Comments on: Descriptive Programming (DP) – 4 (Creating a Test Script)

By: monoshree kotal

monoshree kotal — Sat, 05 May 2012 00:22:35 +0000

Hi,

The contents are reALLY SIMPLE AND HELPFUL..It is very easy to understand. I am new to automation and your articles help me a lot.

Thanks

By: Jaideep Patel

Jaideep Patel — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:39:25 +0000

Thanks a lot Anshoo. You really are a great help. Please keep up the good work. :)

By: Anshoo Arora

Anshoo Arora — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:45:33 +0000

Jaideep, it depends on personal preference really. I prefer Type1 you’ve listed and use Type2 only when I am using Description Objects. They will both do the same thing.

By: Jaideep Patel

Jaideep Patel — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 04:10:18 +0000

Hey Anshoo,

Thanks a lot for your help. I have one doubt.

In real time scenario which tpye of descriptive programming is used.
Ex: type 1
Browser(“name:=Google”).Page(“title:=name)

Ex: type 2
Dim btnGoogleSearch
set btnGoogleSearch=Description.create
btnGoogleSearch(“type”).value=”submit”
btnGoogleSearch(“type”).RegularExpression = False
btnGoogleSearch(“name”).value=”Google Search”
btnGoogleSearch(“html tag”).value=”INPUT”

Browser(“Browser”).Page(“Page”).Webbutton(btnGoogleSearch).Click

Out of these two types which is used in real time scenario. In my work palce we, iam using Type 1. Is that ok?

By: Anshoo Arora

Anshoo Arora — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:19:22 +0000

Lakshmi, the .Sync method “waits for the browser to complete the current navigation” (from QTP help).

By: Anshoo Arora

Anshoo Arora — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:02:53 +0000

Piyush, in a larger context, we may have lots of code after this verification. If we do not exit here and move on to the next statement (speaking hypothetically ofcourse), we may error out. This is a way of avoiding such a situation.

By: Anshoo Arora

Anshoo Arora — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:05:17 +0000

Jaideep, the beauty of using DP is that you don’t have to write all the properties that you see from spy or the OR. You only need to write the property(ies) that are enough to uniquely identify the target object. If its a link, and if its seen only once in your application, you can use its innertext (or part of it using wildcards) to identify it. If it appears more than once, or you can use innertext along with Index.

By: lakshmi

lakshmi — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:13:41 +0000

hi,your work is really appreciable.It helps new learners a lot………….
I am new learner to qtp.Can u plz tell me the usage of below line u had used in above program.

Browser( “title:=.*Mercury.*” ).Sync

KINDLY HELP ME
THANKS.

By: Piyush

Piyush — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:28:01 +0000

Hi anshoo,
while adding ordinal identifier to the browser we used above like :
If Browser( “title:=Welcome: Mercury Tours”, “index:=0″ ).Exist( 15 ) Then
how wud I kno that index wud be equal to 0?
or if I wanted to use “creation time” then hw will I use it here?
please suggest.

By: Piyush

Piyush — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:00:48 +0000

Hi Anshoo,
In step2 we uses following code:
If Browser( “title:=Welcome: Mercury Tours” ).Exist( 15 ) Then
Reporter.ReportEvent micPass, “Step 1- Launch”, “Correct browser was launched.”
Else
Reporter.ReportEvent micFail, “Step 1- Launch”, “Browser failed to launch.”
ExitTest
End If
My question is what the use of “ExitTest” statement here as without using it we’ll get the test terminated itself bcoz there is no browser object open to perform next step.Please suggest.