[Bobby]

Hi friends....


How do u answer a question like...


What do u do if an object is not recognised ?


What is meant by Protocol testing?

[sk_kireeti]

Hi Hasan,

If an object is not recognized by tool, first check whether the corresponding add-in is installed and enabled or not.

Then check, if the properties it is using to recognise the object are in place or not. ( like if description of button is used to identify a button uniquely, it may fail in some cases).

Check if application need any separate setup to identify the objects by tool (it is the case for some applications).

Check the language/tool version used to develop the application and check if it is supported by the tool or not. (in case of some java applications, we have to check the jdk version and the JInitiator verisions). if not, check if there are any patches available.

These are the things generally I will do and I faced in my practical experience.

Hope this will help.

thanks,
Krishna

[sk_kireeti]

Check my another posting on Protocol testing. It has a link to a whitepaper from wipro.

Thanks,
Krishna

[Bobby]

Hi krishna..


Thanks for the answer....


Here's another Q?



What are wildcard characters?

[sk_kireeti]

Hi Hasan,


We don't have any wildcard characters specific to winrunner. But we can use regular expressions for this.

If any object (especially window names) can't be recognized because of the dynamic nature in their names, we wild card them so that we can recognize them.

Eg: A window title can be "Welcome Hasan" when you login. And when I login it can be "Welcome Krishna". to handle it we can make its description as "!Welcome.*". This is called wildcarding in winrunner.

NOTE: .*! any of them are not wild card characters. It is the syntax of regular expressions in Winrunner.

Thanks,
Krishna