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HP QTP Tutorial Chapter 5

1 Insert The Insert Menu will help you in inserting various verification points, New Steps, Function, and Call to Action etc. While describing the various commands which are available in Insert Menu, I will also be mentioning the hot keys to access some of the commands. See the below screen shot what command is available in the INSERT Menu: 1.1 Checkpoint Let me first describe what a checkpoint is all about. The Checkpoints feature is provided in Automation Tool for simplifying the test case automation where you need to validate the state of the application. For e.g. You might want to test that when you open a web page or form, you will be able to see 5 Input Boxes and 2 Buttons. Out of the 5 Input Boxes, 3 should be editable, 2 should be ready only. Likewise 2 Buttons – 1 will be disabled by default and 1 will be enabled by default. In such a case you can use Tool Checkpoint feature. I hope this now clarify what is a checkpoint and its usage. If you read the QTP documentation i

HP QTP Tutorial Chapter 4

1 View Menu The View Menu will provide you the options for setting the view of your Test. You can choose to view or hide the various options available under View Menu. The below section will outline the important information on the options of View Menu. See the below screen shot for the options available under View Menu: 1.1 Active Screen The Active Screen is a screen which shows the Screen Shot capture while doing the recording. You will be able to see the Screen Shot, if your QTP Settings allow capturing Active Screen. If you are not able to see the Active Screen after recording is completed, just goto View->Active Screen (Check for a tick mark against this option in View Menu). See the bottom panel where you will see an Active Screen Tab. (See screen shot below) As a best practice, you can enable this option but while saving the Test, do not save Active Screen with your test; it will unnecessarily increase the resources on your drive.  1.2 Available Keywords This is

HP Quick Test Professional Tutorial Chapter 3

1 Edit Menu In Edit Menu, the first 7 commands are very self explanatory, which you can find in any GUI based application. You will find Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete, Copy Documentation to Clipboard (used for copying the documentation column value into notepad, ms word etc.).The below command are also very self explanatory and will get active when you are in Expert View mode. The commands are Find, Replace, Goto, Bookmarks. In this paper, we will cover Action (Split Action, Rename Action, Delete Action, Action Properties, Action Call Properties), Step Properties (Object Properties, Checkpoint Properties, Output Value Properties), Advanced (Comment, Uncomment, Indent, Outdent, Goto Function Definition, Complete Word, Argument Info, Apply “with” to script, Remove “with” statements) & Optional Step. 1.1 Action As the name suggests, ACTION command can be used for doing manipulation on the QTP Actions. If you do not know what an ACTION is, then let me define for you. A