Advanced UFT 12 for Test Engineers Cookbook

Using global variables (Environment)

The Environment object can be best described as a kind of Dictionary that holds pairs of keys and values. Unlike the native Dictionary, it has extended capacities such as the following:

• UFT features that contain built-in variables, which can return useful values during runtime, such as ActionName, ActionIteration, TestName, TestIteration, TestDir, and OS
• Defining test internal variables (that is, persistent) or external variables (see the following point)
• Loading a set of variables from an external XML file, preset, or dynamically used during runtime
• Automation Object Model (AOM) support, which enables the addition of internal variables dynamically before launching a test's run session
• The scope of the object is ...