What are Ordinal Identifiers in QTP?

What are Ordinal Identifiers in QTP?

If QTP feels that its unable to uniquely identify an object on the basis of Mandatory and Assitive properties then it looks for Ordinal Identifiers.

        # Generally we should not encourage the Ordinal Identifier but when the application is Stable then we may use it.

        # Once the application is stable then only we go for Automation, till such time we do only manual testing.

There are three types of ordinal identifiers that QuickTest can use to identify an object:

1.    Index
2.    LOcation
3.    Creation Time

1. "Index" Indicates the order in which the object appears in the application code relative to other objects with an otherwise identical description.

2. "Location" Indicates the order in which the object appears within the parent window frame/dialog box relative to other objects with an otherwise identical description.

3. "CreationTime" (Browser object only) Indicates the order in which the browser was opened relative to other open browsers with an otherwise identical description