Maintaining qtp object repository best practice for a. Qtp uses this object name to map the object presented in script with its corresponding description in the object repository by using this code. Sometimes qtp does not recognize text in an object using the getroproperty text method. Qtp did a flash like as if it was displaying a new window but i couldnt see it anywhere. So my question is when qtp runs for the first time, i noticed that it takes the two properties to identify the object which is javalist in our case. When product goes in busy mode it doesnt display the busy icon displayed as in general flex products, but gives a circulating wait symbol somewhere on the page which is not identified by qtp. The object identification property will not work with flex controls with currently downloaded version of qtp flex addin only 30 actions can be performed on the test application after which licensing message box appears and will not be able to. If an object with the same name and description is located in both the local object repository and in a shared object repository associated with the same action, the action uses the local object definition. Above are the 3 ways to spy objects from openscript and now you can see how to get details without openscript, if it is a web based application. So, the most important thing to be considered is that when you update how the object should be identified using uft, add properties in the assistive properties, this will make sure that uft uses a just the required properties for the identification of objects. If the object is only partially recognized by qtp and if it is an input field that can accept keyboard inputs they try the qtp sendkey method on that object. The attributes along with corresponding values of the element are seen in object test. Qtp scripts can execute only if the objects are present in the object repository. I probably know the solution that it will be solved through rmi but how to get this problem solved plz help i anyone know the answer.
Not sure if this helps the descriptive programming folks with this issue or not. Aug 14, 2014 while recording, qtp will identify and store peculiar properties as defined in the object identification settings in the object repository of the gui object. Smart identification is nothing but an algorithm used by the qtp when it is not able to recognize an object. Object identification techniques in uft formerly qtp. Qtp dp is a runtime processing of objects which are not located in qtp object repository. Testcomplete treats each process, window, control, etc. In selenium, locators are used to uniquely identify the objects used in the application under test while automating the test cases. Is there a way to get a row count for a datagrid it records the object as swfobjectigrid4. Working with objects in multiple associated repositories with.
Navigates to a resource identified by a url or to a file identified by a full path. At record time qtp learns the important attributes of an object on which an action is performed at run time qtp compares the recorded attributes with attributes of objects available on screen hence, it can identify an object even if the position of the object at record and. All of a sudden one day when i opened the object repository using any of the available methods in qtp, the object repository window would not appear it wasnt showing up anywhere. Object spy is a feature in qtp using which you can view both the test and runtime object properties and methods. After trying a few things, i noticed that when i spied on some of my apps fields that the object recognition was all wrong. Each test object has a set of identification properties to identify it correctly in the application. Download the webpages used in the above tutorial for self practice. I hard coded the value i select from the list and the code is. Qtp performs the operation only after identifying the object uniquely.
Hi all, while running my test i am facing a warning as cannot identify the specified item of the object. Now use the object spy to see the values of the same properties on the webedit that is displayed in your application. Object not visible error is displayed during qtp automation. Click on find a node to inspect object by selecting object in browser in object details panel. Qtp object identification guide to quicktest professional 10. Qtp object identification qtp uses a similar human like technology to identify objects. There are times when we open qtp and try to spy on browser objects or record on them and qtp does not recognize any of them. In qtp, logical name is a name that uniquely identify object with respect of other objects of the application while creating an object in the repository.
Quicktest continues the process described in steps 2 and 3 until it either identifies one object, or runs out of optional filter properties to use. Qtp is unable to identify objects in the browser page 3 micro. You can compare the result with the initial web page see first image in the present article and verify that qtp descriptive programming works correctly it returns correct numbers of objects. When the testers want to perform an operation on an object that is not present in the object repository. Without understanding objects and its properties, qtp will not be able to play back the scripts. Jul 06, 2014 working with objects in multiple associated repositories. Choose environment standard windows then add mandatory property visible for both the dialog class and the winbutton class. Object repository is a collection of object and properties with which qtp will be able to recognize the objects and act on it. If an object with the same name and description is located in more. Downloading files from qc in qtp is not very complex. If still the qtp is unable to identify the object then it will go to the object repository and if at all the ordinal identifier is available in the object repository then it will identify the object roughly using the ordinal identifier.
