Creating Checkpoints

Creating a Standard Checkpoint

·         Click the Insert Checkpoint toolbar button       or choose Insert > Checkpoint > Standard Checkpoint.

• Click the object you want to check. The Select an Object dialog box opens.
• Select the item you want to check from the displayed object tree.
• Click OK. The Checkpoint Properties dialog box opens.
• Specify the settings for the checkpoint.
• Click OK to close the dialog box.

Creating a Text Checkpoint

·         Display the page, window, or screen containing the text you want to check.

• 
  Choose Insert > Checkpoint > Text Checkpoint,      or click the arrow next to the Insert Checkpoint button and Choose Text Checkpoint.
• The Quick Test window is minimized and the mouse pointer turns into a pointing hand.
• Click the text string for which you want to create the checkpoint. If the area you defined is associated with more than one object, the Object Selection–Text Checkpoint

      Properties dialog box opens. Select the required object

• The Text Checkpoint Properties dialog box opens.
• Specify the checkpoint settings.
• Click OK to close the dialog box.

Use regular expressions

Regular expressions enable Quick Test to identify objects and text strings with varying values.

You can use regular expressions when:

• Defining the property values of an object
• Parameterize a step
• Creating checkpoints with varying values

For example, if a window title bar's name changes according to a file name, you can use a regular expression to identify a window whose title bar has the specified product name, followed by a hyphen, and then any other text.

A regular expression is a string that specifies a complex search phrase. By using special characters such as a period (.), asterisk (*), caret (^), [A-Z] and brackets ([ ]), you can define the conditions of a search. When one of these special characters is preceded by a backslash (\), Quick Test searches for the literal character.

To define a constant property value as a regular expression:

• Open the Object Properties dialog box for the object either form test tree or from Active Screen or from Object Repository
• In the Property column, select the property you want to set as a regular expression.
• In the Edit value section, click Constant.
• Click the Edit Constant Value Options button. The Constant Value Options dialog box pens.
• Select the Regular Expression check box.
• In the Value box, enter the regular expression syntax for the string.
• Click OK to close the Constant Value Options dialog box.
• Click OK to save and close the Object Properties

To parameterize a property value using regular expressions:

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To define a regular expression in an object checkpoint:

• Display the page, window, or screen containing the text you want to check.
• Choose Insert > Checkpoint > Text Checkpoint, or click the arrow next to the Insert Checkpoint button and choose Text Checkpoint.
• Click the text string for which you want to create the checkpoint.
• Select the object for which you are creating the checkpoint.  The Text Checkpoint Properties dialog box opens.

• In the Edit value section, click Constant.
• Click the Edit Constant Value Options button. The Constant Value Options dialog box opens.
• Select the Regular Expression check box.
• In the Value box, enter the regular expression syntax for the string.
• Click OK to close the Constant Value Options dialog box.

• Click OK to save and close Text Checkpoint Properties dialog box.

Common options to create regular expressions.

.	Matching Any Single Character
[xy]	Matching Any Single Character in a List
[^xy]	Matching Any Single Character Not in a List
[x-y]	Matching Any Single Character within a Range
*	Matching Zero or More Specific Characters
+	Matching One or More Specific Characters
?	Matching Zero or One Specific Character
( )	Grouping Regular Expressions
|	Matching One of Several Regular Expressions
^	Matching the Beginning of a Line
$	Matching the End of a Line
\w	Matching Any Alphanumeric Character Including the Underscore
\W	Matching Any Non-Alphanumeric Character

You can combine regular expression operators in a single expression to achieve the exact search criteria you need.