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tristaanogre
14 years agoEsteemed Contributor
There's a companion book as well called TestComplete 8 made easy . I'd recommend this one along with the Keyword Testing one. The reason being is that there's certain things that you can do with coded scripts that, while possible with Keyword Tests, are more cumbersome. For example, I have yet to find a nice way of creating a customer SQL Query using a keyword test to retrieve data from a database for use in the "next" test in a data driven loop. For that matter, when creating a DDT framework, sometimes you want to retrieve select records from one of your data files rather than retrieve all records. The standard DDT Loop in Keyword testing retrieve all records or a hard-coded range of records while using DDT Drivers and manipulating the ADOCommandObject.CommandText properties allows you to pass in custom SQL queries to retrieve only specific records.
BOTH books I would highly recommend as, while they are not necessarily "So you want to set up a data driven framework... here's what you do", they do walk you though a lot of the basic necessities of navigating around the tool, the various different features, and the many different built in objects and such.
BOTH books I would highly recommend as, while they are not necessarily "So you want to set up a data driven framework... here's what you do", they do walk you though a lot of the basic necessities of navigating around the tool, the various different features, and the many different built in objects and such.