Sunday, September 7, 2014

Upgrading QC 11 to ALM 12.01

According to some QC admins upgrading and migrating to ALM may be very complicated. I am going to describe how we made this process in less than 3 hours for a project that is bigger than 40GB without any problem. No DBA needed for this operation :) Following the described procedures on this page is at your own risk! Do not blame me if something goes wrong :)

Monday, June 16, 2014

Changing proxy configuration automatically

For our automation scripts we are testing various type of applications. Some of these applications needs proxy configuration to access the application page while for some of them proxy mustn't be configured.
To solve this we use a function named "initAutomation" that takes application name as a parameter. This function is being called at the beginning of the test script and checks the application name and then decides to configure proxy settings before the execution.

Following piece of code accomplishes this functionality.

Disabling Smart Identification


Sometimes the "Smart Identification" functionality may become a pain for the automation scripts especially if you have dozens of test scripts. I prefer not to use this functionality because of slow identification and sometimes QTP mis-identifies the objects. For me it is better to get an "Object not found" error instead of waiting for the smart identification to find correctly desired object.