Nuts, bolts and bytes

  Excel automation and VBScript can be used to create a test suite that can control the run sequence of QTP scripts and present a Summary report of the automation run cycle. Its simple enough to double-click an icon and the VBScript program will create an excel sheet, populated with all the scripts from a Test folder. Here’s the folder structure: Click here to get the files.   The CreateSuite.vbs program creates an excel sheet .. .. and populates it with all the QTP scripts from the Tests folder (folder hierarchy within the Tests folder does not matter, a valid script folder will be fetched). Here’s how the excel sheet looks after running the CreateSuite program: This Test Suite has been created in the TestSuite folder, as the Suite.xls file: Once the list of tests is available, one can choose to configure a subset of the listed tests to be run, like in the case below, we turn off the fourth test: Now that the list of tests to be run is r...

  Suppose we want to report on all subfolders in a specific root folder that contain script files. Consider the example folder structure here – ODBC_MYSQL, ODBC_SQLEXPRESS and Test1 are the folders that have QTP scripts: Here’s a VBScript program that takes the root (start) folder as input, and iterates all subfolders recursively to report on the ones that are actual QTP script folders: Note: This program can be run directly as a VBScript program, or from within a QTP script by toggling the comment between lines 17 and 18. (p.s.: if Print statement does not work on specific version of QTP, use the Msgbox statement. For real world test automation projects, do not use either – to avoid human intervention!) On running the program, Folders across various levels (Level 2, 3) get reported!

  The database arrangement: How to connect to database and fetch the Address field 1 from QTP: