Descriptive OR Reader & DOR Parser

[Vignesh_1985]

Recently i came through about something called as descriptive or reader and dor parser can some one explain what are they? do they mean the same thing? i know it's concerned with xml repository, can you an overview on their use? thanks in advance.

[quality_quantity]

descriptive programming in QTP means when there is no
object in object repository for that object wehave to write
decriptive programming to add the properties of the object
which is not there in the oblect repository.
you can describe an objectdirectly in a test statementby
specifying property:= value pairs describing the object
insted of specifying an object's logical name.
syntax
testobject
("propertyname1 :=propertyvalue1","...","propertynamex :=pro
pertyvaluex").
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main disadvantage is the amount of code that goes into the test scripts, code-repetition and maintainability. Descriptive programming using an XML Repository is a concept that allows quicktest scripts to use the reusability of an object repository without having to lose the flexibility of DP.

The DOR Parser ratifies this concept by providing a hook to connect Quicktest pro with an XML Repository.