BPT Testing Tab (Options Dialog Box)

Relevant for: business process tests and flows

This tab enables you to set options for parameter use of a BPT test and its components in OpenText Functional Testing.

To access

Select Tools > Options > BPT Testing tab.
Important information

Clicking the Restore Factory Defaults button resets all product settings, including ALM connection information, the recent files list, and anything defined in the Options dialog box, such as startup options, UI layout, GUI, API, and BPT testing options, remote connection credentials, and more.
Relevant tasks

User interface elements are described below:

UI Element

 Description
Promote component parameters

Determines whether OpenText Functional Testing automatically promotes parameters to the flow or test level (when adding a component to a flow or test) or promotes flow parameters to the test level (when adding a flow to a test).
Always link to existing test parameters

Determines whether OpenText Functional Testing uses an existing test parameter during promotion or creates an additional test parameter, when a parameter with the same name already exists in the test or flow.

If selected, the Test/Flow Parameter Name suffix is removed, because the parameter may have been promoted from multiple components.
Automatically open Object Repository after Capture Opens the local object repository window after you close the capture toolbar to enable you to edit the objects captured in your object repository.
Load internal data for flows contained as part of business process tests Load the parameter and iteration value data for any flows contained when opening a business process test.
Auto-parameterization level

Instructs OpenText Functional Testing which objects to automatically parameterize:

  • Parameterize user input only: OpenText Functional Testing parameterizes only those objects where a user performs an action (such as buttons, text edits.).
  • Parameterize all steps: OpenText Functional Testing parameterizes all objects in a given window of an application.

Note: If you want to specify exactly which objects to parameterize, you can set these properties in the configuration XML, located at <Installdir>\bin\SmartAutoParameterizationConfig.xml.
UI Element Description
Automatically parameterize steps using Business Component parameters: Enables you to use the Business component parameters as the step value parameters
Reuse mode

Instructs OpenText Functional Testing how to reuse already existing components when learning components with the BPT Packaged Apps Kit. You can select one of the following options:

  • Manually select components for reuse: After OpenText Functional Testing analyzes the learned components and compares them to existing components, this option enables you to select which components to reuse.
  • Automatically reuse identical components: Enables OpenText Functional Testing to reuse a component that is the same as the learned component without prompting you.
Ignore comments when comparing scripts Instructs OpenText Functional Testing to ignore any comment steps when comparing newly learned components to existing components after learning an application.
Learn Flow Parameter Values

Instructs OpenText Functional Testing how to create parameters when learning or reusing components. You can select one of the following options:

  • Use the default values from the learned flow: Instructs OpenText Functional Testing to use whatever values are learned for those parameters, even if the component is reused from an already existing component.
  • Use the values from the reused components: Instructs OpenText Functional Testing to use the values that are saved with the reused component instead of the values learned during the current session.
Component Type

Instructs OpenText Functional Testing on the default type of component to create when learning. You can select from either a Keyword GUI component or a Scripted GUI component.

For details on the types of components, see Business components and application areas.
UI Element Description
Automatically parameterize steps using Business Component parameters Instructs OpenText Functional Testing to create business component parameters (where possible) for test objects when recording, and use these parameters as the value of the test objects in the test steps.
Automatically create snapshot for newly recorded components when recording a BPT test Instructs OpenText Functional Testing to take a snapshot of the application window/page when recording.
Automatically check in newly recorded components when recording a BPT test If you are working in a version-controlled ALM project, this option instructs OpenText Functional Testing to prompt you to check in all components created during a recording of a business process test.