Working in Automation Testing

How to check if a process is still running in your windows

2013-01-30T08:30:00.000-08:00

Many times your script need to know if a program or for example a bat file is still running. so, how you can check it using VBScript.

Below is the code which you can use to check if a process/program is still running

sub p_check()
with createobject("shell.application")
for each wndw in .windows
locationurl_ = cstr(wndw.LocationURL)
if InStr(locationurl_, "locationurl") = 0 then
'here in locationurl you can pass the name of the bat file

else
'to quit the bat file if needed after script found it
wndw.quit
end if
next
end with
End sub

Here, using wndw object in for each loop you can check the process based on its application name as well in which it is open for example iexplorer but you need to use correct method to get values based on your need

Reading and writing in XML using QTP - Vbscript

2013-01-30T07:42:00.001-08:00

Using VbScript one can read and write into an XML file by creating an object of "Msxml2.DOMDocument"

If one needs to read or write into this XML file, then it can be done using the below procedure where I have used "object_" and "data_file_path" as parameter.

1. object_ can be "_path" if you want to get values inside "_path" tag in above XML
2. data_file_path is XML file path like "c:\data.xml"

Sub Write_read_XML(object_, data_file_path)

'creating object for "Msxml2.DOMDocument"
Set xmlDoc = CreateObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument")

'load xml file on object
xmlDoc.load(data_file_path)

'creating an object which can store all values in tag: like in this case all the values inside object_ tag will be saved in ElemList
Set ElemList = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName(object_)

'Now loop through all the tags with name object_ in your XML file
for n = 0 to 1

'Now to fetch value you can use:
msgbox ElemList.item(n).text

'Incase you need to save values in XML then you can use the code:
ElemList.item(n).text = "value " & cstr(n)

End Sub

Using DOM in QTP

2011-11-17T01:41:00.000-08:00

DOM (Document Object Method) is a method for QTP engineers to access the source of any webpage direct through VB Scripting.

Using the DOM we can find an object on a web page and then can perform any action like click, set values etc.

For example if you need to check total links on a web browser, then you can use the following code:

Set Links = Browser("Google").Page("Google").Object.all.tags("a")
Msgbox "Total links: " & Links.Length

Or you can also use the following code:

Set Links = Browser("Google").Page("Google").Object.Links
Msgbox "Total links: " & Links.Length

Here, Object property of Page object is used where it represents the HTML document in a given browser. This browser contains links and other objects too. Here, I have used Length property to get the number of items in a collection.

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Using DOM object we can also find the object on the web page by using the methods like GetElementsByTagName, GetElementByID and more and then perform operations on it.

eg.

we can set value in textbox by using the getElementByID method on browser:

Browser("Google").Page("Google").Object.getElementByID("webeditname").Value="Testing"

How to get clipboard text using VBScript

2011-04-02T19:57:00.000-07:00

' Open notepad
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "notepad", 9

' Give Notepad time to load
WScript.Sleep 500

' Do The Paste
WshShell.SendKeys "%e"
WshShell.SendKeys "p"

How to handle null strings

2010-06-29T22:07:00.000-07:00

In TestComplete whenever DDT diver or array or anything returns null or nothing instead of a string value then it gives error message. For example if you are fetching values using the DDT driver as follow it will return you the data string from the excel file if the value exists:

'path is the path of axcel file

'sheet is the sheet ID of excel file

'A is the column name in excel file

set inputdata = DDT.ExcelDriver(path,sheet)

name = inputData.value("A")

In case if it does not exists then, it will trough an error/exception. You can handle it versy easily by using &"" with the string.

set inputdata = DDT.ExcelDriver(path,sheet)

name = inputData.value("A") &"" 'this will add nothing but will remove the exception you are getting.

How to use Regular Expression to test Email ID and other strings

2010-06-29T21:35:00.000-07:00

A regular expression can be used as follow:

'Here x is the string that needed to be tested and y is the pattern against which x will be tested

Function RegExpression(x,y)

Dim reg

Set reg = New RegExp

reg.Pattern = y ' Regular Expression filter

reg.IgnoreCase = True 'ignoring the case sensitive

RegExpression = reg.Test(x) ' Test the captured value against the filter

End Function

The above function can be used in the main procedure as:

Sub RegularExpression

x = "0.10" ' Captured value

y = "0[.]10" ' Regular expression filter and expected value

z = RegExpression(x,y) ' Call the function

if z = -1 then

log.message "The value is valid"

else

log.error "The value is not valid"

end if

End Sub

'An email ID can be tested with Regular expression using the above function by passing the following patern:

