Object Repository Concepts in QTP with examples

Object Repository Concept in qtp :

Object Repository: It is a place where qtp stores the objects(Ex:buttons or Check Boxes) information.
There are two types of Object Repositories
1.Local Object Repository

By default if we record any test,that goes to Local Object Repository.
We can edit or delete object properties. Only that test can use that object repository.

2.Shared Object Repository
If we create shared object repository,other tests can also
use that shared object repository. We can’t edit object properties.
To get more concepts on this.Go through below cases

1.How to create shared object repository in qtp
Open Blank Test
Goto Resources–Object Repository Manager
Object—Add Objects
–>Open ur application and add objects of the application
save it anywhere in ur pc.
the extension would be .tcr

Shared Object Repository Example :
Open Blank Test
Goto Resources–Object Repository Manager
–>open ur Flight Reservation Application
object–Add objects
–>add objects of ur application
1.add Agent Name edit box
2.add Password edit box
3.add ok button

File–Save
2.How to use shared object repository inqtp
Goto Resources–Associate Repositories
One Associate Repositories window appears
There click on + symbol to browse the shared object repository
Goto Available actions,bydefault Action1 would be present
click on action1 and then click on > button
It will add to Associated Actions
Click ok.
Now u can open local object repository and view the objetcs that
u added through shared object repository.
We can’t edit or delete those objects properties and values.

Now u can write ur testcase in expert view and execute

dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Agent Name:”).Set “venkatesh”
dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).Set “mercury”
dialog(“Login”).WinButton(“OK”).Click

3.How to export local object repository into shared object repository in qtp
Open Blank Test
Goto Resources–>Object Repository
Open ur Flight Reservation Application
Goto Object–Add objects to Local
Add ur application objects to ur test
In the same object repository window
Goto File—Export Local Objects. It saves as .tsr file
So that anyone can use that .tsr file.

Actions in QTP

1.What is an action in QTP

Ans:Action is nothing but a specific task under one test

(Ex: Login is one action and Payment is another action)

(We can make them both in one action but it would be better if they are different)

2.How to call an action in QTP

Ans.

RunAction “Action2[Action Name]“,oneIteration, parameters

3.What is reusable action in QTP

Ans.

To call an action from other tests we must make it as reusable so that scope becomes global and can be called from any test.

A reusable action can be called and executed but not editable in the current test.

4.How many types of actions are there in QTP

Ans.

i)Non-Reusable Action :an action that can be called only in the test with which it is stored, and can be called only once.

ii)Reusable Action : an action that can be called multiple times by the test with which it is stored (the local test) as well as by other tests.

iii)External Action : a reusable action stored within another test.

External actions are read-only in the calling test.

The below are not types of actions.

Internal Action : an action which is created locally under one test . Eventhough if it is reusable action , it would be internal action

Independent Action : an action which is not dependent on any other action

Dependant Action :an action which is depend on other action(s)

Examples for Actions in QTP

1. How to create actions while recording in qtp

Create Blank TestCase. Goto –>Record .Open ur Flight Reservation application

Do the record for login (Enter Agent Name and Mercury Password).Then the script would be

SystemUtil.Run “C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe”,”",”C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\”,”open”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Agent Name:”).Set “venkatesh”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).SetSecure “4c04981da8da89eb8a871793145df8e386047656″
Dialog(“Login”).WinButton(“OK”).Click

Goto insert —>Call to new action and then it would create action2.
Then go for File–>Open Order and give order number (Ex:5) and ok.Then the script would be

Window(“Flight Reservation”).Activate
Window(“Flight Reservation”).WinMenu(“Menu”).Select “File;Open Order…”
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Dialog(“Open Order”).WinCheckBox(“Order No.”).Set “ON”
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Dialog(“Open Order”).WinEdit(“Edit”).Set “5″
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Dialog(“Open Order”).WinButton(“OK”).Click

Goto insert —>Call to new action and then it would create action3.
Close the Flight Reservation application.Then the script would be

Window(“Flight Reservation”).Activate
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Close

2.How to create actions for data table from Keyword View in qtp

Create Blank TestCase. Goto –>Record .Open ur Flight Reservation application
Action1 :
Do the record for login (Enter Agent Name and Mercury Password).Then the script would be

Action2 :
Goto insert —>Call to new action and then it would create action2.
Then go for File–>Open Order and give orger number (Ex:5) and ok.Then the script would be

Action3 :
Goto insert —>Call to new action and then it would create action3.
Close the Flight Reservation application.Then the script would be

Window(“Flight Reservation”).Activate
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Close

Fill the data in the global sheet. Ex:
Make the A name as Login and B name as Password
Give any name (Ex: venkatesh for login and mercury for password)

Fill the data in the Action2. Ex:
Make the A name as Order Number
Give some numbers (Ex: 3,45,8 )

