Thread: how QTP indentifies the object plz provide me all the ways of identifying the object

how QTP identifies the object plz provide me all the ways

QTP uses the Object Repository file to recognize objects on the application. When QTP runs a action, it uses the Object Repository to locate objects. It reads an object’s description in the Object Repository and then looks for an object with the same properties in the application being tested

During recording qtp looks at the object and stores it as test object.For each test object QT learns a set of default properties called mandatory properties,and look at the rest of the objects to check whether this properties are enough to uniquely identify the object.
During test run,QT searches for the run time obkects that matches with the test object it learned while recording

QTP recognizes all objects in the Application under test using the set of mandatory properties that it stores for all Test Objects while recording. If QTP is not able to recognize the objects using the set of mandatory properties it uses another set of properties called the assistive properties. Incase the assistive properties are also not enough to uniquely identify an object QTP resorts to using the ordinal identifiers for the object that are properties like the index, location and time of creation of the object. If all this fails QTP resorts to the smart identification mechanism.

First of all QTP will consider all the properties present in the Object Repositary except Ordinal identifier and tried to identify the object, if it fails then it will forget above the all these properties and uses the "smart identification" mechanism in the following way:

First of all it will use all the "Base filter" properties and try to match with all the objects present in the AUT(Application under Test) and then prepare the test of objects which are matched with those properties, if the list contains only one object then it is the object, otherwise if the list contains more than one object it wil take the support of the first "optional filter" properties and try to match with all the objects in the list and the prepare a new list in the objet which are matched with theat "OF" properties , if the list contain more than one object it will take the support of second "OF" property and continues the above process till the list contain one object or up to the end of the "OF" properties list.

During recording or pre-learning QT capturing the object property's based on the
mandatory and also assertive optional properties for unique identification but
those property's are not enough for identification then it will take the help of
ordinal identifier (like index or location). While execution QT using these
property's it will uniquely identify the specific object on the AUT.

So it is mandatory to add Object Repositories or we can do without it. I mean, is it ok if we are recording without adding Object Repositories and running the test, what could be the effect of this? Please let me know.

Khanz,

Do you mean you need to know whether Running the test is possible without recording the test else. Let me know precisely.

Thanks
Deepasree

Hi Deepasree,

My question is that we can record & playback the test without adding Object Repositories as well, then where lies the significance of Object Repositories ? Please correct me if I am missing something.

Regards,
Zareen

hi Khanz,

You can record the test once u record it all the objects will be added in OR Resources->Object repository. So that if u save the test u can run multiple times same result will be displayed.

If you don't need objects in OR then you should write descriptive programming, function libraries. If once function library is created you can simply call the function.

Thanks
Deepasree