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6. Technologies Supported Default Support 1. Standard Windows applications 2. Web objects / Applications 3. ActiveX controls 4. Visual Basic applications Additional QuickTest add-ins Support 1. Java 2. Oracle 3. SAP 4. .NET 5. Web Forms 6. Siebel 7. PeopleSoft 8. Web services 9 Main frame (Terminal Emulator)

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13. Operations on Actions • Creating Actions • Splitting Actions • Renaming Actions • Deleting Actions • Calling an Action • Copying an Action • Making an Action Reusable/Non Reusable

14. CheckPoints A checkpoint is a verification point that compares a current value for a specified property with the expected value for that property We can view the results of the checkpoint in the Test Results window

19. Supported Check Points S —Supported NS —Not Supported NA —Not Applicable S S S S Database NA NA NA S Page S S S S XML (From Resource) NA NA NA S XML (Web Page/Frame) NS NS NS S Accessibility S S S S Bitmap NS NS NS S Text S S (VbListView) S (WinListView) S Table NS NS NS S Image S S S S Standard ActiveX VB Standard Windows Web Checkpoint Type

20. Data Tables Integrated Spread sheet (Excel), used for Data driven testing. Data driven Testing : Testing the same task with multiple sets of test data.

21. Data Tables Two types of sheets in Data Tables. Global Sheet- for entire test. i-e used for all actions in the test. Action Sheets- for specific action only. Data can be imported to the Data Tables from external files (Flat files, excel sheets, etc) and Data bases (MS access, Sql Server, oracle, etc.)

22. Data Tables Design time data table . Run time data table . - Available in result screen

23. Data Tables Two types of sheets. Global Sheet- for entire test. i-e used for all actions in the test. Action Sheets- for specific action only.

38. Typical automation Framework. ObjectRepository -> To keep your shared object repositories. Datatables ->To keep QTP data tables and external Excel sheets. Config-> To keep environment variable xml file RecoveryScenario ->To keep your recovery scenario files. Tests-> You can keep your QTP Tests here. You may include Test containing Reusable Actions here. And a Test which is getting used as driver script can also be stored here. library ->you can keep your vbs file which contains vbscript functions. Results -> You can store Result files (Either QTP result file or customized result file) here