During recording or
editing, you can insert system clipboard commands into a functional test script.
You can also insert into a functional test script a verification point test
command against the active content in the system clipboard.
About this task
To insert a clipboard command into a script during recording or editing:
Procedure
- If recording, click the Insert Script Support Commands button
on the Recording Monitor toolbar.
- If editing:
- Position the pointer in the script where you want to insert
the comment.
- On the functional testing toolbar, click the Insert
Recording into Active Functional Test Script button
.
- On the Recording Monitor toolbar, click the Insert
Script Support Commands button
.
- In the Script Support Functions dialog box, click the Clipboard
tab.
- To insert the clipboard verification point test command into the
script, select the Verification Point tab and perform
the following:
- Type the verification point name in the VP Name field.
- Click the
Convert
Value to Regular Expression button to convert the system clipboard
value to a regular expression pattern. This is matched at runtime
against the system clipboard contents.
- Click the
Evaluate Regular Expression button
to evaluate the current pattern against the system clipboard contents. In the Evaluate Regular
Expression dialog box, the Pattern and Match
Against Value fields contain the current value. To try an expression,
change the value in the Pattern field and click the Evaluate button.
The Result indicates whether the expression matched.
Click OK.
- Click the Insert Code button to insert
the clipboard verification point command into the functional test script.
- You can also have clipboard text automatically pasted into an input
field during test runs. To assign the clipboard text to a script variable,
perform the following: and perform the following:
- Select the Assign Text tab
- Type the script Variable Name to which
you want to assign the clipboard text.
- Select the Precede variable assignment with type
declaration check box to precede the variable name with a string
type declaration.
- Click the Insert Code button to insert
in the functional test script the command for assigning the clipboard content
into a local variable.
- To update the contents of the system clipboard, select the Set
Text tab and perform the following steps:
- In the Set clipboard text to the following value field,
type the value for the clipboard.
- Click the Insert Code button to insert
into a functional test script the command for setting the content of the clipboard
to the supplied value.