HP QTP Utility Statements : ExitActionIteration Statement

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ExitActionIteration Statement

Abstract

The ExitActionIteration statement is used to get the current action iteration exited and return to the parent calling action. This statement is called as a priority step or statement whenever defined. The statement in itself falls under the category of utility statements and not utility objects. Remember there is a difference between utility statements and utility objects.

Before we dig down deep into the usage let’s quickly visit some general questions.

In the interview usually, you might be questioned in different ways like:

1. How to get current iteration of the action (in the loop) stopped?
2. Can you use the exitActionIteration , ExitAction and exitTest one after the other?
3. What are the objects and parameters of ExitActionIteration statement?
4. is ExitActionIteration is an object or statement?

Discussion

The purpose of this statement is also same as ExitAction but difference lies in the level of being called upon. ExitAction is to exit the action unlike ExitActionIteration which skips the iteration of the current action. Suppose you have created the test with several actions. Each action needs to be iterated based on some condition. And in case of some unexpected errors, cases you might want to exit particular or specific iteration on the action. Now existing the action and returning a status of the current action can be done via this ExitActionIteration Statement.

Hence, officially the main purpose of the ExitActionIteration statement is to exit the current iteration of the action. The pass or fail status of the action iteration remains as it was in the step prior to the ExitActionIteration statement.

Points to note here:

1. The ExitActionIteration statement and its return value are displayed in the Run Results.
2. The return value in the ExitActionIteration parameter must be a constant value either int or string.
3. The return value can be stored in the output and hence to return a value to the calling action or test, use an output parameter.

Syntax

ExitActionIteration[(RetVal)]

Let’s see the parameters and their usage description for this statement:

Example

The following example uses the ExitActionIteration function to stop running the current action iteration when the value in the current row of the Login column in the action’s data sheet is “NewUser”.

'ExitActionIteration example

CurrentUser = DataTable("Users", dtLocalSheet)

If CurrentUser = "NewUser" Then

 ExitActionIteration("Exiting for NewUser")

End IF

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