UNIVERSAL FUNTIONAL TESTING TOOL (UFT ) 11.

COLLECTION OF ARTICLES : ABDUL SUBHAN

Unified Functional Testing (UFT) = Quick Test Pro (QTP) + Service Test (ST) This is going to be a major change on how we see QTP. Going forward, QTP and Service Test will be a part of UFT 11.5 software. Acc. to HP, this has been done to serve end-to-end testing needs. QTP (GUI testing tool) and Service Test (API testing tool) will be available from a single interface, so you need not download two separate tools from now on. HP UFT Insight HP is quite gung-ho about this new feature and it would be interesting to see when UFT 11.5 actually comes out in the market. HP claims that With Image-based object identification you can now learn an objects (or images) different states and convert that into a recognizable object within the object library. and HP UFT Insight breaks down [these] barriers with innovative image-based object recognition, which allows the testing software to recognize and record any application, irrespective of the tool used to build it. Multiple script Debugging This was a much needed and requested feature. You will now be able to debug two or more scripts at the same time from within UFTs IDE. PDF Checkpoints You can now directly compare PDF files and run checkpoints on them. Support Open Source CI Systems HP UFT 11.5 will support open source Continuous Integration like Jenkins and Hudson. [For people with non-development background - CI is a practice normally used in a multi-developer environment where all developer codebases are merged with the main codebase several times a day] Mobile Testing Support Realizing the explosive growth of mobile (smart-phones + tablets) platform, HP is putting a lot of focus on this new age tech. UFT 11.5 will provide a better support for mobile testing. With the help of HP UFT Mobile, HP claims that you will be able to create mobile platform agnostic scripts; hence a script created for iOS would be expected to work for Android. The mobile application testing solution will support emulators as well as real devices. The real devices can be sourced from the public cloud of shared real devices and/or private cloud of dedicated real devices.

New Unified Functional Testing Features A few days ago, right before Christmas, HP finally made UFT 11.5 available for download. Here's a quick look at the top five features I think you're going to love: 5) New Add-Ins for Flex and Qt applications UFT now supports: Flex QT

The add-ins give you the ability to test both Flex and QT GUI applications using UFT. For UFT to work with a Flex application you must compile it with a UFT Flex pre-compiled agent. Testing Qt applications does not require any other steps, other than loading the QT Add-in and testing your QT app just like you would any other UFT supported application. 4) Run step feature for API tests For Service Test API test users, this feature is a simple change but an absolutely killer enhancement that's going to save me a lot of time-the ability to run any step on the canvas areas using the new "Run step" command.

If you have an API test made up of 50 operations, you'll no longer need to run the whole test from the top. Simply right click on any operation on the Canvas. For instance, selecting "Run step" will run only that operation. Sweet! 3) Insight Image-Based Object Identification Need to test an application that QTP was never able to recognize? Or do you need to test an application that runs remotely on a nonwindows OS? In theory, using the new Insight feature in UFT will now allow you to successfully run tests against these types of challenging situations.

Basically, Insight works by UFT recognizing objects in an application based on what they look like. So, if you're testing an application that UFT doesn't support, it shouldn't matter that none of the objects' native properties are recognized, since UFT will instead use an image to help identify it.

All images are stored in the object repository.

(I'm not sure how reliable this approach is yet, since I haven't had time to really try it out, but the concept sounds promising.) 2) Enhanced Debugging Features Anyone that has been coding on QTP knows how frustrating and the limited the current QTP debugging capabilities are. On top of that, debugging is one of the most important parts of creating a script which is why you'll be happy to know that the debugger in UFT has been greatly enhanced. The following panes have been added and enhanced: Call Stack allows you to view info about the methods and functions that are currently in the call stack. Loaded Modules for API tests, this pane allows you to view info on .dlls that are loaded and executed in API test runs. Threads For API tests--allows you to view info about threads currently running as part of the run session. Local Variables Pane allows you to view all the current values and types of variables in their current context. Console Pane when debugging a script, this pane allows you to run lines of VBScript (for GUI tests) and C# code (for API tests) in your suspended run session. Watch when debugging, this pane allows you to view the current values ad types of selected variables, properties, and VBScript of C# expressions in a test's suspended run session. Debug pane enables you to view the current values and types of variables, properties, and VBScript or C# in a test's suspended run session.

And finally, the top Unified Functional Testing 11.5 feature enhancement you're going to love is: 1) Unified IDE In previous releases, HP had separate products for functional testing. QuickTest Professional (QTP) was used for testing GUI applications, and Service Test was for testing non-GUI technologies. Unified functional Testing (UFT) combines both products and features a frontend that merges the separate tools into one common user interface.

When creating a new test script in UFT, the user is now given a choice between creating either a GUI Test (formerly known as QTP) or API Test (formerly known as Service Test). This book focuses on the API testing piece of UFT.

UFT also allows the user (with a proper license for each piece) to integrate steps from GUI, API and LoadRunner into one test script. The ability to call and pass data from one test type to another enables the user to create true end-to-end testing solutions. The new IDE also allows you to open multiple tests and libraries at the same time. This is destined to be a huge time saver, especially for QTP engineers that have created action-based frameworks.

*Functional Testing = QTP *Unified Functional Testing = QTP + ST *UnifiedFunctionalTesting 1.0 = License feature *UFT 11.50 = one single tool with QTP+ST *QTP Essentials = Same QTP 11, but limited addins and QC integration (QTPEssentials license feature) UI is totally different and improved powered bu SHARP-DEVELOPER IDE..... 2-- There is one more new CheckPoint added known as FileContent checkpoint with the help of which , now we matches the two PDF Files........ 3-- One more Recording mode is new added which is called Insight Recording.......Killer Concept...... 4-- Now we Debug the Function Library at Run Time also...... 5-- Best Feature added in UFT ever is that now it is fully supported .NET Technology.....we can create our automated script in .Net language instead of VBScript