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Intended for: Quality assurance engineers; technical managers; software engineers; customer support engineers; anyone who needs to automate testing and verification processes

Pre-requisites: Using WinRunner course; programming background in C, C++ or Java.

Skills gained

• Apply TSL concepts with correct syntax
• Create toolbar buttons to simplify commonly used coding
• Debug scripts
• Use the Syntax checker
• Use the Function Generator
• Enhance functions to handle errors and return error codes
• Store functions in a function library
• Load functions from a start-up script
• Add functions to the Function Generator
• Use external functions
• Data-drive a test using queries, tables and plain text files
• Handle data driving exceptions
• Create custom checkpoints and user toolbars
• Use database record verification
• Create a custom database checkpoint
• Fix a data format conflict
• Restore the database
• Identify and manage custom GUI Map objects
• Create compound error recovery scenarios

Course content

Review of Using WinRunner

• Recording, synchronizing, verifying, and running scripts
• The GUI Map
• Data-driving

• Functions, variables, constants and operators
• Adding user interaction to a script
• Flow control
• Sending messages to the Test Results window

• Creating functions and compiled modules (libraries)
• Return codes and error handling
• Adding functions to the Function Generator and startup script

• Reading from and writing to the Data table
• Writing to spreadsheets and to text files

• Verifying database content, columns, and rows
• Performing runtime record checks

• Learning the properties of custom objects
• Mapping custom objects to standard classes
• Handling a custom object that cannot be mapped

• Use WinRunner Recovery Manager to create compound recovery scenarios

Related certifications
This course will introduce you to the skills required for the Mercury CPC in WinRunner. Candidates should also have at least six months experience of in-depth use of the product

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