[Spoorthi]

what is descriptive programming in QTP?how can be done?

[sivaprasadt@gmail.com]

Descriptive programming is nothing but a technique using which operations can be performed on the AUT object which are not present in

[newqtp]

DP is a teachnique use to write test script on the AUT object which are not present in Object Repository.

[ashutoshjain]

DP is a scripting technique in which we create Description objects and then use them in the script for performing various functions. We mostly use DP when we deal with Run Time objects.
e.g.
Set desc = Description.Create
Desc (micClass).value= "WebEdit"
Set EditBox = Browser(nameofbrowser).Page(NameofPage).ChildObjects(Desc)

We have just created a description object Desc, which have mercury interactive class value as Web Edit, which means its a web Edit box, and then finally it's value is used in a veriable named EditBox, which will deal with all the objects having description as Desc.

Now suppose we want to perform any function over the same, say we want the count of all the web edit boxes on this page, we will simply write:
NumberOfBoxes = Editbox.Count

If we want to type some values in the boxes we will write:
EditBox(0). Set = "Text1"
similarly:
EditBox(1). Set = "Text2"
EditBox(2). Set = "Text3"
EditBox(3). Set = "Text4"

WHere 0,1,2,3... are the index numbers of the edit boxes.

Hope this helps

[sonali.jog]

Hi Ashitoshjain

Very nice explanation of DP by a simple example.
sonali