6 Notes About HP UFT 12.52

The test tool HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) provides support for UI Automation testing as of version 12.52. However, UFT does not fully support all UIA Control Types, but is limited to the most important Control Types and Control Patterns. Therefore, this chapter is only informative and should not replace reading the UFT documentation.

The UIA (UI Automation) support of UFT can be outlined as follows:

• The UI Automation add-in must be activated.
• For identification with the Object Spy, the UI Automation Mode must be enabled.
• Object identification is based on the UIA Properties Name and AutomationId.

• The following UIA Control Types are recognized and converted into an appropriate UFT Object Model:

  UIA Control Type	UFT Object Model
  Button	UIAButton
  Calendar	UIACalendar
  CheckBox	UIACheckBox
  ComboBox	UIAComboBox
  Edit	UIAEdit
  HyperLink	UIAHyperLink
  List	UIAList
  RadioButton	UIARadioButton
  Slider	UIASlider
  Tab	UIATab
  DataGrid	UIATable
  SplitButton	UIASplitButton
  Window	UIAWindow
  Table	UIATable
  ... andere ...	UIAObject

• The following UIA Control Patterns are supported by UFT via special methods on the UIA Objects:

  UIA Control Pattern	UFT Methods
  ExpandCollapse	.Expand .Collapse
  Grid	.GetItem
  Invoke	.Click
  RangeValue	.Decrement .Increment .SetValue
  Scroll	.Scroll .ScrollDown .ScrollUp .ScrollLeft .ScrollRight .SetScrollPercent
  ScrollItem	.ScrollIntoView
  Selection	.Select .AddToSelection .RemoveFromSelection .GetSelection
  SelectionItem	.Select .AddToSelection .RemoveFromSelection
  Table	.GetRowHeaders .GetColumnHeaders
  TableItem	.GetRowHeaderItems .GetColumnHeaderItems
  Transform	.Move .Resize .Rotate
  Toggle	.Set
  Value	.SetValue
  Window	.Maximize .Minimize .Restore .Close

This means that not all IDM object classes are distinguishably recognized as test objects with own UIA Class by UFT. This includes the IDM object classes:

• toolbar
• statusbar
• scrollbar
• splitbox
• menubox, menuitem, menusep
• spinbox
• progressbar
• image
• rectangle
• control
• layoutbox, groupbox, splitbox
• edittext (RTF)

However, these should be recognized by UFT as generic UIAObjects and capable of being sufficiently tested and manipulated by the supported Pattern Methods.

It should be noted that with UI Automation Microsof covers the domains of accessibility and test automation, but does not provide full and correct capturing of user interaction. In this respect, the recording of user interaction by UFT in UI Automation Mode is often incomplete and may also be faulty.

This can be seen, for instance, when recording a menu interaction on a submenu. UFT generates the following malfunctioning script, which does not contain a Click on the menu:

UIAWindow("Main window").UIAMenu("Application menu").UIAObject("File").Expand
UIAWindow("Main window").UIAMenu("File").UIAObject("Submenu").Expand

A working script however would look like this:

UIAWindow("Main window").UIAMenu("Application menu").UIAObject("File").Click
UIAWindow("Main window").UIAMenu("File").UIAObject("Submenu").Click
UIAWindow("Main window").UIAMenu("File").Select "Submenu;Menu A"

Recording in Windows Mode produces the following working script:

Window("Main window").WinMenu("File").Select "File;Submenu;Menu A"