An engineering approach to Software Testing and Test Automation

Parent page: Service Functions – XML (QTP, VBScript)  Answers Description Open XML file – load into memory – locate target nodes – update (replace) values – save XML file (either under a new name or overwrite the original file). Search is performed by tag name (“target_node”). If you pass in a non-string parameter for .SetValue function, convert it first by using CStr(). Set [...] ...

Parent page: Service Functions – XML (QTP, VBScript)  Answers 1. How to count all direct children? Set objColl = objParent.ChildElements() intCount = objColl.Count 2. How to count all direct children, specific name tag? Set objColl = objParent.ChildElementsByPath("./wanted") intCount = objColl.Count 3. How to count all descendants? Set objColl = ...

GP/QTP Automation: Conclusion but not closure The main question – whether it’s possible to automate Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains application testing (OS Patch smoke tests, UAT/Regression tests) – was answered positively, and proven in the actual implementation of automated test scenarios. Tools and Technologies Standard GUI recognition method (via Windows Handle) used by UI Automation tools was ineffective because [...] ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation  Dexterity Macro Limitation and Suggested Workaround One of the major limitations identified in Dexterity Macro System is totally hard-coded data with no functionalities to read them from any external source. To overcome this issue we can dynamically generate Dexterity macro text file from a pre-built XML template. After the file is generated [...] ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation  Answer According to the documentation, there are no loop operators defined in Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains Dexterity Macros. However, the macro language provides other commands to workaround the issues in the most required cases. Workarounds 1. Capture values of GUI fields (in a loop) Use DumpFieldBegin…DumpFieldEnd commands. 2. Window synchronization Use ActivateWindow ...

Parent page: Service Functions – System (QTP, VBScript) How to create a unique subfolder Description A subfolder is created based on the name pattern and a date-time stamp, e.g. “AccountSearch 2009-10-14 17-18-03″.  You can add extra steps and form the code as a function that returns full path of the newly created subfolder. sName – name pattern sFullPath - full path of the newly [...] ...

Parent page: Service Functions – System (QTP, VBScript) How to duplicate an existing file (If you want to access the file but it’s locked) Description sFileName – name of the file to duplicate sNewName – name of created file (generated automatically), pass-back argument. Uses UniqueFilename function to generate a name for the duplicate file. Public Function DuplicateFile(ByVal sFileName, ByRef sNewName) Dim ...

Parent page: Service Functions – System (QTP, VBScript) How to generate a unique file name if the file name already exists in the given folder (That often happens, if you need to create a series of files or duplicate an existing file) Description sFileName – the “original” file name or file name template sFolderName – parent folder (full path required) objParameter – Dictionary object [...] ...

Parent page: Service Functions – System (QTP, VBScript) Description If you need to generate text file with values you don’t know ahead you may do it dynamically, by utilizing the function below. Make sure you designed template first. The current logic is oriented to executable text files generation, like Dexterity Macro or OS Shell batch files. Code lines are data-driven, if data not [...] ...

All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation  Dexterity Macro Limitation  One of the major limitations identified in Dexterity Macro System is totally hard-coded data with no functionalities to read them from any external source. Running scripts that always look for exactly the same account number or check balance on always the same date would provide a little value for [...] ...