How to Work with UFT Developer Automation

This task describes methods for automating components with UFT Developer implementation.

Manually Add UFT Developer Automation to a Component

1. Prerequisites

   • Make sure UFT Developer is installed.

   • To be able to debug or run automated UFT Developer components, or view test results, make sure that UFT Developer 12.53 or later is installed. 

2. Select a component

   In the Business Components module window, select a component in the component tree.

3. Add UFT Developer implementation

   In the Automation tab, click and select UFT Developer.

   Enter the implementation details, and then the following UFT Developer details.

   UI Element	Description
   Framework	JUnit or NUnit.
   DLL/JAR Path	The path of the .dll or .jar file containing your test, depending on the framework (NUnit or JUnit). You can specify either a full file path or a relative path.
   Fully Qualified Class Name	The full name of your class including the namespace (NUnit) or package (JUnit). Example:   com.micro_focus.UFT Developer.end2endtest.myJavaApp MyFirstLeanFProject.MySite_ProductSearches
   Test Method Name	The name of the test method that this ALM test will run.

4. Parameterize components

   To expand the scope of your UFT Developer business components, use variable input and output parameter values components. For details, see How to Create Parameters.

5. Results

   • The UFT Developer automation of the component is complete.

   • The icon for the component changes from the manual icon to the UFT Developer icon. For icon details, see Business Process Testing Icons.

   • Tests and flows that contain fully automated UFT Developer components can run in an automatic runner without pausing for user input.

     • To run business process tests, add the components to a business process tests.

     • Add the tests to a test set and run as you would any other test.

     • The tests run on the UFT Developer machine.

     • When you run a UFT Developer test from the Test Lab module, the UFT Developer HTML report is stored in ALM.

   • For details, see Tests with UFT Developer Automation.

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Automatically Import UFT Developer Automation to a Component

The import tool enables you to automatically create tests or components for every test method defined in a UFT Developer NUnit or JUnit project, including setting up the relevant parameters.

1. Prerequisites

   • On your UFT Developer computer: 

     1. Create a UFT Developer NUnit or JUnit project containing one or more test methods. These test methods can be defined in a single .cs or .java file or in multiple files within the project.

        The test methods can include Business Process Testing input or output parameters. For more details on data driving your ALM tests and components, see the UFT Developer Help Center .

     2. Compile the DLL or export the JAR.

     3. Run the relevant export tool command line utility, found in the <UFT Developer installation>\Tools\TestExportTool folder.

2. Import

   In the Business Process Testing Business Components module in ALM, run the import:

   1. Right-click the folder where you want to add your components and click Import UFT Developer Components .

   2. In the Import UFT Developer Components browse dialog box, select the XML file generated with the export utility in UFT Developer and click Open.

      The Import UFT Developer Components dialog box displays the tests it found in the XML file.

   3. Select the components to import and click Import. Then click Close.

      Tip: You can also click Export to File.

   The import automatically creates new components with UFT Developer automation in the selected folder. All required fields are automatically set in the Automation tab, and all input and output parameters are defined in the corresponding Parameters tab.

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