Tutorial 20 - All about Smart Identification in QTP

This tutorial demonstrates SMART Identification process in QTP.For the first time, the tutorial makes use of a Web Environment.



points to remember

* If the usual object identification process fails , QTP triggers Smart Identification , which is more flexible mechanism for identifying objects provided it is enabled in Object Identification settings.
* Smart Identification uses two categories of properties 1) Base Filter Properties & 2) Optional Filter Properties
* Base Filter Properties. It contains the most fundamental properties of a particular test object class; those whose values cannot be changed without changing the essence of the original object
* Optional Filter Properties. Other properties that can help identify objects
* Quick Test "forgets" the learned test object description and creates a new object candidate list containing the objects that match all of the properties defined in the Base Filter Properties list.
* QTP the Uses Base Filter Property to reduce the Object Candidate list
* The idea is to narrow down only one object matching the some or all of the saved description properties
* If smart identification is invoked during a test run ,in the test results tree a warning message is generated indicating smart identification was invoked and a smart identification step is inserted.