Teaching OpenText Functional Testing to Recognize the Testing Environment

The testing environment is the set of test objects and their properties and methods that OpenText Functional Testing needs to recognize in applications developed in your environment. To support recognizing objects in this testing environment, you must provide OpenText Functional Testing with all of the information that describes the environment.

Your testing environment must have a unique name that distinguishes it from other environments supported by registered Testing Agents. You use this name (also known as the PackageName or environment ID) to register your Testing Agent on the OpenText Functional Testing computer. For more information, see Registering Your Testing Agent.

In addition, you define a display name for your environment (also known as the AddinName). This name is displayed in OpenText Functional Testing, in windows that display a list of add-ins or supported environments.

When OpenText Functional Testing opens, it checks for registered Testing Agents and displays their environment display names in the Add-in Manager. The OpenText Functional Testing user can select an environment, instructing OpenText Functional Testing to create the environment's Testing Agent COM object.

OpenText Functional Testing requests the basic description of the testing environment during the initial handshake with the Testing Agent. To provide this information, you implement the GetTestingEnvironment method in the ITestable interface.

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