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Can i call a data row from the Common sheet without passing a test id to it like we run a QTP script passing data's in all rows in a iterative manner?

Hi Ram,

Axe has a very simple test model where each test is sub-divided into a number of reusable modules that we call subtests. Each test case then defines a sequence of subtests to call. Typically you would have one subtest per screen for your application. If you are looking for a QTP analogy then I guess you could say a subtest is similar to a QTP action. Typically test data is defined in the subtest tables and by creating multiple rows in the subtest you can rapidly build up comprehensive test coverage. However Axe is a very versatile platform and can support importing data from a variety of different data sources both at build time and run time. For example, data can be imported from other Excel spreadsheets, database queries and web services. The OdinPortal and HarnessDemo sample test projects provided with Axe show some of these techniques.

Also bear in mind that fundamentally Axe is a code-generation platform for testing. Tests are defined in simple Excel spreadsheets and Axe generates the automation code (and documentation) for whatever tool and language being used. This is highly configurable and means that automation engineers can customise Axe to do pretty much whatever they want.

Sam