Unified Functional testing: Understanding New Features

Unified functional testing 11.5 is latest from HP on functional automation testing. Previously I worked with QTP 11.0, and there are many changes in QTP 11 and UFT 11.5. Let me share the changes that I encountered and new features in UFT 11.5. Unified functional testing helps to work with API  as well as GUI together and the IDE has changed a lot from QTP 11.

1. UI Interface: 

Interface for UFT 11.5 has changed a lot from QTP 11 and it seems as if I was working on a completely new tool.

a.   Creating a new test:

Now we can create an API Test as well as GUI Test. API Test is for testing API Interface whereas GUI Test is the normal test or QTP Test that we have been creating in the past.

creating a new test in QTP

b.   Keyword View: 

We cannot  view Keyword view and expert view in UFT 11.5 together. To view Keyword view, We have to select View>Keyword View. To go back from keyword view to expert view, select View>Editor.

How a test looks in UFT

c.   UFT 11.5 provides easy navigation to functions/classes in the editor as shown in the below screenshot.

d.   Menu Option have changed a lot In UFT 11.5, with separate menu item for ALM, and redesign and menu options shuffled from one tab to another.

e.   Provides creating solution in which we can manage test documents including tests, function libraries, business components and test flows.

2.Using Solution explorer

we can work with multiple tests in the solutions and can edit, manage multiple tests at the same time.

3.   One of the new features of UFT 11.5 is Insight for object Identification

, an image-based identification ability to recognize objects in your application based on what they look like, instead of using properties that are part of their design. This can be useful if you are working with an application whose technology is not supported by UFT, or with an application running on a remote computer. This is a new feature and will be discussed in details in next articles.

4.   Using File content checkpoint

we can verify the content of file and can be useful for comparing Pdf files or contents of PDF file. PDF, HTML, Word, TXT, and RTF file types are supported.

5.  UFT supports testing for QT and Adobe flex Applications.

6.  Supports Microsoft Office and plug-in controls.

7.  In API Testing, Using the soapUI to API Test conversion tool, you can convert soapUI tests to UFT API tests.

8.  With UFT, new versions in different environment are supported that were not supported in QTP 11

9.  Start Page of Unified function testing provide links to new features, communities, useful links, and support. Using this we can connect to other users for forum support and information.

10. We can set preference to automatically export run results in HTML or PDF format after every run session through Tools > Options > General tab > Run Sessions

11. Bitmap checkpoint now enables to specify multiple areas to compare or ignore within the bitmap checking. It also supports checking whether a specific image appears anywhere within the runtime bitmap.