Quick Test Professional (QTP) - Utility Objects

QTP provides several utility objects to enhance the power of scripting. Below is a list of all QTP utility objects.

Crypt, DataTable, Description, DTParameter, DTSheet, Environment, Extern, OptionalStep, Parameter, PathFinder, Properties(Collection), QCUtil, Random Number, Recovery, Reporter, Services, Setting, TextUtil, TSLTest, XMLUtil

Only some of the QTP objects are covered here and rest will be covered in other post.

• The Crypt Object
• The OptionalStep Object
• The PathFinder Object
• The RandomNumber Object
• The Setting Object
• The Add Method
• The Exists Method
• The Remove Method
• The WebUtil Object
• The SystemUtil Object
• The RegisterUserFunc Object

Quick Test Professional (QTP) - SystemUtil Object

This is used to run and close the processes. Below are few example of starting the processes.

'Run internet explorer

SystemUtil.Run "iexplore.exe"

'Run the internet explorer and pass the staring URL

SystemUitl.Run "iexplore.exe", "http://www.yahoo.com"

Below are few examples of closing a process.

'Give # of closed process

numClosed = SystemUtil.CloseProcessByName("explore.exe")

'Title with a regular expression

SystemUtil.CloseProcessByWndTitle "Microsoft Internet Explorer. *", True

'Title without regular expression

SystemUtil.CloseProcessByWndTitle "Notepad"

'Closing a process by window handle

hwnd = Browser("creationtime:=0").GetROProperty("hwnd")

SystemUtil.CloseProcessByHwnd hwnd

'Close process by the process id

SystemUtil.CloseProcessById processID

'Close all processes opened by QTP

SystemUtil.CloseDescendentProcesses