Often you want to be able to parameterize your Rapise tests to have a common set of test functions that can use different combinations of test data. You can use a MS-Excel spreadsheet to store the test data and use Rapise to read out the matching values. This articles provides a sample for doing this.
This article is obsolete. For modern ways of making data-driven tests please refer to Data-Driven Testing documentation topic.
Sometimes when you are running Rapise tests you need to run direct database queries to prepare the data in the test application, or you need to make queries against the database to verify that some user interactions left the data in a specific state.
The sample script below illustrates how you can call database queries directly from the Rapise scripting editor: