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Although QA Wizard Pro supports a large number of third-party controls and technologies, there are always ones that our customers are working with that we haven’t quite gotten to. This is where our .Net invocation technology can really come in handy.

QA Wizard Pro’s .Net invocation allows you to call methods and access properties on .Net objects. This not only allows you to get at information that isn’t readily available to the user interface, but also to interact with controls that QA Wizard Pro doesn’t know about.

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This short video shows you how to record your first script in QA Wizard Pro and make minor modifications to refine scripts for cleaner playback.

Virtual machines offer a great way to run automated scripts in a separate, customized environment of your choosing. The virtual environment can exist without interfering with your normal computer. You can configure the virtual machine to ensure the environment remains constant on each script run. One way to make better use of actual machine resources is to have QA Wizard Pro start up and shut down the virtual machine on its own. This way the machine is only running when it is being used for automation.

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In QA Wizard Pro, you may need to select a specific item from a ComboBox but may only know partial information about the item. In cases like this, you can create a function and use a regular expression to select the item. In the following example, the FindItem function  takes a ComboBox LIST and uses pattern matching to find EXPR, which can be any valid regular expression. The regular expression allows you to select an item from a ComboBox.

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ClickOnce is a .NET application that enables the user to install and run a Windows application by clicking a link in a web page. Although a ClickOnce application cannot be launched directly from QA Wizard Pro, it is exceptionally easy to configure an automatic launch without requiring an additional program, add-in, or disabling any security features. The process is as follows:

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QA Wizard Pro automates the functional testing, regression testing, and load testing of web applications. This video provides an overview of how to create QA Wizard Pro scripts against web applications. You will be able to create your own automated scripts by following the same steps in your web site or web application.

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QA Wizard Pro automates the functional and regression testing of Windows applications. This video provides an overview of how to create QA Wizard Pro scripts against Windows applications. You will be able to create your own automated scripts by following the same steps in your own application.

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After recording a QA Wizard Pro script, the purpose of my recorded actions is still fresh in my mind. So I quickly add comments above code before I forget what I’ve done. When I have to revisit my scripts months later, those comments really come in handy.

But what happens after I record a long script? I usually get lazy and don’t add as many comments after recording. There are so many steps and actions that I forget what half of them do. Alternatively, I change my behavior to only record small scripts, making my recording efforts less efficient–but hey, at least I can remember everything I did and comment appropriately.

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QA Wizard Pro scripts can be run unattended by saving them as batch script files and using the Windows Task Scheduler to launch them at a scheduled time. The Scheduled Task Wizard gives you the option of running the script once at a specified time, or on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. But what do you do if that doesn’t fit your schedule? Perhaps you would like to monitor a web site and ensure it is up and running by logging in once every hour. To set this up for a twenty-four hour period, you would need to schedule 24 separate tasks to run at a specified time – a time-consuming task in itself. If the launch time changes, you would need to go back and modify each of those tasks individually. A better idea is to create another QA Wizard Pro script that allows you to launch the batch script file at a time interval you choose, as well as capture additional information such as total number of times the batch script was run or the number of times the login test failed.

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Web pages often include HTML elements that are not visible to the user. The web browser doesn’t render the elements on the screen, but it often includes their data in the GET and POST requests to the web server. The classic example is an INPUT element of type “hidden” used to embed name/value pairs. But any HTML element might have important attributes that you need to verify.

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