This document provides an overview of key features and concepts for using the Visual Script tool in Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester, including how to view and understand script components like pages, addresses, and actions that make up a recorded script. It also covers capturing additional events, adding advanced actions, and troubleshooting scripts.

1. Features of The Visual Script Introduction to Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester

2. Script Views Scripts are viewed in a “tree” style hierarchy Click the “+” sign to expand a node or click the “-” to close a node Right -click a page node and select Expand Page to view the entire contents of the page Collapse page to close all nodes

3. Page Properties Page Properties: allows you to view additional information about the selected visual script node. View the properties by: Right-clicking a node and selecting “Properties” Select “Edit”/“Properties”

4. Page Components (Nodes) Each page is divided into two major sections or “nodes”: Address Node: contains recorded actions, navigations, URL, page timers, and parameters. Frame Node: contains the content of the page

5. The Address Node Introduction to Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester

6. Address Node Cookies: names and values for cookie information transferred between the browser and web server. Parameters: user input from data submitted to the current page from a form on the previous page. Headers: information passed to the server in the HTTP header. Duration Master/Tested: length of time taken to download the page during script record/playback. The tested time updates each time script is played. Delay: length of time the user spent on the previous page before navigating to the current page.

7. Address Node Properties Right-click the Address node and select “Address Properties” to get more information on the navigations that were recorded. Navigations show how you got from the previous page to the current page you are looking at. e-Tester records the DHTML path and event type for each object you interacted with. e-Tester uses the path to find the object then fires the recorded event during playback. The listing of path to objects and their events are known as actions.

8. Address Properties Page No. and Title User Actions (DHMTL) Page Load Times Fully Qualified URL User Think Time

9. Understanding Actions e-Tester is optimized for maximum performance. Two events that are automatically recorded are: OnClick OnChange Additional events can be captured when necessary onMouseOver onMouseUp onKeyPress And others Performance may be severely impacted if there are many events to execute.

10. Understanding Actions Anytime a user clicks an object on a webpage, an action is generated. Actions performed on a given step eventually cause navigation to a subsequent page which is where the action information is stored. Action Sample: Event: click Object: link with text “account summary” Index: fourth link on the page

11. Understanding Actions Example 2: Event: click Frame: named “main” Index: 2 nd element in the form “login” Object: form element with name “login button” (within form named “login”)

12. Pages Without Actions The first page of a script (unless the actions are carried over from another script). Auto-Page/Auto-Split: page or frame that was returned without any action taken by user (client-side redirection). Unexpected Auto-Pages/Auto-Splits may be due to the user not allowing the page to fully download before performing the next navigation or incorrect settings for Java applets.

13. Dynamic Addresses Dynamic URLs can contain one or more variable parameters (example, session id). e-Tester handles dynamic URLs by performing the recorded actions rather than requesting the recorded URL’s. http://www.foo.com/home.jsp?SessionID=18a81b0&EngineID=32a1

14. Capturing Events - Advanced Introduction to Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester

15. Events Capturing The Visual Script Events Capture interface allows users to specify additional custom DHTML events for e-Tester to record and playback. Capture and fire events to record/playback that may be required for script execution.

16. Events Capturing Select Options/Current Script/Recording/Event Recording Choose the Element Tag and Event Name to record, and click Add Event.

17. Events Capturing The events specified in the event recording options will appear in the address properties. This example shows a blur event on input elements that was added in the event recording interface.

18. Events Capturing Be careful when adding events and know what you are adding and why. Unnecessary events can have serious impact on the speed and performance of script recording and playback. Unnecessary events make the script more difficult to debug.

19. Events Capturing The following is an example of an unnecessary mouseOver and mouseOut event on links.

20. Events Capturing All the user did was mouse over some links before picking the one needed

21. Events Capturing e-Tester can look at every object on page and automatically record certain common events handlers if it detects that an event handler was fired on the object Event handlers include: onblur, onchange, onfocus, onmouseover, and more Useful for highly dynamic applications that make extensive use of JavaScript event handlers on objects that affect navigation Controlled by setting SmartEventRecording=True through the Settings Manager

22. “ Advanced” Actions In the Address Node Introduction to Oracle Application Testing Suite: e-Tester

23. Advanced Actions Users can manually modify a script without re-recording by adding actions. DHTML objects that were recorded can can be replaced. DHTML objects that were not recorded can be added. Select the Advanced tab

24. Advanced Actions Create a New Event by selecting the “Create New Event” icon from the advanced tab

25. Advanced Actions Click the object for which to add the new action on the web page. The Object Selector places the path of the selected object in the “Selected Path” field after it is clicked. Hit ok to capture the new object path

26. Advanced Actions Once the object is selected, e-Tester has a new path (object) it will perform a DHTML action on. Select the event type to cause e-Tester to perform the DHTML Action Example: Click, Mouse Over, and so on.

27. Advanced Actions The new action has been added to the Actions portion of the Address properties. Actions can be dragged and dropped into the correct sequential location.

28. Advanced Actions Actions can be cut, copied, pasted, or deleted by right clicking as shown.

29. Advanced Actions The entire group of actions can be played back in the page by using the “Play All Events” button on the Advanced tab. Click to select an action of interest and play it individually with the “Play Selected Events” button from the advanced tab.

30. Review 2 Explain the components of the following action: click + window(index=0).link(text="browse products" href= http://jersey/fmstocks/browse.asp | index=10) 2 . Why does e-Tester only record onClick and onChange without adjustments? Why not add all events for all objects? 3. True/False e-Tester navigates the pages by the URL. 4. How can actions be added to a page in a script? 5. In the address properties of page 4 of a given script there is a list of actions. What page were the actions actually performed on? 6. Sally has a script that fails to playback because a keyPress event is required for a text box on one page. What is the better solution? A. Use the event capture interface and add the onKeyPress event for text boxes. B. Use the advanced action to add a single onKeyPress for the specific text box C. Manually test the transaction