Advanced QuickTest Professional 9.5

Overview
Take your functional test automation skills to the next level by learning to use the Expert View in QuickTest Professional. Through discussions and hands-on exercises, you will learn to create steps that work with dynamic objects and data, use VBScript conditional and looping statements to control the flow of your tests and components, and use Data Table methods and database connection objects to retrieve external data.

Duration
Two days

Intended Audience

Quality assurance engineers who will assume technical lead roles in the use of QuickTest Professional.

Quality assurance engineers who will support business analysts using Business Process Testing.

Other users of QuickTest Professional who need to customize and enhance their automated tests using scripting.

Prerequisites

Using QuickTest Professional

Prior development experience in any high-level programming language is beneficial.

Course Outline

Course Overview

Introduction to Advanced QuickTest

Introduction to Expert View

Understanding Expert View

Introduction to VBScript or OOP

Translating Steps

Using Expert View

Using the Step Generator

Entering Steps Manually

Debugging the Script

Working with Object Properties

Retrieving Properties of an Object

Using Constants and Variables

Using the Report Utility Object

Working with Dynamic Objects

Using Dynamic Objects

Building an Programmatic Description

Using VBScript

Using VBScript Operators, Statements, and Functions

Working with Dynamic Data

Retrieving Data

Using Looping Statements

Using the Data Table Object

Retrieving External Data

Importing Data

Working with Databases and File Systems

Creating New Procedures

Working with Procedures

Building a Library

Using a Procedure in Different Scenarios

Managing QuickTest Exception Handling

Overview of Exception Handling

Handling Exceptions Through Recovery Scenarios

Handling Exceptions Programmatically