I keep seeing code like this:
.WebButton("locator1", "locator2", "locator3")
What is the type of arguments in WebButton, WebElement, WebEdit etc ? I tried passing an array to .WebButton. So, qtp told me its not the correct type. Is there an alternate way to pass multiple locators ?
Also, what is the return type of .WebButton, .WebElement etc. ?
The "arguments" which you are talking about are the set of properties which are needed by QTP/UFT to identify that particular object(WebElement, WebEdit etc.) uniquely so that one can perform actions on them.
Also, this is not some sort of a function that is going to return you any value.
If you are not sure about what properties you need to mention in those brackets, an easier way would be to add that object to the Object Repository and drag that object from OR to your script. After that you can perform any action on those objects.
If you do not want to use OR, then you need to make use of, what we call, Descriptive Programming(DP) wherein you have to mention the object property names and their values "explicitly" in the script.
Remember that the sole purpose of mentioning these properties is to help QTP identify the objects in your application so that you can perform actions on them(like click, set etc.)
Here are a few links which can help you:
http://www.learnqtp.com/descriptive-programming-simplified/
http://www.guru99.com/quick-test-professional-qtp-tutorial-6.html
http://www.guru99.com/quick-test-professional-qtp-tutorial-32.html
EDIT 2 - for answering your question in the comment:
.WebButton("Locator1","Locator2","Locator3") means .webButton("property1:=value1","property2:=value2","property3:=value3")
Now, I could have only mentioned property-value pair1(which you are referring to as "Locator1") only If it alone was sufficient for identifying that webbutton. If only 1 property-value pair cannot help UFT in UNIQUELY recognizing the webbutton, then I have to provide another property-value pair until I have provided enough of them so that QTP recognizes that webbutton uniquely. Since, I have provided multiple property-value pairs(or locators), they have to be separated by commas. If there was only one property-value pair, no comma is needed. All this explanation only applies to the case when we are using Descriptive Programming. If we are not using Descriptive programming, then in that case the objects and their properties&values are stored in the Object Repository and you just have to mention their logical names(say Button1 as stored in OR) in the script like:
.webButon("Button1")
To understand more, you need to do some more research on "How object Identification works in UFT/QTP"
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Is there any way to write a custom function that uses the same pattern as the Open function? Including the fluff keywords like For and As?
Background
I am working on migrating an old VB6 project to use online data via an API, as a first step I'd like to replace all instances of
Open SomeFilename For Binary Access Read As #39
With a custom OpenOnline function
OpenOnline SomeFilename For Binary Access Read As #39
But I do not know how to indicate those keywords are necessary when creating a function, or even if it's possible to do so.
Function openOnline(FileName As String) [For] (Optional Access As AccessType = Binary Access) [As] (Optional FileNumber As Integer) As Boolean
' Do the work of connecting to the online data equivalent of FileName with that access type
End Function
Qualifiers
I understand that these keywords are nonsensical in the context of an OpenOnline function. I also understand that I can use regular expressions to find and replace the syntax to remove keywords like "For" and "Read".
There are hundreds of thousands of instances of this Open function, the Put and Get functions and a few other file related functions, I realize that long term the correct solution is changing the mechanisms fundamentally to use online paradigms, and that work is in progress- on schedule to be completed with about 4 months of effort at the rate things are going.
Bonus Question
Secondarily, is there any way for me to pass a "User Defined Type" variable to the new Put/Get replacements in a way that I can access their fields directly without knowing the type beforehand? (I understand that variants are only available for .cls classes or public user defined types in dlls, neither of which apply in this situation)
As for 1), you can get close but you can't exactly replicate the VB Open statement. Which means you won't get around of some search & replace passes for the current Open statement lines with your newly created one.
For 2), can you illustrate that with an example? I'm trying to think of a situation where you know the UDT member's name in advance, but not its type.
That said, perhaps looking at VB's VarType function gives you an idea for solving that.
I Have two objects in same page but with different locations(tabs), I want to verify those objects each a part ...
i cant uniquely any of objects because the have same properties.
These objects clearly are unique to a point because they have completely different text, this means that you will be able to create an object to match only one of them. My suggestion would be to look for the object by using its text property, one of them will always have "Top Ranking" the other you wil need to turn into a regular expression for the text and will be something "Participants (\d+)".
