Test Automation Ecstasy

Today, I am going to discuss about framework due to request of my friend Anand. Lot of QTP guys know the information on How to Create Test, How to identify Complex objects, How to generate results and etc. But still somebody have doubts like What is Framework? Why we need Framework? What's the purpose of it? How to design framework? Is that required lot of coding knowledge?, etc. Let's consider a case. We have 100 test scenarios to automate. Each test scenario have around 100 test cases. Here you will do the following.... Design: 1. Create Test Scripts for each case by creating separate actions. 2. Each test case script i.e. each action will have associated resources. - Object Repository, Function Library and Recovery Scenario files. Execution: 1. You will have own driver script. 2. This will call each action one by one. Maintenance: 1. If any UI changes happened, you need to find the particular OR file to update the same. 2. You need to maintain lot of OR fi...