Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 22, 2010
Quick Answers Quick answers to questions arrived into my blog recently. How to load GUI map in QTP during run-time? Use methods of RepositoriesCollection object: Find / Add / Remove. See sample code, read investigation results. What’s the name of add-in for MS Dynamics Great Plains automation? There is no specific add-in. You would need Dot […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 15, 2010
“Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. Its heart is a series of small behavior preserving transformations. Each transformation (called a ‘refactoring’) does little, but a sequence of transformations can produce a significant restructuring. Since each refactoring is small, it’s less […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 10, 2010
Parent page: Service Functions – Excel (QTP, VBScript) Answers Description Connect to Excel through COM – Open workbook – Open worksheet – map cell values to column names. Notes. Heading and trailing space characters are removed To make mapping not case sensitive index is brought to lower case If your spreadsheet allows column name duplication you need to enhance […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 08, 2010
“Refactoring is a disciplined technique for restructuring an existing body of code, altering its internal structure without changing its external behavior. Its heart is a series of small behavior preserving transformations. Each transformation (called a ‘refactoring’) does little, but a sequence of transformations can produce a significant restructuring. Since each refactoring is small, it’s less likely […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 27, 2010
QTP Action at a glance “Happy Path” Test Flow The screenprint above demonstrates sample “Test” Flow designed using QTP Actions. “Happy Path” testing, or conformance testing, or checking can be characterized by 2 attributes: it is scripted, and it ignores everything that is out of scope. Scripted here does not mean a program […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 24, 2010
Test Automation Problems series in my blog has received its own page. I also added Recommended Reading section to provide a few links to external resources. Don’t miss the latest article by Linda Wilkinson. ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 18, 2010
Some time ago I blogged about non-GUI testing approach in automation. I also provided examples of how COM/OLE Viewer may help in exploring methods and properties of undocumented objects. But there are other cases when an application is poorly documented, and you know little about its internal methods and objects. Google Code Search may help you […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 10, 2010
e-Pen and e-Paper – that’s what you need for e-Collaboration. And here’s the tool. (It took just a couple of minutes for me to create a sample picture above) Don’t forget to try Replay button! ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 05, 2010
In the previous post I warned about possible synchronization issues while copying a complex and/or large file-folder structure. To ensure reliability of the operation performed we may verify the structure that was created. We need to answer the following questions before designing the script. Which folders and files should it verify? Which way should it […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 03, 2010
How to create a complex folder structure by using a template In the previous post I provided code example that creates a folder and then applies security permissions on it. However, as per requirements, user folders often come with a predefined structure of folders and some files created by default. Sure, we can write script […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 29, 2010
In this post I provide code snippets for SetACL tool command line automation. Examples of command line instructions were taken from here. The code presented below is written in VBA for MS Excel. CreateUserFolder function can create folders on a local or network drive. After user folder is created, the function sets typical access permissions by […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 27, 2010
I found SetACL tool very handy. In addition to implementation of security settings in batch files (that’s what it was created for), I quite successfully used it in automation of infrastructure maintenance and testing jobs that occure daily and even hourly. As any command line tool, powerful but simple, it requires instructions written in its […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 20, 2010
If on your project you are not restricted to using Microsoft only toolkit in your system administration, testing, or automation work, you may want to try SetACL as an alternative to CACLS. It has some more advanced features, especially when it comes to setting allowance of inheritable permissions. Area of use Security Configuration Assessment and Management, […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 13, 2010
Reference page: Active Directory – Sample Scripts (Excel/VBA) While processing User Account put the following code in the beginning of operations to disable it. And enable it back once you’re successfully done. This way, in case of an unhandled exception that breaks execution of a script, any User Account that wasn’t properly processed will remain […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 08, 2010