'here y can change as per the characters allowed in the email ID

Sub RegularExpression

x = "abc27@yahoo.com" ' Captured value

y = "^[A-Z0-9]+@[A-Z0-9]+.[A-Z]{3}" ' Regular expression filter and expected value

z = RegExpression(x,y) ' Call the function

if z = -1 then

log.message "The value is valid"

else

log.error "The value is not valid"

end if

End Sub

How to get excel row count

2010-06-29T21:28:00.000-07:00

Excel row count can be get by using the following function:

function get_row_count(path,sheet)

dim inputdata

dim rowc

set inputData = DDT.ExcelDriver(path, Sheet)

while not inputdata.EOF

inputdata.Next

rowc = rowc+1

Wend

get_row_count = rowc

end Function

Testcomplete: To check if the file exists and to delete a file if it exists

2009-11-25T22:37:00.001-08:00

Below is the vbscript code that can be used to check if the file exists on system or not

'In below examples: path is the path of file like "c:\text.txt"

Sub Main

set fs=createObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If not fs.FileExists(path) Then

Log.Message("Fail: file does not exist")

Else

Log.Message("Pass: File exists")

End If

End Sub

Below is the code to delete a file

Sub Delete

set fs=createObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

If not fs.FileExists(path) Then

Else

fs.deletefile(path)

End If

End sub

TestComplete: To get all the sheets name in your excel workbook

2009-11-24T21:00:00.000-08:00

To get all the sheets name from the excel file.

Sub Main

Set p = Sys.WaitProcess("EXCEL")

'this will Make sure you close any Excel work book already open

If p.Exists Then

Call p.Terminate()

End If

'This is setting the driver

Set MsExcel = Sys.OleObject("Excel.Application")

'This will open you workbook

'Specify the location of your excel file

Call MsExcel.Workbooks.Open("c:\test.xls")

MsExcel.Visible = True

'To Loop through all the sheet

for I = 1 to MsExcel.sheets.Count

'To activate the sheet

msexcel.Sheets(I).Activate

'To get the name of the active sheet

MsgBox(MsExcel.activesheet.name)

End Sub

Testcomplete : Data Driven Testing Framework

2009-11-16T01:29:00.001-08:00

Data-driven testing is a framework where test input and output values are read from data files (datapools, ODBC sources, cvs files, Excel files, DAO objects, ADO objects, and such) and are loaded into variables in captured or manually coded scripts. In this framework, variables are used for both input values and output verification values. Navigation through the program, reading of the data files, and logging of test status and information are all coded in the test script.

Data-driven testing means using a single test to verify many different test cases by driving the test with input and expected values from an external data source instead of using the same hard-coded values each time the test runs. This way, you can test how the application handles various input without having a lot of similar tests that only have different data sets.

To learn how to perform Data Driven testing using Testcomplete, you can view the following video file: Data Driven Testing Video Tutorial

TestComplete : To access column of Infragistics Grid using its index

2009-11-05T05:24:00.000-08:00

To access column of Infragistics Grid using its index:

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function get_column(grid, columnindex)

set get_column = grid.DisplayLayout.Bands.Item(0).Columns.Item(columnindex)

end Function

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You can use this function as bellow to get the header caption of a particular column

sub main

MsgBox( get_column(DIGridControl,4).Header.get_Caption.ToString)

end sub

TestComplete : To access cell of Infragistics UltraGrid using row index and column index

2009-11-05T04:57:00.001-08:00

To access Infragistics grid's cell on the basis of row and column index:

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function get_cell(grid, row, column)

set get_cell = grid.DisplayLayout.Rows.Item(row).Cells.Item(column)

end Function

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You can use this function as follow to set the value in it:

sub main

'here Ultragrid is the object of grid

call get_cell(Ultragrid, 0, 4).set_Value("checking")

end sub

TestComplete : To make a perticular tab selected (Infratistics Ultratabcontrol)

2009-11-04T01:38:00.000-08:00

In infragistics Ultratabcontrol clicktab() method do not work correctly to make a tab selected or active. It gets recorded but at the time of play, the testcomplete does not click on the tab.

In this case you can use the following procedure to select a tab.

