Child Objects Method in QTP

 Child Objects

              This method will display the count of the needed objects that we needed specifically from the application.

For Example:

           1. We might be need the no. of Links (Links)
           2. We might be need the no. of Buttons (WinButton, WebButton)
           3. We might be need the no. of Editbox (WinEdit, WebEdit)  

To display the count of the objects present in the same name we can declare the below syntax.

Example: 1

'Display the count of the links present in the google page:

Set lnk=Description.Create
lnk("micclass").value="Link"
Set brw=Description.Create
brw("name").value="Google"
Set olinks=Browser("name:=Google").Page("title:=Google").ChildObjects(lnk)
msgbox olinks.count

Example: 2

'Display the count of the buttons present in the qtp default flight application landing page:

Set btns=Description.Create
btns("micclass").value="WinButton"
Set dlg=Description.Create
dlg("name").value="Login"
Set ocollection=Dialog("text:=Login").ChildObjects(btns)
msgbox ocollection.count

Example: 3

'Display the count of the Edit Boxes present in the qtp default flight application landing page:

Set btns=Description.Create
btns("micclass").value="WinEdit"
Set dlg=Description.Create
dlg("name").value="Login"
Set ocollection=Dialog("text:=Login").ChildObjects(btns)
msgbox ocollection.count

Types of Objects

1. Run Time Object:

        Physical description of an object is called an run time object.
Ex:  (Editor, Button, Link, Checkbox, RadioButton, ComboBox, Window, DialogBox)

2. Test Object:

         This is the reference of Run Time Object used to write the test script based on the application environment,
Ex: (WinEdit, WebButton, VBCheckbox, Swfwindow)

3. Automation Object (or) User defined Object:

           The user can create that can be used across the project, The objects can stored in Repository as like in below format,

        Local Repository --> (.mtr)
        Shared --> (.tsr)

Generation of Scripts for Windows Application

Record and Playback:

Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Agent Name:").Set "admin"
Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Password:").Set "mercury"
Dialog("Login").WinButton("OK").Click
Window("Flight Reservation").Close

Above scripts are recorded for default "flight reservation" free windows application available in QTP,

Variation of scripts for Windows and Web:

There are some difference in scripts that we can see here for recording windows and web application,
for web application we are using the "object" of the text box as WebEdit (" ") and for button "WebButton"
for windows application the "object" of the text box here we used as WinEdit(" ") and for button "WinButton".

By keeping the above recorded scripts to bring up the same for the basic framework level we need to implement some validation codes to run the recorded scripts once giving play back in QTP,

Systemutil.Run(""C:\Program Files (x86)\HP\QuickTest Professional\samples\flight\app\flight4b.exe")
Dialog("Login").Active
Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Agent Name:").Set "admin"
Dialog("Login").WinEdit("Password:").Set "mercury"
Dialog("Login").WinButton("OK").Click
Window("Flight Reservation").Close

The above code will give the best output while QTP play back the scripts.

Dialog("Login").Active -  Indicates the login window should active to display whenever the user playback the scripts