descriptive programming with Python

 

As far as I know, descriptive coding is just a kind of interacting with application objects without calling them from the object repository. 

 

This can be implemented in different ways. For example:

 

app = Sys.Process("calc") #Windows calculator

class Button:
    def __init__(self, caption):
        self.button = app.Find(['WndClass', 'WndCaption'], 
                               ['Button', caption], 10)
        
    def click(self):
        self.button.Click()
        
        
class Keypad:
    def __init__(self):
        self.btn0 = Button(0)
        self.btn1 = Button(1)
        self.btn2 = Button(2)
        self.btn3 = Button(3)
        self.btn4 = Button(4)
        self.btn5 = Button(5)
        self.btn6 = Button(6)
        self.btn7 = Button(7)
        self.btn8 = Button(8)
        self.btn9 = Button(9)        
        
        
def test():
    keypad = Keypad()
    keypad.btn5.click()
    keypad.btn7.click()
    keypad.btn0.click()

 

As I understand it, Descriptive Programming is a QTP/UFT concept that TestComplete parallels in it's use of Aliases, NameMapping, FindChild, etc.  I'm not sure that there is an exact 1 to 1 method to do what QTP/UFT does in descriptive programming.