SanScript, Visual Basic, and VBScript functions implementing the “Highlight in Application” feature as in QTP Object Repository Manager. All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation VBA/SanScript function - put in your Excel VBA macro file Note. Ignores sanScript errors VBScript function - put as Dexterity Interface Class method Note. If you use it as an embedded function don’t […] ...
Parent page: Service Functions – System (QTP, VBScript) Use FileSystemObject.GetFile method to obtain a File object. Argument should be a full path string. Set FSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) Check if the file exists first. When to use it? There is a variety of utility tasks related to it: get parent folder, create another file in the same folder, create another […] ...
Parent page: Service Functions – System (QTP, VBScript) Use FileSystemObject.FileExists method. Argument should be a full path string. When to use it? Always before trying to access the file (delete, rename, or read from). Does file format matter? No. It could be text file, excel spreadsheet, bitmap, binary file, - anything. Just make sure you […] ...
Hospital error leads to radiation overdoses The article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cedars13-2009oct13,0,1200257.story (…) Doctors believed it would provide them more useful data to analyze disruptions in the flow of blood to brain tissue. That meant resetting the machine to override the pre-programmed instructions that came with the scanner when it was installed. “There was a misunderstanding about an […] ...
Parent page: Service Functions – Excel (QTP, VBScript) Description Check the file exists - Create an instance of Excel by using COM - open (load) file ...
This is the discussion slowly going on Justin Dessonville’s blog post. With the arguments taken from famous “Testing vs. Checking” article by Michael Bolton it once again reminds me of Luddites. The Luddites were a social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested—often by destroying mechanized looms—against the changes produced […] ...
A script capturing Dexterity objects (both GUI and non-GUI) contained within the window. Great Plains application is required to be up with the particular window invoked and activated. All related posts: Reference Page – GP/QTP Automation Programming language and tool: VBScript / QTP. The script produces an output as XML file with the structure similar to QTP object […] ...
Data Container Boundaries: where is the weakness? All the values used by computer programs are classified by type (integer number, floating point number, string, date, etc.), and all data types are internally encoded with numbers. Digital nature of computers makes them specific and discrete with numbers; once-and-forever defined memory cells serve that purpose. The capacity […] ...
Software Testing is an empirical process. Empirical approach as an opposite to theoretical requires observation, investigation and experimenting. Results of those actions performed are collected, documented, analyzed, and categorized, before conclusion is made. A Scientific Method of Learning consists of the collection of data through observation and experimentation, and the formulation and testing of hypotheses. […] ...
In the code examples I present I often refer to routine functions. In my framework I have specialized libraries to call from. In my blog I maintain the similar structure. Using built-in QTP-XML Objects and Functions Returns reference of XML Element Returns text value of XML Element Returns reference of XML Attribute Returns text value of […] ...
In the code examples I present I often refer to routine functions. In my framework I have specialized libraries to call from. In my blog I maintain the similar structure. Matching string with a pattern (Regular Expression, RegEx) Replace pattern(s) in a string Number conversion and initialization with a default value Initialize string with […] ...
