HP QTP Utility Statements : LoadFunctionLibrary Statement

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This discussion will help you prepare well if you are going for the interview and can help you if you need the function to be used in your project test suite.

 

LoadFunctionLibrary Statement

Abstract

The LoadFunctionLibrary statement is used to load the specified function library..

The statement in itself falls under the category of utility statements and not 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 call external functions in the test?
2. Can you use both LoadFunctionLibrary and ExecuteFile statements one after the other?
3. What are the objects and parameters of LoadFunctionLibrary statement?
4. Is LoadFunctionLibrary is an object or statement?

 

Discussion

Whenever you are working in any framework you might come across utilizing external functions in your test. These functions depending on your test cases can be right at point of execution where required as well as with a global scope. To facilitate such functions to be called and loaded in test scripts we use this statement.

You can specify one or more absolute file system paths, relative paths, or HP Quality Center (HP QC) folder paths for both tests and business components.

 

Points to note here:

1. For loading more than one function file, please use a comma delimiter.
2. The debugging is allowed throughout the file, once functions are loaded.

 

Syntax

LoadFunctionLibrary(Path)

 

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

Argument	Type	Description
Path	String	The complete file path (or paths) of the function library to load.

 

Return Value

Variant.

 

Example 1

To just load a single function file, use the statement as

'example1

LoadFunctionLibrary myfunctionlib.vbs

 

Example 2

Below example shows loading multiple function libraries and run the functions.

'load multiple function files.

Dim strDefaultLibPath 
Const strDefaultLibPath = "[QualityCenter\Resources] Resources\UFT Resources\Default\" 

'Load the relevant function libraries for the current environment's language 

LoadFunctionLibrary strDefaultLibPath + "MyCustomFunctins1.qfl", strDefaultLibPath + "MyCustomFunctins2.qfl" 

'now call your methods contained within the custom function file
mymethod1 Browser("name").Page("some page").WebEdit("password")

 

 

This brings us to the end of our discussion on “HP QTP Utility Statements : LoadFunctionLibrary Statement”.

 

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Other Utility Statements:
UNREGISTERUSERFUNC	REGISTERUSERFUNC
SETLASTERROR	GETLASTERROR
INVOKEAPPLICATION	EXITTEST
EXITACTION	EXITACTIONITERATION
DESCRIBERESULT	EXECUTEFILE
EXITCOMPONENT	EXITCOMPONENTITERATION
LOADANDRUNACTION	PRINT
WAIT	EXITTESTITERATION
LOADFUNCTIONLIBRARY	CALLSERVICETEST
OBSOLETE	MANUALSTEP
RUNACTION

And if you like to read more on UFT or QTP Technical Interview Questions please follow below links: 

UFT Technical Interview Questions – Set 1

UFT Technical Interview Questions – Set 2

How to Download Resource From QC\ALM?

How to Upload Resource To QC\ALM?

 

Or if you prefer General Interview Questions please follow below links:

UFT General Interview Questions – Part 1

UFT General Interview Questions – Part 2

 

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