Java list not being identified by qtp learn qtp uft. In the 3rd stage, uft checks if smart identification is defined and enabled. Quicktest continues the process described in steps 2 and 3 until it either identifies one object, or. I dont want to install qtp but i want that system should use the qtp from another system in lan just the qtp instance should be launched on that system without having qtp installed on it. These methods really helped me automate some old proprietary controls. Object sync with qtp flex application micro focus community. Automation testing tutorial object repository basics. The problem here is that the parent object does not have a visible property enabled by default which leads to the situation that while running qtp is not able to identify popup window. I then tried to install manually the uft agent in chrome but no difference. Hp uftqtp object identification microfocus uft tutorial. Objects identifying as winobjects on ie with qtp uft. Qtp generally identifies an object by matching its test object and run time object properties.
In this series, i will explain how to use html dom, xpath and css for identifying objects in your web application. You can download this article as an ebook for handy reference. When iam trying to add any object it is adding whole window as an object but not identifying particular object which iam pointing to. Object spy, getroproperty, gettoproperty in qtpuft with example. Confirm that the specified item is included in the objects item collection. First of all qtp will use all the properties present in the object repository except ordinal identifier and tries to identify the object.
Qtp 11windows desktop appobjects not identified i have a similar problem automating a citrix app that we are not able to install qtp on. In this article, i will not talk much about the advantages and disadvantages of descriptive programming, rather i will focus much on how and where to use the technique of descriptive programming. It works by identifying the objects in the application user interface or a web page and. Now second time the list has 2 values and qtp denies to recognise it. When a user records a test, the objects and its properties are captured by default. Each object repository entry will be identified by a logical name determined automatically by quicktest, and will contain a set of properties type, name, etc that uniquely identify each object. The tdconnection object in qtp tutorial 03 may 2020 learn. Open the object repository and look at the properties that describe the test object. Are ordinal identifiers used when mandatory and assistive properties used by qtp are not enough to identify object. Qtp stores object and its properties in the object repository to identify them during runtime. It is capable in testing hashmaps and recording objects that cant be identified by normal recording mode. Object identification is very important part of automation.
Any further idea of how to troubleshoot the object identification. Qtp object identification differs with rft, in rft object identification is on oops concept. Qqttpp iinntteerrvviieeww qquueessttiioonnss dear readers, these qtp interview questions have been designed specially to get you. So when qtp runs for the first iteration the list has 4 values and qtp has no problem identifying the java list. Object spy, getroproperty, gettoproperty in qtp uft with. Apparently that object does not have a getitemscount or getitem method. Object identification and object repositories in qtp blogs. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. At record time qtp learns the important attributes of an object on. Objects in the webpage are not identified by qtp 260417 3. Getroproperty is an inbuilt method used to retrieve the runtime value of an object property. I said descriptive, and i written code for that also, he is not interested on descriptive thats it my interview based on this he decided my 6 yrs of automation experience even i worked as onsite usa qtp. Micro focus unified functional testing uft, formerly known as quicktest professional qtp.
Qtp is not recognising java objects software quality. In order to identify the object uniquely it uses property values of the respective object which will be stored in the object repository. Im going to explain and show qtp descriptive programming. I see that with the swfcombobox i can get a row count getitemscount and the values getitemi. Qtp not identifying java objects if this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Then i deleted and and recaptured the windbutton object and all was well. Consider an example where you are having a tree with nodescan be folder or directory. To avoid this, qtp by default does not store all the properties of an object but a limited no of typical properties for an object which helps in its unique identification.
Qtp identifies the object in the application by logicalname and class. Resolving object identification issues runtime automated360. According to the post in hp uft community home qtp 11. Descriptive programming has become a choice by most qtp automation testers. Understanding object identification in selenium lets. In qtp, objects properties help in identifying the gui object. Objects identifying as winobjects on ie with qtpuft. Default object naming using the default object names given by testcomplete itself. Which makes object identification difficult and fails the scripts.
If the usual object identification process fails, micro focus uft triggers. Object spy gives the complete hierarchy of the object you have selected. Name mapping map application objects to custom names and then uses these names to refer to the objects in your tests. How object identification works in uftqtp advance concepts. When objects in the application are very dynamic in nature. Navigate2 navigates the browser to a location that might not be expressed as a url, such as a pointer to an item identifier list pidl for an entity in the windows shell namespace. I want to run my qtp scipt on the system where qtp is not installed. If however, vri was not defined or severalnone of the objects get identified using vri, the object identification process is handled by the third stage.
