Posted by Albert Gareev on May 15, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. I continue my study journal figuring out HP ALM configuration. This is a second entry about customization with VBScript. General Idea Typical issue / defect management workflow is based on rules specific to the Role and […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 13, 2015
This is a technical entry with my research-and-experiment notes. Feel free to add or argue. Try at your own risk. I continue my study journal figuring out HP ALM configuration. This entry is about customization with VBScript. General Idea How many times we had to reopen failed fixes? How many times regression defects ruined testing […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 15, 2014
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Filters parent XML object by removing child XML nodes not matching specified attribute regex value. Implementation Unit Tests ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 23, 2014
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Filters parent XML object by removing child XML nodes not matching specified attribute value. Implementation Unit Tests ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 15, 2014
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Returns child XML node with specified attribute matching specified regex. Implementation Unit Tests ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Feb 10, 2014
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Append all child elements from the list (including their attributes, comments, text nodes) to XML node. Implementation Test Code ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 15, 2012
Description Get parent object reference. In the example given, it’s a browser process, but you can narrow it down to a page or a web container object (table, div, etc.). Use FindAllChildren to retrieve array of links. – You can limit search depth according to your context. – You may want to do filtered search using […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 24, 2012
Description Let’s say we need to retrieve a number of megabytes from under “Lots of space” category. First, we need to explore the GUI implementation. If we’re lucky, this text node may have a unique class or ID value. Then it becomes a one-step search as in the code example below. However, if the text node doesn’t have […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 17, 2012
Description “Mouse Over” event triggers responses like highlighting, pop-up hints, etc. With TestComplete we can use one of GUI object’s methods – HoverMouse – to simulate mouse over by placing mouse cursor over object. Alternatively, we can use LLPlayer object to simulate mouse moves. In the example provided both methods are simulating mouse overs on […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Sep 08, 2012
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Returns text value of node’s child attribute specified by name. Valid arguments: an XML element node (NODE_ELEMENT type), name of the attribute. If XML node is not defined, returns empty string. Uses private function p_GetXMLElementAttrText, defined within the library (see parent page). Implementation ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 17, 2012
Parent page: Using GUI Forms in TestComplete Even though automation scripts are intended to drive the application under test there are cases when communication with tester is required. With TestComplete, we have a vast arsenal of predefined GUI controls for that (and those, acquainted with Delphi, will be pleasantly surprised by the way it’s organized). […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 16, 2012
Parent page: Using GUI Forms in TestComplete Even though automation scripts are intended to drive the application under test there are cases when communication with tester is required. With TestComplete, we have a vast arsenal of predefined GUI controls for that (and those, acquainted with Delphi, will be pleasantly surprised by the way it’s organized). […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 10, 2012
Parent page: Using GUI Forms in TestComplete Even though automation scripts are intended to drive the application under test there are cases when communication with tester is required. With TestComplete, we have a vast arsenal of predefined GUI controls for that (and those, acquainted with Delphi, will be pleasantly surprised by the way it’s organized). […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Apr 09, 2012
Parent page: Using GUI Forms in TestComplete Even though automation scripts are intended to drive the application under test there are cases when communication with tester is required. With TestComplete, we have a vast arsenal of predefined GUI controls for that (and those, acquainted with Delphi, will be pleasantly surprised by the way it’s organized). […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 06, 2012
Parent page: Service Functions – String (QTP, VBScript) Description Get token string from the source string. Position is relative, defined by another token-keyword and a number. Implementation ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 05, 2012
Parent page: Service Functions – String (QTP, VBScript) Description Get token string from the source string. Position is absolute, defined by number. Implementation ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 08, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Copy all child elements (and attributes, comments, text nodes) from one XML node to another. Implementation Test Code ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Dec 06, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Move all child elements (and attributes, comments, text nodes) from one XML node to another. Implementation Test Code ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Nov 24, 2011
Description Get object reference. Get total number of items in the list. Generate an index within the given range. Select item by index. Implementation ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 20, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Locate XML node depth within the hierarchy. Valid argument: an XML element node (NODE_ELEMENT type). Implementation ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Oct 08, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Create XML DOM object by loading source XML from string. If the string is empty or source XML is invalid returns Nothing. Implementation Test Code ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 26, 2011
Reference page: Service Functions – System (QTP, VBScript) Description Check folder exists – check folder has files. Iterate through collection of files and keep reference of the most recently modified file (its DateLastModified property is always the highest number). The remaining reference is the one that you need. In case of errors the function returns […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 20, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Service Functions – Dictionary (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description For each occurrence of XML node perform conversion to Dictionary, and store all records in indexed Dictionary object. Implementation ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jul 19, 2011
Parent page: Service Functions – MSXMLDOM (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Service Functions – Dictionary (QTP, TestComplete, VBScript) Description Create Dictionary object and populate with data (only direct content – text, comments, CData, and attributes) taken from XML node. Naming convention: @attr_name for attributes; #text_index for text nodes; #comment_index for comment nodes; #cdata_index for CData Section nodes. […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 23, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I put all examples together. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source The following line <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”.\LogView4.xsl”?> instructs the web browser to use XSL script for visualization of XML data. Web-page Report And here’s the source code of the script XSL Source […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Jun 14, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today’s post is a little bit of a side mini-project within the test reports theme. What I wanted is to add more structure in test logs, but made it summarized. So I went to explore about simple approaches in that. Very often, on static pages (without AJAX) the approach used is […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on May 25, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Let’s now take the examples from the previous post, and add more style. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source Did you notice the following line? <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”.\LogView3.xsl”?> This is how we instruct the web browser to use XSL script for visualization of XML data. […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 14, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I continue with more complex examples using previously demonstrated XSL parsing nodes grouped into sub-templates. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source Note that the structure of XML file is not identical to the previous examples. It has more complexities and dependencies that need […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 04, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present XML Tree to HTML Table transformation example. Here’s our XML record simulating logged test steps. XML Source Did you notice the following line? <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”.\Tree2Table.xsl”?> This is how we instruct the web browser to use XSL script for visualization of XML data. Web-page Report And here’s […] ...
Posted by Albert Gareev on Mar 03, 2011
Parent page: Generating Test Reports Today I present example on dynamically building HTML nodes, with XSL, and from XML data. Here’s our XML record simulating log data of a test session. XML Source Did you notice the following line? <?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”.\LogView1.xsl”?> This is how we instruct the web browser to use XSL script for […] ...
