Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 29, 2009
Parent page: Test Automation Problems
Resource Conversion
When starting up in-house Test Automation, companies often look for internal resources. While the benefits are obvious, there are some snags on this path.
Problems and impact
1) Converting manual testing QA resources to test automation
Strong programming skills and technical mindset are mandatory requirements, and must be considered when choosing a candidate: either [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 24, 2009
General Recommendation
Object-Oriented GUI Recognition method should be used whenever possible. If an object is completely supported by testing tool then wrapping functions (provided by the testing tool) should be used to interact with the object. If an object is partially supported by testing tool then object’s native methods and properties should be used when required.
If [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 21, 2009
Parent page: Service Functions – XML (QTP, VBScript)
Description
Retrieves child comment node from comments collection and returns comment text as string.
Public Function ChildCommentValue(ByRef objXMLParent, ByVal intNumber)
Dim objColl, objComment
If objXMLParent is Nothing Then
ChildCommentValue = ""
Exit Function
End If
Set objColl = objXMLParent.Comments()
If intNumber > objColl.Count ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 20, 2009
Everyone who has a practical experience with Functional/Regression Test Automation tools may connect and add-up into the Google document based comparison table.
The blog post below contains the link:
http://www.testsquad.org/2009/07/test-automation-comparison-wiki.html
Or access it directly: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=tWKHlKxj3s8_1zisIRIJBjg&single=true&gid=1&output=html
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Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 17, 2009
Parent page: Service Functions – XML (QTP, VBScript)
Description
Returns scalar value of the XML child attribute specified by a name. Attribute name duplication within the same node is not allowed by XML rules. If there is no attribute with the name specified then “” (empty string) is returned.
Public Function ChildAttributeValueByName(ByRef objXMLParent, ByVal sAttrName)
Dim objColl, objAttr
If objXMLParent is ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 16, 2009
Parent page: Service Functions – XML (QTP, VBScript)
Description
Returns XML child attribute (as XMLAttribute object reference) specified by a name. Attribute name duplication within the same node is not allowed by XML rules. If there is no attribute with the name specified then “Nothing” is returned.
Public Function ChildAttributeByName(ByRef objXMLParent, ByVal sAttrName)
Dim objColl, objAttr
If ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 15, 2009
Parent page: Service Functions – XML (QTP, VBScript)
Description
Returns scalar value of the XML child node specified by an xml tag name. If there are multiple objects with the same tag, returns value of the first reference. If there are no objects with the tag specified returns “” (empty string).
Public Function ChildElementValueByName(ByRef objXMLParent, ByVal sTagName)
Dim objColl
If objXMLParent [...] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 14, 2009
Parent page: Service Functions – XML (QTP, VBScript)
Description
Returns XML child node (as XMLElement object reference) specified by an xml tag name. If there are multiple objects with the same tag, returns the first reference. If there are no objects with the tag specified returns “Nothing”.
Public Function ChildElementByName(ByRef objXMLParent, ByVal sTagName)
Dim objColl
If objXMLParent is Nothing Then
Set ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 08, 2009
Parent page: Test Automation Problems
Software
Technical problems related to Test Automation Tools, and platform-product-tool compatibilities.
Problems
Test Automation Tool does not support Product’s platform (operating system) completely or partially
Test Automation Tool does not support Product’s GUI (for Functional/Regression Test Automation) completely or partially (this may include total absence of support for the particular GUI or a ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 03, 2009
There are no news in that but it’s the problem I have just faced first time – QTP doesn’t support the application, in any matter.
Although it is declared it does support Delphi applications in fact it doesn’t support until you get a special build. The following is a recommendation how to get one (origin: QTP help).
Enabling Communications [...] ...
