Smart Identification is a mechanism to identify the objects in Object Repository when the normal mechanism fails. It is applicable only for Web Applications. This mechanism is used by UFT to identify objects at Run time.

How can you use selenium to identify an object?

Selenium uses a concept of ‘Locators’ for identifying objects. The findElement method in Selenium can be used to identify the elements. It takes a locator or a query object ‘By’ object and returns an object of type WebElement. ‘By’ object can be used with the various locator strategies available.

How do I identify an object on a website?

Use the Object Spy to identify web objects available on the device screen. By default the object is identified by XPath. Additional ways to identity an object are by the following object properties: CSS Selector, HTML id, name, class, tag, text and webView.

What is framework in UFT?

UFT Automation Framework It supports different recording mode i.e. Normal, Analog and Low level which facilitates to automate different types of applications. UFT supports almost all popular automation frameworks like Linear, Keyword, Data Driven, Hybrid etc. for automation purpose.

What is the use of the element identified in the object?

The object element represents external content, that can be either an image, a document (nested browsing context) or a resource loaded by a plugin.

What is TestNG and its advantage?

The main advantage of testNG can be listed as follows: TestNG provides parallel execution of test methods. It allows to define dependency of one test method over other method. It allows grouping of test methods into test groups. It has support for parameterizing test cases using @Parameters annotation.

What are the types of properties used in object identification?

Object Description, Mandatory & Assistive Properties The Object Description is used to uniquely identify the corresponding Object. For example, for a WebButton property “name” and its value “Login” together can be termed as Object Description for that Web Button.

Which is the primary identification criteria used by UFT for objects stored in repository?

Smart Identification Smart Identification is an object identification mechanism wherein UFT uses a combination of fundamental properties of a test object class AND some optional properties to identify an object.

What is object in Web application?

An application on the Web may consists of several ASP files that work together to perform some purpose. The Application object is used to tie these files together. The Application object is used to store and access variables from any page, just like the Session object.

What is QTP smart identification?

QTP-Smart Identification. Sometimes, QTP is unable to find any object that matches the recognized object description or it may find more than one object that fits the description, then QTP ignores the recognized description and uses the Smart Identification mechanism to recognize the object.

Why does QTP ignore the recognized object description?

Sometimes, QTP is unable to find any object that matches the recognized object description or it may find more than one object that fits the description, then QTP ignores the recognized description and uses the Smart Identification mechanism to recognize the object.

What is an example of QTP?

A simple generic example as per the QTP manual would be, A photograph of a 8 year old girl and boy and QTP records identification properties of that girl when she was 8, now when both are 10 years old then QTP would not be able to recognize the girl. But there is something that is still the same, that is there is only one girl in the photograph.

How to reduce the object candidate list in QTP?

QTP the Uses Base Filter Property to reduce the Object Candidate list. The idea is to narrow down only to one object matching the some or all of the saved description properties.