Qtp actions-the-basics
- 1. Actions in QTP – The Basics By Chandrika
- 2. What you would read in this PPT: What are QTP Actions. What are the different types of QTP actions. How actions access data from QTP data tables. How to call actions in your QTP scripts.
- 3. What is a QTP Action? QTP Action is a placeholder or a component in which you can write your scripts or code. You can write your code in QTP actions in the same way you do in a function library or scripted business component. Just like functions, actions also help to divide your test script into logical units or business flows. In fact, a QTP test script is itself a collection of one or more actions. Whenever you create a new test case, an action will also be created automatically for that test case.
- 4. What is a QTP Action – contd.. Each test case in QTP consists of one or more actions and the flow of the test case is determined by the order of action calls. Example: Consider a scenario where you login to gmail >> send an email >> logout from gmail This scenario can be scripted by adding 3 actions in a QTP test script as –
- 5. What is a QTP Action – contd.. Modularization provided by actions is similar to what is there with functions. Only difference is the implementation. .. is similar to ..
- 6. Different Types of QTP Actions QTP actions can be classified into the following different types - Different Types of QTP Actions NOTE: QTP documentation doesn’t specify an action type as ‘Internal’. We have just extended the ‘External Action’ type to come up with ‘Internal Action’.
- 7. Different Types of QTP Actions – contd.. QTP actions can be classified into the following different types - Reusable Actions : These are the actions that can be called multiple times by – - the same test in which it is stored, and - by other external tests also. Non-Reusable Actions : These are the actions that can be called only once and that too in the test where they are stored. These can’t be called from external tests. Internal Actions : With reference to a QTP test case, an internal action is one that is stored within that test case. This action can be reusable as well as non-reusable. External Actions : With reference to a QTP test case, an external action is one that is stored in some other test case. External actions should be reusable otherwise it can’t be used outside the test case.