Introduction to the Expert View

1.1 Object Model in the Expert View

The Expert View provides an alternative to the Tree View for testers who are familiar with VBScript. In the Expert View, you can view the recorded test in VBScript and enhance it with programming.

The Expert View displays the steps you executed while recording your test in VBScript. After you record your test, you can increase its power and flexibility by adding recordable and non-recordable VBScript statements. You can add statements that perform operations on objects or retrieve information from your site. For example, you can add a step that checks that an object exists, or you can retrieve the return value of a method.

The objects in Quick Test are divided by environment. Quick Test environments include standard Windows objects, Visual Basic objects, ActiveX objects, Web objects, Multimedia objects, as well as objects from other environments available as external add-ins.

Most objects have corresponding methods. For example, the Back method is associated with the Browser object.

In the following example, the user enters mercury in the User Name edit box while recording. The following line is recorded in the Expert View:

Browser ("Mercury_Tours"). Page ("Mercury_Tours"). WebEdit ("username").Set "mercury"

When running the test, the Set method inserts the mercury text into the WebEdit object.

In the following example, the user selects Paris from the Departure City list box while recording. The following line is recorded in the Expert View:

Browser("Mercury Tours").Page("Find Flights").WebList("depart").Select "Paris"

When the test runs, the Select method selects Paris in the WebList object.

 

1.2 Using Quick Test Professional’s online books

Quick Test Professional documentation helps you take full advantage of he capabilities of this powerful, easy-to-use, testing tool.

·   Quick Test Professional User’s Guide—provides step-by-step instructions on how to use Quick Test to test your applications. It describes many useful features, options, and testing procedures with guidelines and helpful examples.

·   Quick Test Professional Installation Guide—explains how to install Quick Test Professional.

·   Quick Test Professional Tutorial—teaches you basic Quick Test skills and shows you how to start testing your applications.

·   Quick Test Professional Object Model Reference—provides access to the Quick Test Professional VBScript methods, including a description of each object, a list of the methods associated with each object, description syntax, and an example of usage for each object and method.

·   Quick Test Professional Shortcut Key Reference Card—provides a list of commands that you can execute using shortcut keys.    

·   Quick Test Professional Automation Object Model Reference — (available from the Quick Test Professional Start menu program folder and from the Quick Test Professional Help menu) provides syntax, descriptive information, and examples for the automation objects, methods, and properties. It also contains a detailed overview to help you get started writing Quick Test automation scripts.