I am assuming that this next answer is unlikely to be possible so saved it for after the answer you are likely to use but the best solution would of course be to get someone with access to give these elements ids for you to search for. This will in the long term be much easier for you to maintain and not using text will allow this test to run in any language.
Manaysah, do these objects have different indexes? Use the object spy and determine which index they have, the ordinal identifier index may be a solution to your problem. You could also try adding an innertext object property if possible, using a wildcard for the number inside the () as it appears dynamic.
try using xpath for the objects...xpath will definitely be different
I'm currently working with JMeter in order to stress test one of our systems before release. Through this, I need to simulate users clicking links on the webpage presented to them. I've decided to extract theese links with an XPath Post-Processor.
Here's my problem:
I have an a XPath expression that looks something like this:
//div[#data-attrib="foo"]//a//#href
However I need to extract a specific child for each thread (user). I want to do something like this:
//div[#data-attrib="foo"]//a[position()=n]//#href
(n being the current index)
My question:
Is there a way to make this query work, so that I'm able to extract a new index of the expression for each thread?
Also, as I mentioned, I'm using JMeter. JMeter creates a variable for each of the resulting nodes, of an XPath query. However it names them as "VarName_n", and doesn't store them as a traditional array. Does anyone know how I can dynamicaly pick one of theese variables, if possible? This would also solve my problem.
Thanks in advance :)
EDIT:
Nested variables are apparently not supported, so in order to dynamically refer to variables that are named "VarName_1", VarName_2" and so forth, this can be used:
${__BeanShell(vars.get("VarName_${n}"))}
Where "n" is an integer. So if n == 1, this will get the value of the variable named "VarName_1".
If the "n" integer changes during a single thread, the ForEach controller is designed specifically for this purpose.
For the first question -- use:
(//div[#data-attrib="foo"]//a)[position()=$n]/#href
where $n must be substituted with a specific integer.
Here we also assume that //div[#data-attrib="foo"] selects a single div element.
Do note that the XPath pseudo-operator // typically result in very slow evaluation (a complete sub-tree is searched) and also in other confusing problems ( this is why the brackets are needed in the above expression).
It is recommended to avoid using // whenever the structure of the document is known and a complete, concrete path can be specified.
As for the second question, it is not clear. Please, provide an example.
I want to get textbox's object ID which is dynamic
Application is windows application developed in c#.net
how to record and get object ID using QTP??
There is no straight answer to your question unless one personally analyzes the scenario, however below are some solutions which may be applicable.
Try to identify any unique property of the object other than one, which qtp recognizes while recording and do descriptive programming. (In your case if object ID is a number then go for some text describing the textbox).
If this is not possible do descriptive programming with regular expression matching all the property value that the object have.
Thanks
identify unique property of the object, which qtp recognizes while recording and do programming.If not possible do with regular expression matching all the property of the object.
Option 1: Reconfigure your object identification configuration so QTP uses different identification properties (see documentation).
Option 2: Use descriptive programming to address the control using an appropriate (unique) combination of attributes (see documentation).
Use option 1 if the control type always needs nonstandard handling in terms of identification. Use option 2 for exceptions.
I made a report with about 30 different rectangles and textboxes that have different visibility expressions depending on the parameters. (It's a student invoice and many different messages have to appear depending on the semester) When I made all the expressions I coded in the parameters in all upper case. Now I have a problem when users enter lowercase letters, the SQL all works fine since it is not case sensitive, but the different rectangles and textboxes don't show. Is there a way in the report code to first capitalize all the parameters before running the SQL? Or do I actually have to go back to every visibility expression and add separate iif's for upper and lower case? (That seems incredibly silly to have to do). I can't change my parameters to numbers because I have been given strict requirements for input. Thanks.
I do not know if this is the most elegant solution, but you could accomplish this by following this procedure for every parameter on the Report Parameters page:
1)Re-name the parameter, leaving its prompt as that of the old parameter.
2)Add a new parameter with the same name as the old parameter.
3)Mark this new parameter as Hidden.
4)Make sure that the new parameter's available values are marked as non-queried(available values will never be actually used.)
5)Mark the Default Values as Non-queried, using the following syntax:
=ucase(Parameters!OldParameterName.Value)
Can't you just UCASE the params (do it in the xml view, it will be quicker and you might even be able to do a regex find/replace)