAMEWORKS
• FUNCTIONAL/MODULAR – HERE
THE ACTIONS ARE DECLARED AS
USER DEFINED FUNCTIONS
• THESE FUNCTIONS ARE CALLED
WHEREVER NEEDED.
FRAMEWORK
• HYBRID FRAMEWORK – MIX OF
ANY OF THE ABOVE FRAME
WORKS ARE CLASSED AS HYBRID.
• DEPENDING ON COMPLEXITY OF
THE APPLICATION, MIXES ARE
CHOSEN.

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