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Overview on Test Automation & Types of Test Tool

• Drawbacks of Manual Testing
• Advantages of Test Automation
• Drawbacks of Test Automation
• Types of Test Tool (Business Classification)
• Types of Test Tool (Technical Classification) 

Basic Features of UFT 

• Supporting Environments
• Version History
• Types of License
• Built-in features
• Integrated Tools (from HP)
• Integrated Tools (Others)

UFT Test Process  

• Planning 
• Generating Basic Tests
• Enhancing Tests
• Debugging Tests
• Running Tests 
• Analyzing Test Results 
• Reporting Defects

Key Elements of UFT

• Test Pane
• Active Screen
• Data Table
• Debug Viewer
• Missing Resources
• Information
• UFT Commands

Recording & Running Tests 

• Recording Process
• Running Process
• Recording Modes
• Advantages of Recording
• Drawbacks of Recording

Software objects & Types of object in UFT 

• Runtime Objects
• Test Objects
• Utility Objects
• Automation Objects

Object Repository 

• Local Repository
• Shared Repository

Operations on Object Repository 

• Adding Objects
• Renaming Objects
• Deleting Objects
• Associating Object Repositories to an Action
• Exporting Local Objects 
• Merging Repositories
• View Options
• Spying Objects
• Importing and Exporting Repositories using XML
• Defining New Test Objects 

Keyword-driven methodology 

•  Generating Tests Manually through Expert view
•  Generating Steps through Keyword view
•  Generating statements through Step Generator
   

Object Identification Configuration

• Normal Identification
• Mandatory Properties
• Assertive Properties
• Smart Identification
• Base filter Properties
• Option filter properties
• Ordinal Identifier
• Making Tool Settings Global   

Virtual Object Configuration 

• Virtual Object Manager
• Defining a Virtual Object
• Removing or Disabling Virtual Object Definitions 

Descriptive Programming

• Advantages of Descriptive Programming
• Static Programming
• Dynamic Programming
• Creating Library files using Constants /Collection objects
• Handling Dynamic Objects
• Handling duplicate Objects
• Retrieving Child Objects

Methods/Operations
(Activate Click, Close, dblclick, Set, SetSecure, Select, GetVisibleText, GetRoProperty, GetContent, GetItemsCount, GetItem, Sync, Navigate, WaitProperty and Others…)

Inserting Check points

• Standard Checkpoint 
• Text Checkpoint
• Text Area Checkpoint
• Bitmap Checkpoint
• Database Checkpoint
• Accessibility Checkpoint
• XML Checkpoint (From Application)
• XML Checkpoint (From Resource)
• Page Checkpoint
• Image Checkpoint
• Table Checkpoint 

Inserting Output values

• Standard Output value
• Text Output value
• Text Area Output value
• Database Output value
• XML Output value (From Application)
• XML Output value (From Resource)

Synchronization

• Inserting Wait Statement
• Inserting Synchronization Point
• Increasing Tool Default Synchronization Time
• Sync method (only for web)
• Selecting appropriate method   

Parameterization

•  Data Driven Testing through Loop statements
•  Dynamic Test Data Submission through Looping
•  Data Driven Testing through Data Table
•  Importing Test Data from External files (Text and Excel Files)
•  Creating a Database, Tables and Entering Data
•  Creating DSN
•  Importing Test Data from Databases
•  Data Driven Testing using Data Table Methods
•  Data-Driven Testing by fetching the Test Data directly from a Text file
•  Data Driven Testing by fetching the Test Data directly from an Excel file
•  Data Driven Testing by fetching the Test Data directly from a Database
   

Actions

1. Types of actions
2. Non-reusable Actions
3. Re-Usable actions
4. External Actions

                    Creating an Action

                    Splitting Actions

                    Renaming an Action

                    Deleting an Action

                    Making an Reusable/Non-Reusable

                    Calling an existing Action

                    Copying an Actions

                    Action Parameters 

Environment Variables

• Built-in Variables
• User Defined Variables
• Defining, modifying and associating environment variables
• Loading Environment file during run-time
   

Inserting Transaction Points

• Start Transaction & End Transaction
• Timer Function
• Defining Test Results 

Adding Comments

• Purpose of Comments
• Basic Syntax
• Comment a Block of Statements
• Uncomment a Block

• Test Batch Runner
• Creating Test Batches
• Providing permission to Test Batch Runner
• Running Test Batches
• Running Partial Batches
   

Recovery Scenarios

          Trigger events

•  Pop-Up window
• Object State
• Test Run Error
• Application Crash 

         Recovery Operations

• Keyboard or Mouse Operation
• Close Application Process
• Function Call
• Restart Microsoft Windows
• Creating Recovery Scenarios
• Associating Recovery Scenarios                                             

         Quality Center (Site Administration)

•  Creating Domains/ Deleting domains
•  Creating a project/ deleting a project
•  Creating users
•  Deleting users
•  Assigning users to a project
• Tracking a project status 

