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• Alphanumeric: Captures and TESTS alphanumeric data in Windows objects that contain text, such as edit boxes, check boxes, group boxes, labels, push buttons, RADIO buttons, toolbars, and windows (captions).
• Clipboard: Captures and compares alphanumeric data that has been copied to the Clipboard.
• File Comparison: Compares TWO specified files during playback.
• File Existence: Verifies the existence of a specified file during playback.
• Menu: Captures and compares the menu title, menu items, shortcut keys, and the state of selected menus.
• Module Existence: Verifies whether a specified module is loaded into a specified context (process), or is loaded ANYWHERE in memory.
• Object Data : Captures and compares the data inside standard Windows objects.
• Object Properties : Captures and compares the properties of standard Windows objects.
• Region Image : Captures a region of the screen as a bitmap.
• WEB Site Compare : Captures a baseline of a Web site and compares it to the Web site at another point in time.
• Web Site Scan : Checks the contents of a Web site with every revision and ensures that changes have not resulted in defects.
• Window Existence: Verifies the existence and status of a specified window during playback.
• Window Image: Captures a window as a bitmap.

1. Start to create the verification point.
2. In the Verification Point Name dialog box, select Apply WAIT state to verification point.
3. Type values for the following options: Retry every - How OFTEN Robot retries the verification point during playback. Robot retries until the verification point passes or until the TIMEOUT limit is REACHED.

Timeout after - The maximum amount of time that Robot waits for the verification point to pass before it times out. If the timeout limit is reached and the verification point has not passed, Robot enters a failure in the log. The script playback either continues or stops based on the setting in the Error Recovery TAB of the GUI Playback Options dialog box.

Timeout after - The maximum amount of time that Robot waits for the verification point to pass before it times out. If the timeout limit is reached and the verification point has not passed, Robot enters a failure in the log. The script playback either continues or stops based on the setting in the Error Recovery tab of the GUI Playback Options dialog box.

1. Use the Web Site Scan verification point to check the content of your Web site with every revision and ensure that CHANGES have not resulted in DEFECTS.
2. Use the Web Site Compare verification point to CAPTURE a BASELINE of your Web site and compare it to the Web site at another point in time.

The verification METHOD specifies how ROBOT COMPARES the baseline data CAPTURED while recording with the data captured during PLAYBACK.

The verification method specifies how Robot compares the baseline data captured while recording with the data captured during playback.

An identification METHOD TELLS Robot how to identify the VALUES to COMPARE during RECORD and playback.

An identification method tells Robot how to identify the values to compare during record and playback.

1. Right-CLICK the verification point name in the Asset (left) pane and click RENAME.
2. Type the new name and press ENTER.
3. Click the TOP of the script in the Script (right) pane.
4. Click Edit > Replace.
5. Type the old name in the FIND what box. Type the new name in the Replace with box.
6. Click Replace All.

• Right-click the verification point name in the Asset (left) pane and click Delete.
• Click the TOP of the script in the Script (right) pane.
• Click Edit > FIND.
• TYPE the name of the deleted verification point in the Find what box.
• Click Find Next.
• Delete the entire line, which starts with RESULT=.
• Repeat steps 5 and 6 until you have deleted all REFERENCES.

TESTMANAGER has a WIZARD that you can USE to copy or import test scripts and other test assets (Datapools) from one PROJECT to another.

TestManager has a wizard that you can use to copy or import test scripts and other test assets (Datapools) from one project to another.

Rational TestFactory is a component-based testing tool that AUTOMATICALLY generates TestFactory scripts according to the application’s navigational structure. TestFactory is integrated with ROBOT and its components to provide a full array of TOOLS for team testing under Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 95.

With TestFactory, you can:

• Automatically create and maintain a detailed map of the application-under-test.
• Automatically generate both scripts that provide extensive product coverage and scripts that encounter defects, without recording.
• Track executed and UNEXECUTED source code, and REPORT its detailed findings.
• Shorten the product testing cycle by minimizing the time invested in writing navigation code.
• Play back Robot scripts in TestFactory to see extended code coverage information and to create regression suites; play back TestFactory scripts in Robot to debug them.

Rational TestFactory is a component-based testing tool that automatically generates TestFactory scripts according to the application’s navigational structure. TestFactory is integrated with Robot and its components to provide a full array of tools for team testing under Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 95.

With TestFactory, you can:

USE the Rational Administrator to:

• create and manage projects.
• Create a project under configuration MANAGEMENT.
• Create a project outside of configuration management.
• Connect to a project.
• See projects that are not on your machine (register a project).
• DELETE a project.
• Create and manage users and groups for a Rational Test datastore.
• Create and manage projects containing Rational RequisitePro projects and Rational Rose models.
• Manage SECURITY privileges for the entire Rational project.
• Configure a SQL Anywhere database server.

Use the Rational Administrator to:

A datapool is a source of variable TEST data that SCRIPTS can DRAW from during PLAYBACK.

A datapool is a source of variable test data that scripts can draw from during playback.

You use TestManager to view the LOGS that are created when you run scripts and schedules.

Use the log to: View the results of running a script, including verification POINT failures, procedural failures, aborts, and any additional playback information. Reviewing the results in the log reveals whether each script and verification point passed or failed.

Use the COMPARATORS to: Analyze the results of verification points to determine why a script may have failed.

Robot includes four Comparators:

1. Object Properties Comparator
2. Text Comparator
3. Grid Comparator
4. Image Comparator

You use TestManager to view the logs that are created when you run scripts and schedules.

Use the log to: View the results of running a script, including verification point failures, procedural failures, aborts, and any additional playback information. Reviewing the results in the log reveals whether each script and verification point passed or failed.

Use the Comparators to: Analyze the results of verification points to determine why a script may have failed.

Robot includes four Comparators:

A VERIFICATION point is a point in a SCRIPT that you CREATE to confirm the state of an object ACROSS builds of the application-under-test.

A verification point is a point in a script that you create to confirm the state of an object across builds of the application-under-test.

• Do one of the following:
• If recording, click the Display GUI Insert Toolbar button on the GUI Record toolbar.
• If EDITING, position the pointer in the SCRIPT and click the Display GUI Insert Toolbar button on the Standard toolbar.
• Click a verification point button on the GUI Insert toolbar.
• In the Verification Point Name dialog box, edit the name as APPROPRIATE. The name can be a maximum of 20 characters.
• Optionally, set the Wait state options. For information, see the next section, Setting a Wait State for a Verification Point.
• Optionally, set the Expected result option.
• Click OK.

• Rational Robot is a complete set of components for automating the testing of Microsoft WINDOWS client/server and Internet applications.
• The main component of Robot lets you START RECORDING tests in as few as two MOUSE clicks. After recording, Robot plays back the tests in a fraction of the time it would take to repeat the ACTIONS manually.