Advanced UFT 12 for Test Engineers Cookbook

Using a global dictionary for fast shared code access

As we have shown in the recipe Using a global dictionary for fast shared data access, it is possible to use a dictionary to store values of different types during runtime, and share them during the test flow with other actions at any level. We mentioned that a dictionary has the capacity to store any type of value, including objects. We further indicated that this opens the possibility to have nested dictionaries (albeit out of the scope of the current chapter).

In a similar fashion, it is possible to load pieces of code globally and hence grant shared access to all actions. In order to achieve this, we will recur to a well-known code design pattern, the command wrapper.

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