Winrunner - Expert Questions

Earlier I had prepared set of questions to ask for WinRunner interview. I have given few of them below:

Expert Questions - WinRunner

1. Scope of public, static, extern, auto variables.


2. Differnce between Compiled Module and Main script


3. What's the purpose of the wrun.ini file?


4. What is the difference between "set_window" and "win_activate"?


5. What is a checkpoint and what are different types of checkpoints?


6. What are the virtual objects and how do you learn them?


7. How can you merge GUI maps & tell me the possible ways?


8. What is meant by GUI mapping? What is the concept behind that?


9. What are the difference between calling a script and compiled module?


10. What is the difference between loading a script and calling a script?


11. Why do we go for eval to call a script?


12. What is the difference between treturn, texit, return?


13. What is the usage of tl_step?


14. Tell about Match statement in WinRunner?


15. What is function generator? How to use this in Winrunner?


16. What is the difference between GUI_close_all and GUI_unload_all() ?


17. Tell me about substr, index, split?


18. What is synchronization point and tell me the usage of that?


19. What is the difference between writing a function and writing a script?


20. How do you handle unexpected events and errors?