Goto KeyWord View
Action1
Login :
AgentName Set Value
Click on the value.There choose Parameter:DataTable.
Name :Choose Login
Ok
Same thing for password field.
Name :Choose Password
Ok

Action2
Flight Reservation
Open Order
Edit set “some number” click there
There choose Parameter:DataTable.
Location in the datatable :current action
ok

Now you look into the expert view and see the code .
There automatically code would be change

Goto–Action1–>Right Click–>Action Call Properties–>Run on all rows
Goto–Action2–>Right Click–>Action Call Properties–>Run on all rows

Execute it.

execute it

3.How to create actions for data table in qtp

Action 1:

SystemUtil.Run “C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe”,”",”C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\”,”open”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Agent Name:”).Set DataTable(“Login”, dtGlobalSheet)
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).SetSecure DataTable(“Password”, dtGlobalSheet)
Dialog(“Login”).WinButton(“OK”).Click

Action2 :

Window(“Flight Reservation”).Activate
Window(“Flight Reservation”).WinMenu(“Menu”).Select “File;Open Order…”
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Dialog(“Open Order”).WinCheckBox(“Order No.”).Set “ON”
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Dialog(“Open Order”).WinEdit(“Edit”).Set DataTable(“OpenOrder”, dtLocalSheet)
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Dialog(“Open Order”).WinButton(“OK”).Click

Action3:

Window(“Flight Reservation”).Activate
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Close

4.How to reuse actions in qtp

Step 1:Create Blank Test.
Goto –>Record .Open ur Flight Reservation application

Do the record for login (Enter Agent Name and Mercury Password).Then the script would be

Goto insert —>Call to new action and then it would create action2.
Then go for File–>Open Order and give orger number (Ex:5) and ok.Then the script would be

Goto insert —>Call to new action and then it would create action3.
Close the Flight Reservation application.Then the script would be

Window(“Flight Reservation”).Activate
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Close

Now Goto—>KeyWord view–>Rht Click on Action1 –>Action Properties–>There u choose the option
for Reusable action (Then action1 is called reusable action)
(Note : You need to give the reuasable action to the corresponding action)

Step2 : Now we can use action1 (which we made as reusable)
Create blank test

Goto–>Keyword view–>Rht Click on action1–>Insert Call to Existing Action
There u can browse the actions and choose (Ex:Action1).
Then you can execute

5.How to exit from the test in actions using exittest in qtp
Action1 :

No need to goto record mode.Just goto Object Repository and add objects to local
Open ur flight application and click on log in window.click ok
write the below code in expert view

SystemUtil.Run “C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe”,”",”C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\”,”open”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Agent Name:”).Set “venkatesh”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).SetSecure “4c0616cda83a5c9f88633cdaff4c044c”
Dialog(“Login”).WinButton(“OK”).Click
bexists=Dialog(“Login”).Dialog(“Flight Reservations”).Exist(2)

If bexists Then
smsg=Dialog(“Login”).Dialog(“Flight Reservations”).GetVisibleText
reporter.ReportEvent micFail,”Login”,smsg
Dialog(“Login”).Dialog(“Flight Reservations”).WinButton(“OK”).Click
Dialog(“Login”).WinButton(“Cancel”).Click
exittest

End If

Action2:

Open ur flight application login and login with agent name and pwd
No need to goto record mode.Just goto Object Repository and add objects to local
click on FlightReservation window. click ok
write the below code in expert view

window(“Flight Reservation”).Activate
window(“Flight Reservation”).Close

6.How to exit from the action in actions using exitaction in qtp
Action1 :

No need to goto record mode.Just goto Object Repository and add objects to local
Open ur flight application and click on log in window.click ok
write the below code in expert view

SystemUtil.Run “C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe”,”",”C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\”,”open”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Agent Name:”).Set “venkatesh”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).SetSecure “4c0616cda83a5c9f88633cdaff4c044c”
Dialog(“Login”).WinButton(“OK”).Click
bexists=Dialog(“Login”).Dialog(“Flight Reservations”).Exist(2)

End If

msgbox “it will not execute”

Action2:

window(“Flight Reservation”).Activate
window(“Flight Reservation”).Close

7.How to call action in qtp

(qtp reusable action example)

To call any action in qtp using RunAction, that action should be made as reusable

Follwing example has 3 actions. I am calling Action3 in Action1

Action1 :

SystemUtil.Run “C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe”,”",”C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\”,”open”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Agent Name:”).Set “venkatesh”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).SetSecure “4c0616cda83a5c9f88633cdaff4c044c”
Dialog(“Login”).WinButton(“OK”).Click
bexists=Dialog(“Login”).Dialog(“Flight Reservations”).Exist(2)

End If

runaction “Action3″,oneiteration

Action2 :

msgbox “welcome to action2″

Action3 :

SystemUtil.Run “C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe”,”",”C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\”,”open”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Agent Name:”).Set “venkatesh”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).SetSecure “4c06513879e8c9aae96f878ebd40924cb403de52″
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).Type micReturn
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Close

