Working with Objects

In Qualitia, Objects are the controls of the application under test. Objects are displayed with their attributes like object name and class. To describe a test object, you have to provide a set of property names and their property values. The test object description helps to identify the objects in Application under Test (AUT).

The Objects section on the Develop screen of Automation Studio allows you to perform object related functions such as create objects, edit objects, delete objects, search objects, import objects, and export objects.
On the left pane of the Develop screen, all the objects are organized in a tree view structure.
If you click any object in the tree on the left pane of the Develop screen, the right pane displays all the child objects with object details like object name, object class, and description. Below the properties pane, property and value of that object are displayed.
If an object in the tree does not have any child object, you can create a child object by clicking the following link that is displayed on the right pane, "Click here to create objects." The object repository maintains the object hierarchy that the user specifies while creating objects.  
Important Information on property values:

1. 1. Regular expressions can be used in the Property value field. Qualitia supports the regular expression syntax defined by the underlying tool. For example, suppose there is a Browser with the title Qualitia. A user can give the title property in the form of regular expression as Qua.*
   2. A key name can be used in the Property value field where the key name should be enclosed in braces. During execution, the value from the key will be retrieved and substituted for the corresponding Property. For example, suppose you have set up to store the value Qualitia in the key PropKey and then want to work on a Browser with the title Qualitia. In this case, on the Object Management screen, you can use the Property value for the Browser's title as {PropKey}. This is mainly to help you identify an object which has a runtime property value.
   3. Note that to use the value from the key, you must pass the key name in squiggly brackets. For example, if the key name is QKey, to use the value from the key, you must enclose the key name in squiggly brackets like {QKey}
   4. The scope of a key will remain only across the tasks within a test case.
   5. You can concatenate a key with a static string or a static string with a key. A key with a key combination can also be passed in the Property value field. For example, if you have set up to store two keys, Prop1Key and Prop2Key with values "Qua" and "litia" in them respectively. In this case, the following combinations in the property value field will yield output as shown below:

 
If the following characters are found in the property value of an object, they are preceded by '/' (forward slash) because these characters are used as identifiers in Qualitia.