Winrunner - Data Driven Test

Data-Driven Tests
When you test your application, you may want to check how it performs the same operations on different sets of data. By replacing the fixed values in your test with values stored in a data table (an external file), you can generate multiple test scenarios using the same test.

For example, suppose your application analyzes your company’s allocation of funds. You may want to check how your application responds to several separate sets of budget data. Instead of creating and running several different tests with different sets of data, you can create a data-driven test. When you run your test, WinRunner reads a different set of data from the data table for each iteration of the test.

You can create a data table by inserting variable values in a table or by importing data from an external file.