While testing an application, you may need to obtain data stored in its controls and objects, perform various actions over these controls and objects, check the state of certain objects and controls and so on. Topics of this section describe the approaches that you can use to perform basic testing operations from your keyword tests.
Operations That Are Specific for Keyword Tests
Describes which operation you can use to perform common tasks like starting a tested application, simulating mouse clicks, posting a message or window to the test log and so on.
Describes how you can assign values to parameter of keyword test operations.
Describes how to call objects methods and actions from keyword tests.
Explains how you can works with objects that belong to a window or control, but not displayed in the Object Browser as a child object (for instance, menus, scroll bars and so on).
Describes how to obtain and check the result of an operation in keyword tests.
Explains how to check various conditions in keyword tests.
Describes how to specify object waiting time for keyword test operations.
Describes how you can obtain the value of a certain object property from a keyword test.
Explains how to work with item collections in keyword tests.
Contains information on how to perform operations repetitively in keyword tests.
Explains how to create data-driven loops in keyword tests.
Describes how to get images and post them to the test log from keyword tests.
Explains how you can temporarily exclude operations from the test execution order and include them again later.
Operations Common for Scripts and Keyword Tests
While the above-mentioned topics describe how to perform basic operations from keyword tests, the following topics describes common approaches that you can use to perform certain operations from keyword tests and scripts:
Contains information on how to simulate user actions in your tests.
Describes how to check the current state of an application's objects.
Contains information on how to simulate user actions in your tests.
Describes how to check whether an application's objects exist in the system.
Explains how to search for application objects.
Contains information on how to simulate user actions in your tests.
See Also
Keyword Testing - Overview
Keyword Tests
Common Tasks for Keyword Test Operations