HP QTP Utility Statements : LoadAndRunAction Statement
September 10, 2018
HP QTP Utility Statements : LoadAndRunAction Statement
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LoadAndRunAction Statement
Abstract
The LoadAndRunAction statement is used to start the QTP or UFT test action. You can call any external action you want to load and run within your different test action.
The statement in itself falls under the category of utility statements and not utility objects.
**Remember there is a difference between utility statements and utility objects.
Before we dig down deep into the usage let’s quickly visit some general questions.
In the interview usually, you might be questioned in different ways like:
- How to get your windows application invoked in the test run?
- Can you associate the parameters to the LoadAndRunAction statement?
- What are the objects and parameters of LoadAndRunAction statement?
- is LoadAndRunAction is an object or statement?
- What is the difference between LoadAndRunAction and RunAction statements?
Discussion
The LoadAndRunAction statement loads the specified test action when this step or statement is executed, and then runs the action.
Suppose you have a main test which have many test actions. Plus you want to call some external actions which are part of some other test. These external actions call sequence is not clear to you but you completely understand that these steps can be called within the main test action. In this case, of course, you can opt for calling those external ones via this statement.
The next question comes is what about the OR and other related artifacts of external action?.
When ever the external action is called all is imported during run and nothing before that. So this reduces overwork and chaos floating around and streamlines the process.
You can pass parameters too, if the called external actions has defined already.
For an input parameter, specify either a fixed value or the name of another defined parameter (Data Table parameter, environment parameter, or an action input parameter of the calling action) from which the argument should take its value.
For an output parameter, specify either a variable in which you want to store the value or the name of a defined parameter (Data Table parameter, environment parameter, or an action output parameter of the calling action).
If you want to iterate the external action, then you can use
— oneIteration or 0 (Default)—Runs the action only once, using the row in the action’s data sheet that corresponds to the global data sheet iteration counter.
If the action’s data sheet contains fewer rows than the global sheet, the last row of the action’s data sheet will be used for each subsequent iteration.
— allIterations or 1—Runs iterations on all rows.
Points to note here:
- This LoadAndRunAction statement is not supported in the Command tab of the Debug Viewer pane.
- If the action called by the LoadAndRunAction statement includes an ExitAction statement, the LoadAndRunAction statement returns the value of the ExitAction’s RetVal argument. For more information, see ExitAction Statement.
Syntax
LoadAndRunAction(TestPath, ActionName, [Iteration], [Parameters])
Let’s see the parameters and their usage description for this statement:
| Argument | Type | Description |
| TestPath | Variant | The path of the test containing the action. You can specify an absolute file system path, a Quality Center path, or a relative path. |
| ActionName | Variant | The name of the action. |
| Iteration | Variant | This is Optional.
— oneIteration or 0 (Default) — allIterations or 1—Runs iterations on all rows. |
| Parameters | Variant | This is Optional.
The values and storage locations for the called action’s input and output parameters. Input parameters are listed before output parameters. |
Return Value
Variant.
Example 1
The following example loads Action1 in QTPTest1 and runs one iteration of the action.
'The following example loads Action1 in Test1 and runs one iteration of the action.
CustType = DataTable.Value("Cust_Type","dtGlobalSheet")
NumOfOrder = DataTable.Value("Number_of_items","dtGlobalSheet")
While NumOfOrder > 0
NumOfOrder = NumOfOrder - 1
If CustType = "Gold" or CustType = "Silver" or CustType = "Bronze" Then
LoadAndRunAction "c:\QTPTest\OrderActions", CustType&"Order"
Else 'Error value
WrongDataValue CustType
End If
Wend
Example 2
The following example also loads Action1 in Test1 and runs one iteration of the action. This example uses an environment variable for the TestPath parameter.
'Example 2
CustType = DataTable.Value("Customer_Type","dtGlobalSheet")
OrderCnt = DataTable.Value("Number_of_items","dtGlobalSheet")
TestPath="c:\QTPTest\"
While OrderCnt > 0
OrderCnt = OrderCnt - 1
If CustType = "Gold" Then
LoadAndRunAction Environment("default_path")&"OrderActions", "GoldOrder",oneiteration, OrderCnt
Elseif CustType = "Silver" Then
LoadAndRunAction TestPath&"OrderActions", "SilverOrder", oneiteration, OrderCnt
Elseif CustType = "Normal" Then
LoadAndRunAction TestPath&"OrderActions", "NormalOrder", oneiteration, OrderCnt
Else 'Error value
Msgbox "WrongDataValue CustType "
End If
Wend
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