Application Area Overview

An application area provides all settings and resources required to automate content. These include:

The automation engineer can change the behavior of these objects in the application using the RegisterUserFunc utility statement in . For details, see the Object Model Reference.

Note: The automation engineer can change the behavior of these objects in the application using the RegisterUserFunc utility statement in UFT. For details, see the Unified Functional Testing Object Model Reference.
User-defined operations (keyword GUIs), contained in function libraries.
Special operations to recover from errors and unexpected events, contained in recovery scenarios.

You can create multiple application areas, each representing a different area or aspect in your application. It is important that you select the correct application area on which to base your business component. Each application area should have a detailed description to help you to make the correct choice.

You can create basic application areas based on a default template in the ALM Test Resources module. (For details, see the Micro Focus Application Lifecycle Management User Guide: How to Use Test Resources.) However, most application area functionality is provided by the subject matter expert in UFT.

When you create a business component and choose an associated application area, the settings and resources that are defined in the current application area are embedded in the component. Therefore, any changes made to the application area in UFT at a later time are applied directly to the component.

The shared object repository, function libraries, and scenario files that comprise an application area are links to the actual repository and files stored in ALM. Changes to the stored repository and files affect all the components that reference them, and it is not necessary to update the application area for such changes.

You cannot delete an application area that is associated with a business component.

BPT Resources Folder

The business component resources for the project are created automatically in the Test Resources module by the Unified Functional Testing Add-in for Business Process Testing, available from the Application Lifecycle Management Add-ins page (Help > Add-ins).

The resources are stored in the BPT Resources folder. The automatic creation occurs:

The first time you click Business Components module > Automation tab in a new project
When you create a UFT automated component for the first time
When UFT connects to ALM for the first time

For business process tests or flows to perform properly, the BPT Resources folder and its subfolders should not be renamed or deleted.

Note: In previous versions of Quality Center, the BPT Resources folder was created in the Test Plan module. When upgrading from Quality Center version 9.2, a BPT Resources folder that exists in the Test Plan module must be moved to the Test Resources module using the QuickTest Asset Upgrade Tool for Quality Center.

The BPT Resources folder contains all the UFT resources available for business components in the project, and includes the following subfolders.

Folder	Resource Description
Application Areas	Provides all of the settings and resources required to create the automated content for a particular application or part of an application. The application area typically contains all the items contained in the folders listed below.
Function Libraries	Contains all the function libraries available for business components in the UFT project. Function libraries provide customized operations (keyword GUIs) for components (VBScript functions, subroutines, and so on). The Libraries folder contains the default function library containing operations that can be used when creating steps. The automation engineer can store additional function libraries in this folder.
Object Repositories	Contains all the shared object repository files available for components in the UFT project. Object repository files define the test objects that can be used in the component steps.
Recovery Scenarios	Contains all the recovery scenario files available for components in the UFT project. Recovery scenarios define special operations to recover from errors and unexpected events during the component run. By default, the Recovery Scenarios folder contains the DefaultWeb.qrs file, which is a recovery scenario file that can be used in the Web environment.