In my recent testing efforts, I have comes across a desktop windows form (written in VB6) involving updating a data grid and then calculating another field’s value based on those updates. In order to achieve this functionality, the development staffs implemented two events (AfterColUpdate and LostFocus) that, when triggered, would fire off the calculation method.

None of this is obvious to the end user when testing, all they see is enter a number into the grid column and the total field automatically updates with the sum of all values in the column. Easy peasy.

I created my reusuable action in QuickTest Pro and record the entering of data, which yielded the following code:

VbWindow(”frmMain”).VbWindow(”frmChildWindow1″).VbWindow(”frmChildWindow2″).AcxTable(”PaymentGrid”).SelectCell 1,4

VbWindow(”frmMain”).VbWindow(”frmChildWindow1″).VbWindow(”frmChildWindow2″).AcxTable(”PaymentGrid”).SetCellData 1,4, “30.00″

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When creating reusable actions in QuickTest Pro, there are times you may come across the need to dynamically access an object within your application that may or may not exist within your Object Repository. One approach to handling this opportunity is through the use of Description Objects.

I could spend a lot of time attempting to explain how to go about implementing description objects, but I have found that QTP’s help files do a good job explaining exactly what you need to do. To find what you are looking for, search for “Using Description Objects for Programmatic Descriptions” within the help file.

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I have recently come across the need to create user groups on my local machine for a current project. I have researched and come up with a straightforward VBScript file that I can use as my basis for creating many user groups on each fresh testing installation.

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