General Help Questions in QTP

• How does QuickTest handle session IDs?

The server, not the browser, handles session IDs, usually by a cookie or by embedding the session ID in all links. This does not affect QuickTest.

• How does QuickTest handle server redirections?

When the server redirects the client, the client generally does not notice the redirection, and misdirection generally do not occur. In most cases, the client is redirected to another script on the server. This additional script produces the HTML code for the subsequent page to be viewed. This has no effect on QuickTest or the browser.

• How does QuickTest handle meta tags?

Meta tags do not affect how the page is displayed. Generally, they contain information only about who created the page, how often it is updated, what the page is about, and which keywords represent the page's content. Therefore, QuickTest has no problem handling meta tags.

• Does QuickTest work with .asp?

Dynamically created Web pages utilizing Active Server Page technology have an .asp extension. This technology is completely server-side and has no bearing on QuickTest.

• Does QuickTest work with COM?

QuickTest complies with the COM standard.

QuickTest supports COM objects embedded in Web pages (which are currently accessible only using Microsoft Internet Explorer) and you can drive COM objects in VBScript.

• Does QuickTest work with XML?

XML is eXtensible Markup Language, a pared-down version of SGML for Web documents, that enables Web designers to create their own customized tags. QuickTest supports XML and recognizes XML tags as objects.

You can also create XML checkpoints to check the content of XML documents in Web pages, frames or files. QuickTest also supports XML output and schema validation.