DP

QuickTest’s Custom CheckPoints and Beyond

by Anshoo Arora ON October 21, 2009 · Posted In All, QTP, QTP/DP · 65 comments

This article will discuss the concepts of Custom Checkpoints, their benefits, when to use them and how they provide us with greater flexibility in script development. Custom CheckPoints offer an easier and highly flexible way of construction your object verifications, which is a core concept of test automation. The concepts below, when coupled together can help you build extremely robust scripts, with enough information that your user desires.

QTP: Creating Object Descriptions “On The Fly”

by Anshoo Arora ON September 27, 2009 · Posted In All, QTP, QTP/DP · 12 comments

This article outlines how and when descriptions can be created at run-time to minimize code, and ease maintenance. Examples and Demos included.

QTP: Understanding the Description Object (Description.Create)

by Anshoo Arora ON September 6, 2009 · Posted In All, QTP, QTP/DP · 144 comments

This article covers the principles of creating a Description Object in QTP and its amazing use with the ChildObjects method. We will see how we can create an object description with a single property, with multiple properties, by using regular expressions and finally putting all these concepts into their application with the ChildObjects method.

Descriptive Programming (DP) vs Object Repository (OR)

by Anshoo Arora ON August 10, 2009 · Posted In All, QTP, QTP/DP · 58 comments

This article compares the uses of Descriptive Programming vs Object Repository in QTP.

Descriptive Programming (DP) – 4 (Creating a Test Script)

by Anshoo Arora August 10, 2009 113 comments

This is the 4th article in the series and will show how DP can be used to create a test module in QTP.

Descriptive Programming (DP) Concepts – 3 (Ordinal Identifiers)

by Anshoo Arora August 10, 2009 74 comments

This article outlines the concepts of Ordinal Identifiers used in QTP. We will also create a simple test module (step by step) for a login process using only Descriptive Programming (DP).

Descriptive Programming (DP) Concepts – 2 (Regular Expressions)

by Anshoo Arora August 10, 2009 69 comments

This topic provides an excellent introduction to Regular Expressions with DP in QTP. It also discusses the famous wild card character in detail.

Descriptive Programming (DP) Concepts – 1

by Anshoo Arora August 10, 2009 128 comments

Descriptive programming has become the technique of choice for many QTP test developers. This topic provides an excellent introduction to DP with QTP.