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Automating Automation: HP QC 10, HP QTP 10 and Automation Framework

2013-04-26T20:39:00.002-07:00

Automating Automation book looks at HP Quality Center deployment, customization and also its integration with HP QTP. It includes in-depth discussion on the framework and the concrete examples will help both the beginners and experts to design a robust and reliable framework. Saurabh Chandra has explained the underlying principles with widely used

Book Review QTP Descriptive Programming Unplugged

2012-11-08T16:15:00.001-08:00

QTP Descriptive Programming Unplugged book review should begin with the author names - Anshoo Arora and Tarun Lalwani. Anshoo Arora works as a Test Architect and his favourite tool is HP QTP. Tarun Lalwani is a Test Automation Architect and the author of two best books on QTP: QTP Descriptive Programming Unplugged and And I thought I knew QTP. Both

QTP tutorial for beginners

2011-12-12T15:18:00.000-08:00

I want to provide the advice for beginners who want to learn QTP test automation tool. I will try to get you on the road to becoming HP QTP guru, starting with the basics and covering all of the core concepts you need to become vigorous in QuickTest Professional. I am aiming HP QTP tutorial at complete beginner who desires to learn test automation from the very beginning, software professional

QTP phone interview questions

2011-12-11T16:38:00.001-08:00

QA Manager conducts phone interviews during a process of identifying and recruiting talented Test Automation Engineer. Properly organized telephone interview will help eliminate inexperienced candidates who had an amazing QA Resume, but used QTP only for for recording scripts and playback. Effective Test Manager would develop a set of formal phone QA/QTP interview questions and successfully

Book Review And I thought I knew QTP

2011-11-26T22:20:00.001-08:00

And I thought I knew QTP! book review should start from mentioned the author name - Tarun Lalwani. He is the leading expert in QuickTest Professional automation test tool and the author of author of well-known book QuickTest Professional Unplugged. I haven’t read anything like this book before, because apparently And I thought I knew QTP! book is a first ever technical sci-fi novel which

QTP jobs

2011-03-11T12:30:00.000-08:00

There are hundreds of QTP jobs listed on the internet everyday. QA Tester will find great number of positions offering amazing salaries for testers, outstanding benefits, great growth potentials and training by searching on Craigslist.com “QTP Tester” jobs, looking on Linkedin.com for “QTP Engineer” jobs. As expected, there is plenty of competition for these QTP jobs in the testing field. So, how

Testing Android with QTP

2010-11-29T21:19:00.000-08:00

There are QTP extensions allowing to automate mobile testing on Android and mobile applications. These plugins extend HP QTP 11, integrate into existing testing environment and can be used to build functional and regression test suites for Android testing on emulators and real devices. SeeTest developed by Experitest is the software automation testing tool that allows to define test cases,

HP QTP 11 evaluation version

2010-10-02T18:42:00.000-07:00

HP QTP 11 evaluation version is finally available for download for registered user as a part of HP Functional Testing 11. The only requirement for QTP 11 trial version download is the registration on HP software download center web site. The evaluation version is good for 30 days. HP Functional Testing 11 provides functional and regression test automation for every major software application and

HP QTP interview question 35: Using HP QTP on locked system or with Microsoft Remote Desktop connection

2010-03-12T10:50:00.000-08:00

There is a problem with running HP QTP on a locked system or using Microsoft Remote Desktop connection. As soon as QA Tester locks monitor or minimized RDC window HP QTP cannot control anymore the mouse and keyboard and test cases would fail. It seems that most obvious solution is to never lock machine or minimize the desktop session, but what if you need to do other work on machine where Remote

QTP Interview question 34: Explain the difference between VBScript function and VBScript subroutine?

2009-11-13T22:49:00.000-08:00

Advanced QTP interview questions may examine not only various aspects of QA tester's hands-on experience with HP QTP, but how deep the interviewee knows VBScript - HP Quick Test Professional scripting language. The candidate for QTP QA tester position should be familiar with VBScript variables and arrays, able to explain the difference between VBScript function and VBScript subroutine and for

QTP Interview Question 33: Do you know any error messages of QTP license server?

