What is an Optional Step, Make Optional Step, QTP Optional Step Execution Example

What is an Optional Step, Make Optional Step, QTP Optional Step Execution Example

What is an Optional Step ?

When a step declared as optional which is not required or mandatory to be run or executed. And If the related object of GUI is available, QTP executed the process on it. And If the Object of GUI is not available, QTP always bypass the optional steps and proceed to execute or run the next further step

Quick Test Professional by default, holds the step that will open the dialog box provided below as the optional step:

Message Boc or Dialog Box title Bar:

AutoComplete

File Download

Internet Explorer

Netscape

Error

Enter Network Password

Security Alert

Security Warning

Security Information

Password and User name mandatory

1. Optional steps are not required to complete the run or execution session.
   
2. Optional Dialog Box step if not open or run then Simply QTP will avoid the such step and move the further and remain continue for rest of Run session. And at the end of this session a alert will display about the left optional step or fail step for run session.
   
3. And if there is not any optional steps and then if QTP fails for any step then it will display the error message:
   

We can also add an optional steps in Expert View with adding optional steps to the beginning of VB Script – For Example:

OptionalStep.Browser(“Browser”).Dialog(“AutoComplete”).WinButton(“Cancel”).Click

Simple Real World Example of Optional Steps:

1. First confirm that one blank IE window or blank test window is open already.
   
2. Now Just click on Record to start the Recording in QTP.
   
3. Now Go To Start → Programms → Quick Test Professional → Sample Applications → Flight
   
4. Now Enter the User Name, Password and then hit the enter Key
   
5. Now flight Apps will open and from it Go to on → File – Exit.
   
6. Now need to close the IE window so close it.
   
7. Now need to stop the recording so click on Stop to stop.
   

For Keyword View, Following are the Steps:

Now before we execute the test make sure Internet Explorer window is NOT open yet.

The idea is when we execute the above explained test without IE, it doesn't display any error message validation or fail, it will just bypass the ‘browser closing’ step as we have marked it Optional and it will ignore any error for the optional step. But it shows us the warning in the result of test.

Try to run the same test by just removing the ‘Optional Step’ tag from the above lines and see that it will fail and show us the Run Error.

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