Advanced UFT 12 for Test Engineers Cookbook

Deleting a key from the Windows^® system registry

Automated tests rarely delete registry keys and values. However, in some cases (such as in the case described in the previous recipe), deleting the custom key would be a reasonable cleaning procedure. In this recipe, we will see how to do it.

Getting ready

From the File menu, navigate to New | Test, or use the Ctrl + N shortcut. You can use the same test as in the previous recipe.

How to do it...

The syntax to delete the value of a registry key is as follows:

object.RegDelete sKeyPath

Here, object is an instance of the Wscript.Shell class and sKeyPath a valid key.

For example, to delete the new custom string (REG_SZ) type key we created in the previous recipe, use the following code snippet:

Dim oWshShell, ...