Automated-Tests with Testsuites

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  Huysmans Member Posts: 13

  2004-08-02

  If your interested in quality free-ware you might want to take a good look at AutoIt (www.hiddensoft.com). This tool could be usefull. It is a general purpose scripting language with excellent documentation and support.
  
  I am in no way related to the authors. Just a happy user.

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  BeniHoch Member Posts: 15

  2004-08-03

  Thank you for your hint - the programm seems to be very interesting. I have only one problem: The Navision Controls aren't recognised als controls. Do you have any Solution for this problem?

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  Huysmans Member Posts: 13

  2004-08-04

  You are right. I've managed to deal with this using one of the following:

  * use function-keys whenever possible * use alt combinations to activate buttons/menu-options/controls * use sequence like ctrl-home, home to go to first position on multi-record pane * use tab (or shift-tab) to move between fields * use ctrl-page_down (page_up) to move between tab-style forms

  Further way to minimize your programming efforts (each time the userinterface changes) is to create one function per form/report taking care of specific data entry. Create an overal script which initiates the Navision session, manouvers between the seperate forms/reports and calls the specific functions for data-entry.
  
  Note users can rearrange their own display format. This can cause some nasty surprices. Like key-field not being first field on screen etc. You can work around this by using standardized zup files when using AutoIt.[/list]

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