Creating a CHECKPOINT on a Web object is similar to creating a checkpoint on any standard object. You can create a text checkpoint on a Web Application to check if a text string appears at the appropriate position on a Web page of the application.
To insert a text checkpoint from ACTIVE SCREEN:
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Once the Web Add-in is loaded, the Test SETTINGS will have a Web tab. The BROWSER navigation timeout allows 60 seconds for a page to load by default.
To change the browser Timeout settings:
From the QuickTest Professional menu bar, select FILE ? SETTINGS. The TEST SETTINGS dialog box appears.
Click the WEB tab.
The WEB tab [...]
After you record a Test, you run the test to verify the test Results. You run a test on a Web Application just as you run a test on a Windows-based application. The only difference is that you open a Web browser before playing back a test on a Web application.
To run [...]
Before you initiate a record session, you need to set the record and run settings for the Web Application that you want to Test.
To set the record and run settings:
From the QuickTest Professional menu bar, select AUTOMATION ? RECORD AND RUN SETTINGS. The RECORD AND RUN SETTINGS dialog box appears. displays the RECORD [...]
The process of automating tests for Web applications is similar to the process of automating tests for Windows-based applications. For Web applications, you use a Web browser to record and run tests.
Note: You can record tests on Web applications in QuickTest Professional only by using Microsoft Internet Explorer. However, you can run [...]
The Step Generator enables you to add steps to a Test by selecting from a range of context-sensitive Options. Using the STEP GENERATOR dialog box, you can add steps that perform operations using the following criteria:
1) CATEGORY: Specifies an object or function that the step performs. The options available in the CATEGORY [...]
You can use the Reporter object to Report whether the result of the step was as expected.
The REPORTEVENT method of the REPORTER object reports an event to the Test Results.
Reporting an Event: To add a REPORT event from KEYWORD VIEW:
From the QuickTest Professional menu bar, select INSERT ? REPORT. The INSERT [...]
If the condition that you have specified in the IF statement is false, the statements following the ELSE statement are executed.
Note: The ELSE statement is optional.
To add an ELSE statement:
In KEYWORD VIEW, select the step that contains the IF statement.
From the QuickTest Professional menu bar, select INSERT ? CONDITIONAL STATEMENT ? ELSE. The [...]
Conditional statements enable you to control the flow of your Test or component. You use the IF … THEN and ELSE statement to incorporate decision-making in your tests. The IF … THEN statement evaluates whether a condition is true. If the condition is true, the statements following IF … THEN are [...]
After Recording a Test, you can enhance your test with programming statements. You add these programming statements in the KEYWORD VIEW.
TheseProgramming statements can contain:
Recordable test object methods and operations that you can perform on an Application but do not want to record.
Non-recordable test object methods and operations that you cannot perform on an [...]