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5. Defining States
To define States for a Variable, highlight the Variable and select the S button. This will
cause the State Description property sheet to appear. You can also do this by
highlighting a Variable and doing a right-click with the mouse.
Defining States
In this example we are adding a State to the Customer Variable called “Corporate”. Its
description is “Corporate customer”. This will be appended to the Variable Description
in the generated test scripts to create the phrase “The customer is a Corporate customer”.
How readable your test scripts are is dependent on how you craft these descriptions. Of
course a big advantage of RBT in general is that it has a data base of these descriptions so
you enter them only once and all your generated test scripts read absolutely consistent.
There is no limit to the length of the State Name or State Description.
You do want to take care in naming the Variables and States since these will show up in
some of the reports – e.g. the Pairs Report. These reports will make more sense if the
names are clear.
Once you have entered the Variable and State information, you might want to change it.
To edit the data, select the Variable or State whose description you want to change. Its
properties will appear in the information window. You then double click on the item you
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