This tutorial interprets the Keyword View and compares the Expert & Keyword View
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The Keyword View is comprised of a table-like view where
Each step is a separate row in the table and
Each column represents different parts of the steps.
Item Column contains the item on which you want to perform the step. This column uses icons displays the hierarchy of the GUI object on which operation is performed
Operation Column contains the operation to be performed on the item.
Value Column contains the argument values for the selected operation,
QTP automatically documents each step for easy understanding in the Documentation Column
These 4 columns are default but you can also use assignment & comment columns in Keyword View
That’s all to the Keyword View
Lets Compare the Keyword and Expert View using Step no 2 from our script. You will observe that the same object hierarchy is displayed in both Expert & Keyword Views and they map to the same operation and argument value.
Essentially , Keyword & Expert view contain the same data but arranged in different format.
In fact you can perform all operations like create , modifying a step . using the Keyword View but to gain mastery over the tool we will restrict ourselves to the Expert View
