Self-Guided PowerBuilder Tutorial

Zeenyx® AscentialTest Self-Guided Tutorial for PowerBuilder Thank you for choosing to evaluate AscentialTest. This tutorial will guide you through the process of building an AscentialTest project for a PowerBuilder target application. It will help you learn the basic features of AscentialTest quickly so that you can apply the same techniques to your target application. Please […]

Returning the Target Application to the Base State

Introduction The ‘start’ and ‘finish’ phases are essential components of an automated testing project. The ‘start’ phase defines what occurs before a test is run. The finish phase defines what occurs after. AscentialTest is designed so that each test automatically has a start and finish phase. The start phase is mostly generated for the user […]

AscentialTest Defining Tabbed Windows

Introduction AscentialTest users often ask how to define App Objects for tabbed windows. While there are several possible approaches, this paper presents what Zeenyx Support considers the best practice. Exploring the Alternatives: Tabbed windows are often implemented within a top level window like a Dialogbox or MDIChild. Here is an example. This MDIChild has three […]

Test Management with AscentialTest

Test management provides several challenges to Quality Assurance teams. As organizations create large volumes of automated and manual tests, they often struggle to organize, categorize and prioritize them so that they can be fully utilized in an efficient way. The problem is exacerbated when organizations choose test development and test management tools that are not […]

Managing Test Dependencies in AscentialTest

While it is good practice to design automated tests to be independent, it is not always expeditious. There are situations where the data state of a test environment is difficult to manage or where the ‘stateful’ nature of a transaction requires components to be built one upon another. In these cases, a system of managing […]

Defining PowerBuilder Toolbar Objects

Most PowerBuilder applications contain at least one toolbar. AscentialTest recognizes the individual tools in the toolbar, using the ‘RenderImage’ feature. Follow these steps to define PowerBuilder Toolbar objects: Find the tool bar element in the Elements tree and drag it to the App Objects tree under the App Object definition for the application’s main window: […]