Tutorial 8 - Compare Keyword view and Export view in QTP

This tutorial interprets the Keyword View and compares the Expert & Keyword View




Video Transcript with Key Takeaways highlighted

* The Keyword View is comprised of a table-like view where
* Each step is a separate row in the table and
* Each column represents different parts of the steps.
* Item Column contains the item on which you want to perform the step. This column uses icons displays the hierarchy of the GUI object on which operation is performed
* Operation Column contains the operation to be performed on the item.
* Value Column contains the argument values for the selected operation,
* QTP automatically documents each step for easy understanding in the Documentation Column
* These 4 columns are default but you can also use assignment & comment columns in Keyword View
* That’s all to the Keyword View
* Lets Compare the Keyword and Expert View using Step no 2 from our script. You will observe that the same object hierarchy is displayed in both Expert & Keyword Views and they map to the same operation and argument value.
* Essentially , Keyword & Expert view contain the same data but arranged in different format.
* In fact you can perform all operations like create , modifying a step . using the Keyword View but to gain mastery over the tool we will restrict ourselves to the Expert View