Parent page: Service Functions – Excel (QTP, VBScript) Question The question was asked here. How can I get data from Excel spreadsheet if it is accidentally open? It ruins whole batch execution. While opening manually I can go “read-only” and still access it. Is there any way to read data from an open and locked […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 07, 2010
Parent page: Service Functions – Excel (QTP, VBScript) Answers Description Connect to Excel through COM – Open workbook – Check property. ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 06, 2010
Peeling an Onion Code In my previous post I presented code structure looking like layers of an onion. In this post I’m exploring ways to transform it to structures that have much less drawback while performing same (or richer) functionalities. Let’s begin from the very first issue: readability of an Onion Code. Generally speaking, test steps are […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 30, 2010
Studying programming through record/playback sometimes results in a really weird code. What is wrong with Matryoshka Programming? ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 25, 2010
Sure, computer programs are now very complex systems – but they are always a part of even more complex system – Infrastructure. Therefore, testing is not limited to a program testing. Microsoft *ACLS.EXE family of tools is a handy set for investigation and testing of implemented security permissions. Don’t be afraid of command line! CACLS.EXE […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 23, 2010
Do you know enough about your test environment when designing a Load Test plan? What can you do and what would you do to provide stakeholders with the most valuable information in the context and at the moment? How do you use their feedback in your testing work? ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 18, 2010
Quick Test Professional provides 2 ways of referring to GUI objects while creating testing scripts. Have you ever tested performance of either one? ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 15, 2010
Reference page: Service Functions – System (QTP, VBScript) Question The question was asked here. I need to check number of text files in the folder but i dont know names Answer Checking what number of files is contained in a folder is simple. More challenging tasks would be processing files based on type or name […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 11, 2010
Reference page: Active Directory – Sample Scripts (Excel/VBA) Description The function below is used to clear group membership for a user account. The account is removed from all groups except recognized ones . By default, “Users” and “Domain Users” are in the list. The function can be easily modifed to recognize and process membership based on […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 09, 2010
Reference page: Active Directory – Sample Scripts (Excel/VBA) Description The function below performs 1-layer deep search of User Account object in all Organizational Units contained under parent Organizational Unit. The function can be easily modified for a recursive search if children OU hierarchy is unknown. Use objUser.Get(“distinguishedName”) to retrieve full LDAP path of found […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 04, 2010
All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation Question The question was asked here. I need to make a small change in xml file created without re-mapping a window. How can I manually get Dexterity GUI field names from GP? Answer You can do that by accessing “Tools\Resource Descriptions\Windows” item of main menu of any Dexterity Window. […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 01, 2010
Reference page: Active Directory – Sample Scripts (Excel/VBA) How to modify Attributes of an Object Introduction In Microsoft Active Directory Object Classes have Attributes representing additional information about an object. It could be Firstname, Lastname – for a person, Address and Phone number both for a person and organization. Access to Attributes is performed through LDAP calls, […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 25, 2010
Parent page: Service Functions – String (QTP, VBScript) Question The question was asked here. Hi Albert! Can you email me a QTP function that wraps line of text without breaking words? Thank you! Answer Proper text alignment is important. The whole layout of CSS block or HTML table could be broken if a text line […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 22, 2010
Parent page: Service Functions – String (QTP, VBScript) Question The question was asked here. What QTP function i can use to trim inside string? For e.g. “text text text text” – i want only 1 space between. Answer I believe the sample string provided in the question originally contained multiple space characters inside but was […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 18, 2010
Reference page: Active Directory – Sample Scripts (Excel/VBA) How to create Security Group Description Security Group object could be created within its container object – Organizational Unit. The example below is based on the assumption that we successfully retrieved an instance of Organizational Unit. An existing User Account will also be added to the newly […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 16, 2010
Reference page: Active Directory – Sample Scripts (Excel/VBA) How to create User Account Description User Account object could be created within its container object – Organizational Unit. The example below is based on the assumption that we successfully retrieved an instance of Organizational Unit. Note. You need to login as an authorized person to successfully execute […] ...
