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 […] ...
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 […] ...
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. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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. ...
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). ...
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”. ...
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 […] ...
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). […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 01, 2009
Parent page: Test Automation Problems “Heavyweight” planning Traditional “Waterfall” type approach: planning of automation development activities months and months ahead, creating project phases, extensive documentation, trying to predict future coverage. Problems and impact Long-term budgeting and resource allocation planning is barely possible for automation projects as it is a secondary deliverable vs. the main software […] ...