As i already mentioned the attached text in the object repository is available. Working with objects in multiple associated repositories. So java objects are identified as os windows objects expected. You should find a mismatch, now you have to decide if the new values are what you expect to see in which case you can use the update from application button or if both values are acceptable. These object identification strategies are widely used in open source tools like selenium, watir etc. To buildexecute the automated tests, uft will need a way to create the unique object description properties with value for storing the object descriptions to the files object repositories, and identify these objects during execution for performing the desired. I have selected all plugins like web, visual basic etc. Aug 08, 2008 the result of this qtp script is the following. The object identification property will not work with flex controls. Object spy, getroproperty, gettoproperty in qtpuft with. This tutorial demonstrates how qtp identifies an on screen gui object and the concept of q. How to identify dynamically changing objects in qtp.
While recording, qtp will identify and store peculiar properties as defined in the object identification settings in the object repository of the gui object. Qtp may fail to recognize the dynamic objects whose properties change during run time. By keeping the file in qc attachments and download to the local by using ota. The tdconnection object in qtp tutorial 03 may 2020.
A test object is an object used by qtp to represent an object in our aut application under test. At the run time testcomplete uses the stored reference to forward the method calls to the mapped object. Qtp descriptive programming how to get number of objects. When we map the object of application under test for first time using namemapping or aliases, testcomplete searches for the object in the object tree and stores a reference to this object.
There are 4 steps involved in using the getroproperty. Qtp 11windows desktop app objects not identified i have a similar problem automating a citrix app that we are not able to install qtp on. May 08, 2010 navigates to a resource identified by a url or to a file identified by a full path. If it fails then it will enter into the smart brain by forgetting about all the properties present in the object repository and then considers all the base filter properties and try to match with all the. But qtp is not identifying any objects like button, dropdown in the. Micro focus uft may not recognize customized user interface objects and other. Well, of course, hps position is that its best to install.
Software testing qtp quick test professional qtp testing process test object model qtp object repositories descriptive programming in qtp. Now if a unique object is identified, the flow is complete. Remember that qtp addin manager loads at run time only and if you are not seeing this at startup then it could be disabled within qtp tools options general. Open openscript ide and then navigate to view object details as below. What i do is have a function that finds given text in an object in this case just the window that can be seen. To view the property values of the object, qtp uses object spy. Error cannot identify the specified item of the object. In the object details panel,click on connect to browser. Home test complete resolving object identification issues runtime. For example, this can happen if your combobox contains values abc, def, ghi and you are trying to selecet nonexistant value, for example xyz. The descriptions of the objects are created using descriptive programming. Qtp object identification i am sure most of you could successfully identified the names.
Qtp unable to identify pop up window learn qtp uft. If qtp will try and remember all the available properties for an object, size of object repository will bloat and script execution time will increase drastically. Smart identification in qtpuft with example guru99. Download micro focus unified functional testing uft. So one should first learn how to identify the objects.
If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the faq by clicking the link above. Jan 04, 2011 remember that qtp addin manager loads at run time only and if you are not seeing this at startup then it could be disabled within qtp tools options general. A better way to handle this would be by not using specific objects at. Step 1 record the object on which you want to use the getroproperty in object repository. How does qtp identifies the object in the application. Also for my clarification i added gettoporperties in my code. As a last resort, try using the getvisibletext, gettextlocation and type methods. Step 2 for the recorded object identifies the runtime property which could be used. Hence it has an option of enabling smart identification, wherein it can identify the objects even if. All test objects also have a collection of associated properties and methods which we can use to retrieveset values or to perform various.
Each line in the quicktest script will contain a reference to the object that you interacted with, a call to the appropriate method set, click. A fantasy of qtp qtp has a unique feature by the name smart object identification or recognition which is used for identifying the objects smartly, whenever the normal identification fails due to the dynamic changes in the properties of the objects. If the object position never changes and there is another mapped object close to it that also never changes position, you could use this second object as a relation to the one your are trying to map. Uft is a test automation tool and in terms of uft, every control or window visible on the screen is an object. Stack overflow for teams is a private, secure spot for you and your coworkers to find and share information. Qtp uft flight reservation cannot identify the object hpe. The tree as a whole is designed as a web table and sub folders again as sub web table. If you go to flight reservation window and click on flight button you can see this winlist.