Quick Test Professional - The starters Guide

Descriptive Programming/Programmatic Description provides a path to perform action on objects that are not present in object repository.

When and Where to use Descriptive Programming?

• When the Object Repository increased in its size, results in low Performance.
• When the framework is built so that it is decided not to use Object Repository.
• When objects are dynamic in nature in the application.
• When testers need to perform a task at run-time on the application. Without having the knowledge of object's properties are unique.

Descriptive Programming have two ways to script are.

1. Description Objects
2. Description Strings

Description Objects:

A Description Object is a collection of test object property and value pairs in.

Example: Set oDesc = Description.Create

Description Strings:

The description of the objects are developed using the properties and values as strings as shown below.

Browser("Welcome: Mercury Tours").Page("Welcome: Mercury Tours").WebEdit("userName").Set "mercury"

Child Objects:

To create object collections using a parent object by using the ChildObjects method.

Example: Set colObject = ParentObject.ChildObjects(oDesc)

Ordinal Identifiers:

The ordinal identifier is mainly used to assigns the object a numerical value that indicates the order relative to other objects.

Ordinal identifiers Types are: 

Index:

Indicates the order in which the object appears in the application code relative to other objects with an otherwise identical description.

Location:

Indicates the order in which the object appears within the parent window, frame, or dialog box relative to other objects with an otherwise identical description