What is Check Point in QTP : Business Analysts and System Analysts FAQ

Check Points

There are 6 major Check Points:

1) Standard check point: “Standard check point” looks only inside the area.
2) Text check point: “Text check point” looks into the house and around.
3) Text area check point: “Text area check point” can capture a whole block at once.
4) Bitmap check point: “Bitmap check point” can capture whole or part of a picture. It is only for images.
5) Data base check point: Data base check point is used to retrieve data from the database by writing SQL Queries.
6) XML check point: Used only for web application developed by Java, XML etc.

Standard Check Point:
To try it in active screen:
Ø Click on the link e.g. www.cnn.com. When the page opens keep the screen half and half.
Ø In “Expert view” go to “Insert”
Ø Go to “Check point”
Ø Click on “Standard checkpoint”.
In there you will get a hand symbol and where ever you want to activate, “Click”. You will be clicking on the “Radio buttons”, “Check boxes”, “Dropdown Lists”, “Web Edit boxes”, “Text area boxes” as well as for the “Text” also. Standard check points look inside the boxes.
Ø “Run”
Ø Go to “View”, - “Active screen” to check.
All the properties will be in the “Object Repository”.

Text Check Point:

Text Check point will capture the text that we click on and let us know what is before and after.
Ø In “Expert view” go to “Insert”
Ø Go to “Check point”
Ø Click on “Text check point”
Then click on the “Text” part that you want to capture.
To check the properties of the check point: in “keyboard view” highlight on the “Check checkpoint”, then right click. Then click on the “Checkpoint properties” and you can see all the properties.

Text Area Check Point

With “Text area check point” we can capture the whole block of text at once.
We go to “Insert”>”Check point”> “Text area check point” and the curser turns into 4 sided arrows and then you click on the part of text you choose and drag it to the part that you want to capture. When we don’t have check points we can find changes made in the “Object repository”.

Bitmap Checkpoint

We use bitmap checkpoint to capture pictures. We go to “Insert”>”Check point”> “Bitmap check point” and click on the picture that we want. We can capture whole or part of the picture. To capture part of it we have to click first on the whole picture and then click on the “Selected area”. Then we capture the part that we want.

Data Base Check Point

Data base check point is to retrieve a data by writing a query with SQL/Oracle statement.
Ø “Insert”>”Check point”>”Data base check point”
“Data base Query Wizard” will appear.
Ø Click on “Specify SQL statements manually”
Ø Click on “Next”
Ø Click on “Create”
Ø Click on “Machine data source”
Ø QT_flight32
Ø “OK”
You are back on wizard. Type on SQL statement: “select * from orders:”
Ø Click “finish”
In the wizard the order form comes up. Then highlight the one you choose and “Finish”.
Ø “Data base Query Wizard” will appear.
Ø Click on “Specify SQL statements manually”
Ø Click on “Next”
Ø Click on “Create”
Ø Click on “Machine data source”
Ø QT_flight32
Ø “OK”
In the wizard the order form will come up.
Type on SQL statement: “select * from orders: where customer_name = ‘Kim Smith’;”
Ø Finish
You will get the information of the customer “Kim Smith”.

What is check point in qtp