From Seapine Labs

Recording scripts provides a baseline for application testing. After recording, you can create more flexible and complex scripts by adding statements, creating checkpoints, and using data sources for input data.

You can modify scripts in Grid View and Text View. Text View provides greater flexibility and allows you to add advanced logic to scripts that is not available in Grid View.

Contents 1 About checkpoints 2 About data sources 3 About statements

[edit] About checkpoints

Checkpoints can help you verify both the tested application’s user interface and its internal structure. Checkpoints verify that the value of a property in an application window or control matches an expected value during playback. If the actual value in the tested application and the expected value do not match, the script fails.

[edit] About data sources

Data-driven scripts allow you to use external data to test a different set of data each time a script runs. When a script runs, QA Wizard Pro reads input information from a local or external data source.

[edit] About statements

Each script step you record is a statement, but you can also add other statements to control how a script runs. Statements are instructions in scripts that tell QA Wizard Pro how to interact with the tested application. Some statements are automatically added to scripts during recording, while others must be added manually.

In addition to performing actions in the tested application, statements can also control the flow of scripts and perform other actions outside of the application.

QA Wizard Pro includes the following statement types:

• Common statements: Perform a variety of actions including adding comments to a script, declaring a variable, adding advanced statements, and adding checkpoints.
• Conditional statements: Evaluate an expression and run a block of script steps depending on the result.
• Loop statements: Repeat a block of script steps a specific number of times or while a condition is true or false.
• Low-level action statements: Perform keyboard and mouse actions that QA Wizard Pro records when it cannot recognize an object.
• Object action statements: Perform actions on application controls.
• Procedure statements: Perform actions in a script that do not return values.
• Script control statements: Control how QA Wizard Pro interacts with tested applications, runs scripts, and handles errors.
• Window action statements: Perform actions on application windows.