Object Repoistory Manager

The Object Repository Manager enables you to manage all of the shared object repositories used in your organization from a single, central location, including adding and defining objects, modifying objects and their descriptions, parameterizing repositories to make them more generic, maintaining and organizing repositories, merging repositories, and importing and exporting repositories in XML format.

Each object repository contains the information that enables QuickTest to identify the objects in your application. QuickTest enables you to maintain the reusability of your tests by storing all the information regarding your test objects in a shared object repository. When objects in your application change, the Object Repository Manager provides a single, central location in which you can update test object information for multiple tests.

If an object with the same name and description is located in both the local object repository and in a shared object repository that is associated with the same action, the action uses the local object definition. If an object with the same name and description is located in more than one shared object repository, and these shared object repositories are all associated with the same action, QuickTest uses the object definition from the first occurrence of the object, according to the order in which the shared object repositories are associated with the action.

You can use the same shared object repository with multiple actions. You can also use multiple object repositories with each action. Therefore, when the property values of objects in your application change, you should modify the corresponding test object property values in the corresponding object repository so that you can continue to use your existing tests. You can modify objects in a shared object repository using the Object Repository Manager. You can modify objects stored in a local object repository using the Object Repository window.