During the Web Extensibility talk at HP Software Universe, somebody asked me to post the code for childNodeByID. This is a javascript function that is useful in Web Extensibility projects. It lets you find the child of a DOM object that has a specific id attribute.

At the time, I said this function was only a few lines long. I was wrong. Somebody with more javascript experience could probably golf this down to a few lines, but my version is pretty long.
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Despite persistent the rumors to the contrary, you really can execute Javascript from QTP, and not just using Web Extensibility. Here is a simple function that will run some javascript in IE and return the result.

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I've now had a few days with Quicktest Pro 9.5, and most of that time has been spent with the new Web Extensibility feature. This feature has huge potential. I look forward to seeing how it is accepted by QTP programmers.

The basic idea is that you can create your own QTP add-in. When your add-in is loaded, Quicktest will recognize objects you defined in your add-in and make your custom methods available for them.

After I went through the tutorial in the QuickTest 9.5 documentation, I jumped into creating a Web add-in for a simple DIV in the product I am testing. I called the extension auLogin and the object auLoginForm. The first method I added was SubmitLogin. All it does is click the Login button. This seemed to be an unambitious task, but it proved more difficult than I counted on because I didn't learn as much as I thought through the tutorial. It is also something much easier done with the single line Browser().Link("html id:=Submit1_a").click, but this exercise is about learning, not being efficient.
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