How to Configure Eclipse to work with Selenium

Before starting working with Selenium using Eclipse IDE, we did some configuration that needs to be done for starting and understanding Selenium. This post will explain step wise, how to start working with selenium using Eclipse:

Pre- Conditions: We will require following before beginning the configuration:

1. Java needs to be installed in the machine.

2. Eclipse IDE needs to be installed .

3. Standalone libraries of selenium, at the time of writing this post, I am using selenium-server-standalone-2.33.0.jar

4. Verify in Path variable in User defined variable for machine, is set to the path where standalone libraries is placed as shown below

Configuration Steps: 

Step 1: In eclipse, create a new java project as shown below from File>New Java Project

Create a new Java Project

Step 2: Once a java project is created, right click on project and select option "Build Path>Configure build path

Configure build path of project

Step 3: Click on Add External JAR's and add the selenium standalone jar as shown below.

 Step 4: Now in src for the project, Add a new package, and add a new class as shown below.

Select methods stubs to create as public static void main(String[] args)

                                         

Step 5: Write the code in the class created above and execute. This will open Google in internet explorer . Write selenium in search and click on search.

Code to be placed in void main:

WebDriver ieDriver = new InternetExplorerDriver(); ieDriver.get("http://www.google.com"); WebElement element = ieDriver.findElement(By.name("q")); element.sendKeys("selenium"); element.submit();

Manipulating Array with examples using vbscript in QTP

In this post we discusses examples working with arrays and manipulating them in vbscript:

1.How to count number of elements in an array

intcount = ubound(arrayname)

2. How to join all the values in an array to a string and display the value in messagebox

dl=Array("Sunday","Monday","Tuesday","Wednesday","Thursday","Friday","Saturday")
daysinWeek = join(dl, " ")
msgbox "days in weeks " & daysinWeek

3. How to split values in a string in an array based on delimiter

dl="Sunday>Monday>Tuesday>Wednesday>Thursday>Friday>Saturday"
daysinWeek = split(dl, ">")

This method can be used on looping as shown in example below:

On error resume next

Set objDesc= Description.create

'Set of Property values are delimited by "," 

If (instr(1,strDescObj,",") >0) Then

''Split multiple links based on delimiter.

arrDesc = split(strDescObj,",")

intPropSet = Ubound(arrDesc)

''Loop through each of the link and click the required link

for i = 0 to intPropSet

strDesc = split(arrDesc(i),"|")

objDesc(strDesc(0)).value = strDesc(1)

Next

End If

Understanding Date time function: Using VBScript in QTP

Below are some of the useful function for working with date/time in vb script. We will use the functions and illustrate where the functions can be used.

1. Date - This returns the current date of the system.

2. Now - This returns the current Date and time of the system.So now contains time part as well as date part while date function returns only date.

3. Time - This returns the current time of the system. So in terms of relation between date , time, and now function 

Now = date + time

4. Year, Month, Day, hour, minute, second - These functions return year, month,day,hour,minute,second part for the expression.

example : day(now) or  minute(now)

Above functions discussed above are useful for timestamp , and also for generating a unique number based on the function used.

5. Timer - Timer returns the number of seconds from 12:00a.m. This function is very useful for evaluating time spent in performing an activity by taking timer at the start and end of the activity and subtracting the time between two.

6. DatePart - returns specific part of the date .Possible values or part of date , that can be extracted as shown below:

• yyyy - Year
• q - Quarter
• m - Month
• y - Day of year
• d - Day
• w - Weekday
• ww - Week of year
• h - Hour
• n - Minute
• s - Second

Syntax of the function is : DatePart("m",d))where d is the date as "2013-06-09" and m will return the month of the date.

7. DateDiff - Returns the difference between two dates: 

Syntax : DateDiff(interval,date1,date2). Interval can be yyyy,q,m, y,d,.... as discussed earlier.

8. DateAdd - Add specified date to the date.

Syntax : DateAdd(interval,number,date)