'--------------------------

'tabcontrol is the name of ultratabcontrol object

'tabname is the name of tab (string)

sub tab_click(tabcontrol, tabname)

dim I

for I = 0 to tabControl.Tabs.Count-1

if tabControl.VisibleTabs.get_Item(I).Text.OleValue= cstr(tabname) then

tabControl.VisibleTabs.get_Item(I).Selected = true

end If

end Sub

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Testcomplete : To get cell value from excel (.xls) file

2009-11-02T02:51:00.000-08:00

'To get the cell value from .xls file workbook you can use the following function directly by passing the following parameters:

'file is the path of the excel file (string)

'sheet is the name of sheet (workbook) (string)

'row and colum are the index of cell's row and column for which you need to get the value (int)

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Function GetExcelData(file,sheet,row,colum)

Dim xlApp, xlFile, xlSheet,val

dim iRowCount,iColCount,cLoop

Set xlApp = CreateObject ("Excel.Application") 'Create access object

Set xlFile = xlApp.Workbooks.Open(file)

'Open the excel file,like"C:\myTestData.xls"

Set xlSheet = xlFile.Sheets(sheet) 'Set the sheet name in which the testdata locates

iRowCount = row

iColCount = colum

For rLoop = 1 To iRowCount 'Fetch value from the first row to the last row

'For cLoop = 1 To iColCount ' If you want to get the value cell-to-cell, you can add this line code

'numAdd = numAdd&" "&xlSheet.Cells(rLoop,cLoop)

GetExcelData = xlSheet.Cells(rLoop,colum)

'Next

xlFile.Close

xlApp.Quit

Set xlSheet = Nothing

Set xlFile = Nothing

Set xlApp = Nothing

end function

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You can also use this function to get all the values in a row for all the columns in excel file or vice versa by passing rows or column accordingly.

eg: to get all the values in all the rows for column(index=2), call the function in this way:

'row_count is the row count of the .xls file.

sub main

for row = 1 to row_count

msgbox(cstr(GetExcelData(path,sheet, row,2)))

end sub

'To get all the values in all the columns in row (index = 2) , all the function in this way:

'col_count is the row count of the .xls file.

sub main

for col = 1 to col_count

msgbox(cstr(GetExcelData(path,sheet, 2,col)))

end sub

TestComplete : to get row count of excel sheet using DDT.exceldriver

2009-11-02T02:46:00.000-08:00

'To get row count of excel sheet

'path = path of .xls file (c:/test.xls)

'sheet is the name of workbook sheet

function get_row_count(path,sheet)

dim inputdata

dim rowc

set inputData = DDT.ExcelDriver(path, Sheet)

while not inputdata.EOF

inputdata.Next

rowc = rowc+1

Wend

get_row_count = rowc

end Function

TestComplete : To generate random number between two numbers

2009-11-02T02:21:00.000-08:00

'To get random number

'Randomize is used as a seed to Rnd so that it will generate a random number each time.

' A simple formula is used to generate a random number between two number: Int((max-min+1)*Rnd+min)

Function makeRandom(min, max)

Randomize

makeRandom = Int((max-min+1)*Rnd+min)

End function

Testcomplete : To check if the value exists in Grid cell

2009-11-02T02:08:00.000-08:00

'To check if the value exists in the grid cell

' p_value is the value which you need to check

' grid is the grid in which you need to check

' colid is the ID (string) or index (int) of the column in which you need to check

' you can get the function GetCellValue () in my previous post "TestComplete: To get cell value using Row number and Column ID"

'This function will return 1 if it founds p_value in any of the cell in grid colid column or else will return 0 if does not found the p_value

function value(p_value, grid, colid)

value = "0"

for row = 0 to grid.rows.count -1

if GetCellValue(grid,row,colid) = CStr(p_value) then

value = "1"

end If

End Function

TestComplete : To get cell value using Row number and Column ID

2009-11-02T01:50:00.000-08:00

'To get the cell Value based on Grid, row number and column ID

'working in Infragistics grid as well

' Grid is grid object in which you need value for rowIndex row and ColumnId column

' You can pass either ID (string) or Index (int) of the column for ColumnId parameter

Function GetCellValue (Grid, RowIndex, ColumnId)

GetCellValue = Grid.wValue(rowindex,columnID)

end Function

TestComplete : Connect to SQL database and fetch data by executing query

2009-11-02T00:26:00.000-08:00

' Sample Code to Connect to database in Test Complete

' Database connection using Testcomplete

Sub main

Set AConnection = ADO.CreateADOConnection

AConnection.ConnectionString = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Initial Catalog=master;Data Source=DG18\SQLEXPRESS"

AConnection.LoginPrompt = False ' Suppress the login dialog box

AConnection.Open

Set RecSet = AConnection.Execute_("SELECT * FROM holding") ' Execute a simple query

RecSet.MoveFirst

While Not RecSet.EOF

Log.Message RecSet.Fields("Script").Value

RecSet.MoveNext

Wend

AConnection.Close

End sub