Execute it.It will execute in the below sequence.
Action1–>Action3
Action2–>Action3

Small Examples in QTP

1.Record and Play Back in qtp (Login and Close)

SystemUtil.Run “C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe”,”",”C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\”,”open”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Agent Name:”).Set “abcd”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).SetSecure “4c03551c45cb9c6ce024f12617d6e7f461936ba5″
Dialog(“Login”).WinButton(“OK”).Click
Window(“Flight Reservation”).Close

2. How to create excel file to store results for qtp

Set xl= CreateObject(“Excel.application”)
xl.Visible = True
xl.Workbooks.add
a=15
b=20

If a>b Then
xl.ActiveSheet.Cells(1,1).Value = a
Reporter.ReportEvent micDone,”a is bigger”, a
Else
xl.ActiveSheet.Cells(1,1).Value = b
Reporter.ReportEvent micDone ,”b is bigger” , b
End If

3. How to store Store results in excel using qtp
‘ This is one of the method for importing excel in qtp

set xl=createobject(“excel.application”)
set wb=xl.workbooks.open(“D:\myexcel.xls”)
a=15
b=20

If a>b Then
wb.ActiveSheet.Cells(1,1).Value = a
Reporter.ReportEvent micDone,”a is bigger”, a
Else
wb.ActiveSheet.Cells(1,1).Value = b
Reporter.ReportEvent micDone ,”b is bigger” , b
End If

wb.save
wb.close

set wb=nothing
set xl=nothing

4.How to use global and Local Data Sheets in qtp

In Blank Test Case by default one action would be created.
Then write the below code in Action1–>Expert View

gd=DataTable(“Names_Global”, dtGlobalSheet)
ld=DataTable(“College”, dtLocalSheet)
msgbox gd&”_”&ld

Goto insert —>Call to new action and then it would create action2
Then write the below code in Action2–>Expert View

gd=DataTable(“Names_Global”,dtGlobalSheet)
ld=DataTable(“Number”,dtLocalSheet)
msgbox gd&”_”&ld

Put any data in Global ,Action1 and Action2 sheets and then execute.
In the above Names_Global,College and Number are the user defined coloumn names in the
corresponding sheets

Parameterization in qtp

Examples for Parameterization in qtp

1. What is parameterization in qtp

Testing an application with different types of inputs for the same script.

There are four types of parameters:

· Data Table: Data table is just an excel sheet where you can put the data and use this data as a parameter.
There are two types of data table in QTP

Global Sheet: The Data in the global sheet will be available to all the Action of the test in which it is defined.
DataTable("Column Name", dtGlobalShet) = "Value" 'To Add the Value in the Current Row
MsgBox DataTable("Column Name", dtGlobalShet) ' To Reterive the value of the current row of specified column
The Number of rows in the Global Data sheet will define the number of the Test Iteration (It's a Test Iteration and not the Action Iteration. All the action in the test will run)
Local Sheet: The Data in the local sheet is available to only that action in which it is defined. Each and every action has it correspondent sheet with name same as actions' name.
You need to change the Action call Properties to run the multiple iteration of the action depends on the data sheet.

· Parameter : It's just like the variable we define in other languages. Here it is provided by QTP. There are Three types of parameter

o Action Parameter : You can Define the parameter per action. This will not be available to any other action in the test. Syntax to access the parameter. Parameter("Name") = Value ' to assign the new value to parameter Msgbox Parameter("Name") ' to use the parameter value.

o Test Parameter: Same as action parameter only the difference is that it will be available to all the actions in the test in which it is define. Syntax to access the Test Parameter. It is useful when you want to pass some parameter from one action to another action in the same test.
TestArgs("Name") = Value ' to assign the new value to parameter.
MsgBox TestArgs("Name") ' to use the Parameter value in test.

o Component Parameter: Same as test parameter. But used in the component.

· Environment Variable : There are actually two kind of Environment variables.

o Build-in: This is the QTP in Build parameter. It containing many of the useful information like UserName, TestDir, etc...

o User-Defined: You can define your own Environment Variable here. There are two kind of user define environment variable

§ Internal: You can define our own variable and it's value here.

§ External : You can use the variables from other XML file. But for that you need to have special XML file as below:

Name
of the Variable
Value you want to assign >

Note: external parameter will be read only parameter

1.How to parameterize through Methods from Keyword View in qtp.

Create Blank TestCase. Goto –>Record .Open ur Flight Reservation application
Action1 :
Do the record for login (Enter Agent Name and Mercury Password).Then the script would be

SystemUtil.Run “C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4a.exe”,””,”C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\”,”open”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Agent Name:”).Set “venkatesh”
Dialog(“Login”).WinEdit(“Password:”).SetSecure “4c04981da8da89eb8a871793145df8e386047656″
Dialog(“Login”).WinButton(“OK”).Click