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At Pingdom Tools you can submit your web-page address and almost instantly get stats reported. What it does? The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is […] ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation  The following object implements interface from QTP side. Function Libary Source Code Used resources: Service Functions – String (QTP, VBScript) Declare and initialize: ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation   VBScript limitation  Since VBscript supports only Variant type attempts to use variable in a COM call with an argument defined as “[in, out] BSTR * “ reasonably end with “Type mismatch” error. This error is generated by the COM object itself rather then VBscript interpreter since the object gets string […] ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation   General concept The Application object provides only a few methods for simulation of GUI interaction required in Test Automation. However, ExecuteSanScript method allows overcoming of that limitation. The piece of sanScript code pre-written or dynamically generated could be passed-in to Microsoft Dynamics GP runtime engine, and compiled and executed […] ...

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Parent page: Test Automation Problems Support and Feedback  Business logic investigation, test case design, and test script programming are distinct activities. A professional automation engineer is capable of carrying out the all three, however the overall progress will slowdown. Since test automation project often starts when automated testing results are already needed there is no […] ...

Parent page: Test Automation Problems Requirements  Trying to do something without understanding what you are supposed to get often produces unexpected results. With regards to computer software the expectations must be even more precise and specific, as all the functionalities are built from atomic instructions executed by a machine. Test Automation, as a software development […] ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation   Documentation  Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains Continuum API Guide (http://mbs.microsoft.com/downloads/public/GP90Docs/ContinuumAPIGuide.pdf) is the only main published document, which is pretty short though. Many of available functionalities are just mentioned or briefly referenced but not documented in details. Exploring DLL library directly I was able to retrieve more details on ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation   Purpose: extract object descriptions from Dexterity Dictionary and create custom XML-based GUI Map file for QTP. Used resources: Service Functions – XML (QTP, VBScript) ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation   Dexterity Objects Hierarchy  Internally, Dexterity objects have the following hierarchy: Application Forms Windows Window Fields (input boxes, check/radio buttons, buttons, etc.)  The hierarchy is stored in the Dictionary file.  Visually, Dexterity objects are presented as: Panels Dialogs GUI Controls (input boxes, check/radio buttons, buttons, etc.)  In order to use […] ...

Is looking at the back-end useful for black-box functional testing? Do you want to explore all properties and methods of COM object you use in your Automation? Do you want to know (and, also, be able to modify) all COM libraries installed on your system? – If yes, you will probably want to use (or […] ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation   Overview: COM and Automation  COM, Component Object Model, is Microsoft framework for developing and supporting program component objects. Whereas Microsoft’s Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) provides services for the compound document that users see on their display, COM provides the underlying services of interface negotiation, life cycle management (determining […] ...