Just like its Winrunner counterpart, the quick test
professional also comes with an object repository which is the first aspect of
this article that we are going to discuss in this article and the second aspect
to be discussed is regarding the identification of the objects by the quick
test professional.
What is a Object Repository?
- Just like we have a store room and other storage places in our
house, the same way the quick test professional consists of a storage place
where the information regarding the objects can be stored and this storage
place is called the “object repository”.
- During the process of the
identification of the objects, the presence of an interface is necessary between
the application under test and test scripts in order for proper identification
of the objects.
- This interface is provided by none other than the object
repository itself.
- An object can be identified as a run time entity with some
characteristic properties as well as structure.
- Few examples of software
objects are:
- Windows
- Web pages
- Edit boxes
- Buttons
- Check boxes and so on.
What kind of objects QTP recognizes?
Quick test professional recognizes 4 types of objects as
mentioned below:
1. Run time objects
These are the objects that are
present in the application under test or AUT such as links, check boxes,
buttons etc.
2. Test objects
-Run time objects cannot be operated
up on directly rather there references are created which are nothing but
the test objects such as web button, link, win edit and so on.
-These test
objects are referenced by different names in different environments.
3. Utility Objects
- These are the objects that are
reserved by the quick test professional for the purpose of testing as well
as test reporting.
- One such example is the reporter object for displaying
the test results.
4. User defined objects (also known as the automation
objects)
- In most of the cases objects are required that can perform some
specific operations i.e., the user defined operations.
- Such objects are
referred to as the user defined objects.
How QTP recognizes objects?
- For every action that is performed on an object, a local
repository is created by the quick test professional automatically while the
recording is in progress.
- The local object repository is different from the
global object repository in the respect that it cannot be shared among the
tests.
- Additional objects can be added to this repository by the user as well
as the existing ones can be modified.
- Global object repository is more commonly
known as the shared repository.
Now let us focus up on the second aspect of the
quick test professional i.e., the identification of the objects.
- Quick test
professional has got two major mechanisms for accomplishing this task as stated
below:
1. Usual object
identification mechanism
- In this mechanism, the learned description of the object i.e., the one provided by user is followed throughout the identification process for identifying the object.
2. The smart
identification mechanism
- This mechanism is smarter than the former one, more flexible but far complex.
- It comes into play when the first one fails.
- It rejects the description that was used in the first mechanism and prepares a list of objects that resembles properties defined by the quick test professional. - For the smart identification process to work properly it is required that it should be configured properly.
