KnowledgeInbox (By Tarun Lalwani)

Add date and time using string addition - “2days 1hr 10 min”

Tarun Lalwani — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:19:17 +0000

Recently while automating an application it was required for me to fill a relative date in one of the place. This meant capturing a reference date from the screen and adding a relative date to the same. The relativity of the date can be expressed in various forms as shown below 1 hr 2 days 3 hours 1 [...]

Accessing Window Environment Variable

Tarun Lalwani — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:06:20 +0000

Window Environment variables can be used to store User specific or Machine specific information. This information is accessible to all windows program. Below is the list of some common windows environment variables TEMP - Temporary directory path TMP - Temporary directory path PATH - Folder locations where a file is searched when the complete path is not provided windir [...]

Capturing desktop Screenshot to QC if a Test or Component Fails

Tarun Lalwani — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:58:57 +0000

Capturing screenshots to QC in test result can quickly eat up all the space on the QC Server. This makes it sensible to capture images only in case a Test has failed. This can allow easy debugging of Test Cases to see what error had occurred when the test failed. Adding this functionality to your [...]

Change title of Command Prompt for Automation

Tarun Lalwani — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:28:20 +0000

Executing batch jobs or commands through window command prompt requires recognizing the MSDOS Window. The DOS window can be launched from a QTP script using the below command SystemUtil.Run “cmd” This launched a MS-DOS console as shown in the image below The above window can be recognized using the title of the Window “C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe” Window("title:=C:\\Windows\\System32\\cmd\.exe").Activate or Set oDosW = Description.Create oDosW("regexpwndtitle").Value = [...]

Converting HTML Text to Plain Text

Tarun Lalwani — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:33:19 +0000

HTML and XML are very common entities in the testing/automation world. At time we are required to convert the HTML/XML to a Plain text version. Example of such a conversion can be seen below <HTML><BODY><FONT color="red">Click on the Login link</FONT></BODY></HTML> The converted text for about HTML would be “Click on the Login link”. One example of such [...]

Getting Current BPT Test or Component Iteration

Tarun Lalwani — Wed, 20 May 2009 04:04:03 +0000

Working with BPT is not always same as working with normal QTP script. On my quest to find the current test and component iteration for a Business Process Test I found that below two Environment variables always return 1 Environment("TestIteration") Environment("ActionIteration") Inquiring with HP i found out that currently this is not possible with BPT. I was disappointed [...]

Overriding default functions using function pointers

Tarun Lalwani — Sat, 16 May 2009 05:00:14 +0000

In this article we will see how to override function using function pointer. Let’s first understand what overriding means. Overriding a function means changing the behavior of an existing function and defines a new behavior. It is different from function overloading. Function overloading allows a method to exhibit different behavior based on method signature while [...]

QuickTest Professional Unplugged

Tarun Lalwani — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 05:25:49 +0000

QuickTest Professional Unplugged (Paperback) By Tarun Lalwani (Author) List Price: $49.99 + S/H Current Price: $49.99 + S/H Pages: 442, Size: 8.5″ X 11″ Pre-booking now open for Indian readers Get 10% extra discount by using JULYCONTEST10 during checkout on Lulu (Valid till 31st July) HP QuickTest Professional is a functional test automation tool. It supports a Record and Playback framework [...]

Parameters evaluation in Business Components

Tarun Lalwani — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:21:27 +0000

This is my first ever article on BPT and to be frank I am not a very great fan of BPT framework. But that is what i am currently working on. It actually feels like someone handing a 2mm pistol to a Elite force commando and asking them to fight with the same. But as [...]

Is it possible to use JavaScript in QTP

Tarun Lalwani — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:27:28 +0000

This question has been asked a million times and the answer has been “Not possible” all the times. But not this time. Recently the query was asked on KnowledgeInbox forums and I had promised to get back soon on this. On my quest to do the impossible I started researching on how exactly scripting technologies work. [...]

QuickTest Professional 10 Review

Tarun Lalwani — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:10:42 +0000

Being a part of QTP 10 Beta Test team i had an opportunity to test the new version before hand. Instead of writing review on the Beta version I decided to wait for the final version to test the fixes for the issue i had reported. This article will walk you through all major enhancements [...]

QTP 10 Trial Version now available for download

Tarun Lalwani — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:03:26 +0000

A good news for all QTP lovers, the trial version of QTP 10 is now available for download. To download the same browse to HP BTO - Download Center and search for QTP in Trials. I was one of the few lucky people who got a chance to test out the Beta version of QTP [...]