The 4Test Language

4Test is an object-oriented fourth-generation language (4GL) designed specifically with the needs of the QA professional in mind. The powerful features of 4Test are organized into the following three basic kinds of functionality:

• A robust library of object-oriented classes and methods that specify how a test case can interact with the GUI objects of an application.
• A set of statements, operators, and data types that you use to pass structure and logic to a recorded test case.
• A library of built-in functions for performing common support tasks.

Before you begin creating and running test scripts, you create a repository of information about your application to be used by Silk Test Classic. This repository includes descriptions of the GUI objects that comprise your application. Based on the properties and methods Silk Test Classic associates with these objects, Silk Test Classic recognizes the actions performed on these objects and records them in your test script using the 4Test language.