        Quality Center

a) Requirements
Creating/Modifying/Deleting test requirements and child requirements
b) Test plan
Creating/Modifying/Viewing/Deleting manual as well as automated tests
Mapping requirements with test cases
Exporting Manual test cases to quality center project
Exporting UFT tests to quality center project
c) Test Lab
Creating folders
Forming test batches
Executing manual and automated tests
d) Defects
Posting defects
Tracking defects
Sending defects directly from UFT result window

VB Script Fundamentals & Features

• Scripting Languages vs. Programming Languages
• Basic Features of VBScript
• Hosting Environments & Script Engines
• Crating & Running a Script 

Data Types, Variables 

• VBScript data types
• Declaring Variables and Option Explicit Statement
• Assigning Values to Variables
• Scalar Variables and Array Variables
• Dynamic Arrays, Dimensional Arrays
   

  Comments
  Constants
  Operators

• Operator Precedence
• Arithmetic Operators
• Comparison Operators
• Concatenation Operators
• Logical Operators 

   Flow Control (Conditional Statements  )

• VBScript Conditional Statements
• Running a statement if condition is true (Single line Syntax)
• Running a block of Statements if Condition is true
• Running Certain Statements if a Condition is True and Running Others if a Condition is False
• Deciding Among Several Alternatives (IF..Else If…)
• Executing a certain block of statements when two / more conditions are True (Nested If…)
• Deciding among several Alternatives (Select Case Statement)

Flow Control (Looping through the Code)

• Do…Loop (Loops while or until a condition is True.)
• While…Wend (Loops while a condition is True.)
• For…Next: Uses a counter to run statements a specified number of times.
• For Each…Next (Repeats a group of statements for each item in a collection or each element of an array.)
• Nested Loops

• Conversions (Cdbl. Cint etcc…)
• Dates/Times (Date, Time, Now, IsDate, DateDiff, etc…)
• Formatting Strings
• Input/Output (InputBox and MsgBox)
• Math
• Miscellaneous
• Rounding 
• Strings (Len, Left, Right, Mid Etc….)
• Arrays (Array, IsArray, Split etc..)
• Variants

File System Operations

• Computer File System
• OS Distribution
• FileSystemObject

Examples:

• Create a Folder
• Check if the Folder Exist or not? If not create the Folder
• Copy a Folder
• Delete a folder
• Return a Collection of Disk Drives
• Get available space on a Drive
• Creating a Text File
• Check if the File Exist or not? If not create the File
• Read Data Character by Character from a text file
• Read Line by Line from a Text File
• Data Driven Testing by fetching Test data directly from a Text file.
• Write Data to a Text File
• Delete a Text File
• Check if the File Exists or not? If Exists delete the File
• Calculate size of a Text File
• Compare Two Text File by Size, by Text and by Binary values
• Count the number of times a word appears in a Text File
• Capture all Button Names and Export to a Text File
• Capture Customer Names from 1 to 10 Orders in FR and export to a Text File
   

Excel Object Model:

• Creating an Automation Object in Excel.Application class

Excel Scripting Examples:

• Create an Excel file, enter some data and save the file through VB script? 
• Check if the Excel file exists or not, if exists open the file and enter some data, If not Exists create the file and enter some data and save the file through VB script? 
• Data Driven Testing through an External Excel Sheet
• Data Driven Testing using Data Table methods
• Calculator Example using Data Table methods
• Open an Excel Spreadsheet
• Read an Excel Spreadsheet
• Add Formatted Data to a Spreadsheet
• Sort an Excel Spreadsheet on Three Different Columns
• Short an excel sheet column
• Add New Sheet to Excel File
• Rename Sheets in an Excel File (WorkBook)
• Add a Sheet to an Excel File (WorkBook) and change the Position
   

• ActiveX Data Objects
• ADODB Connection Object & Recordset Object
• Test Database Creation & Collecting Test Data
• Databases Connections (Ms-Access, SQL Server and Oracle)
• Data-Driven Testing by fetching Data from a Database
• Data Comparisons

• Understanding & Using Regular Expressions
• Handling Dynamic Objects
• Using Regular Expressions in Checkpoints
• Defining Regular Expressions
• Search Operations
• Regular expressions in Recovery scenarios
• Regular Expression Object
   

• Overview on Error Handling
• Error Handling Methods in UFT
• Synchronization
• Exist Property
• Exit Statement
• On Error Statement
• Recovery scenarios
   

• Automation Framework, Types of Framework
• Creating Folder Structure
• Creating & Storing Automation Resources
• Organizing & Managing Resources
• Generating Driver Scripts
• Generating Initialization Script (AOM Script)
   

• Test Data Collection
• Ways of Parameterization
• Data Driven Implementation Techniques
• Using Data Table Methods
   

• Keywords
• Keyword Driven Approach
• Creating Functions
• Creating Test Automation resources
• Creating Organizer Spread sheet
• Generating the Driver Script
• Generating the Initialization Script
   

• Hybrid Automation Framework
• Keyword Driven & Data Driven Test Approach
• Advantages of Hybrid Approach
• Organizing & Managing Resources

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