2009-08-13T14:35:00.000-07:00

Computers running QuickTest Pro using a concurrent license must always be able to access the QTP concurrent license server. If your HP QTP instance is not able to start and displays "Cannot talk to the license manager. "LocalHost" server not running", it means that your QuickTest Pro concurrent license server is down. Launch services.msc from the Run option on the Start Menu. Locate the Sentinel

Borland is no more

2009-07-28T22:43:00.000-07:00

The acquisition of the famous Borland by Micro Focus is complete. By acquiring Borland and test automation tools like SilkTest 2009, Micro Focus is looking to take on Hewlett Packard, who is the leading provider of application testing tools with its HP Quality Center based on technology it acquired from Mercury Interactive a few years ago.

HP QTP 10.0 Evaluation

2009-03-28T00:53:00.000-07:00

Recently Hewlett Packard simplified the automation of functional and regression testing with release of HP QuickTest Professional 10 functional test automation tool. Evaluation version of HP QTP 10 now available for free download and training. HP QuickTest Pro 10 works on Windows, VMware and Virtual PC, supports Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3 and offers additional add-ins for Java, .Net, Oracle,

QTP Interview Question 32: How to use HP QTP 10 in agile testing?

2009-02-17T18:37:00.000-08:00

I suppose there is no doubt that certain agile manifesto principles, such as “welcome changing requirements, even late in development” or “deliver working software frequently, from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, with a preference to the shorter timescale” would make smart QTP test automation engineer wince. Does it mean Quick Test Pro that automated script for complicated business

HP QTP Interview Question 31: Have you heard about HP QTP 10.0 ?

2009-01-13T14:22:00.000-08:00

While answering on the interview question about the latest version of HP QTP, it would be worth to mention about the next version HP QuickTest Professional 10.0 also known as Atlantis. As I heard on HP Software Universe 2008, HP QTP 10.0 download will be available in the first quarter 2009. There are several new features of HP QTP 10.00 :Enhanced HP QuickTest Pro IDE with features like TODO and

HP QTP Interview Question 30: How to handle dynamic links with HP QTP?

2008-11-18T14:19:00.000-08:00

There are several ways to handle dynamic links. QA Engineer could create appropriate HP QTP regular expression to match dynamic link. QA Engineer could try to find the dynamic link during application under test runtime using HP QTP descriptive programming by performing action on object which is not in HP QTP object repository

HP QTP Interview Question 29: Where can I find HP QTP tutorial?

2008-09-26T23:23:00.000-07:00

Actually it is not exactly HP QuickTest Professional interview question, but more associated with HP FAQ. Anyway as I understood, HP policy on HP QTP tutorial is more or less: “take expensive QTP training class if you have any questions”. If you desperately need HP QTP tutorial, make an effort with Google search. Google return plenty of valuable outcomes for QTP tutorial search and if you are

HP QTP Interview Question 28: What is FSO in QuickTest Professional?

2008-09-15T21:29:00.000-07:00

The FileSystemObject (FSO) object model of QTP allows Test Engineer to process drives, folders, and files while scripting tests cases with VBScript. Experienced test automation engineers can easily read, write, create content, and even delete files and folders using the FileSystemObject and the objects that are associated with it.

HP QTP Interview Question 27: Does HP QTP support Chrome browser?

2008-09-02T09:13:00.000-07:00

Today Google officially released a test version of its Internet browser called Chrome. It is definitely exceptionally early to expect that Hewlett-Packard would provide support for Chrome browsers in HP QTP in the nearest future, even in expected soon HP QTP 10 release. Keep in mind that Internet Explorer browser is still commands more than 65 percent of the world browser market. In mean time,

HP QTP Interview Question 26: How to return the number of links in a web page?

2008-08-14T21:58:00.000-07:00

To count the number of links in a web page, Quality Assurance Engineer could use ChildObjects to get the link collection, then retrieve the properties for example number of links or any other objects on page. Dim oDesc, oAllLinks, iNumberOfLinksset oDesc = Description.Create() oDesc("micclass").Value = "Link" Set oAllLinks = Browser("creationtime:=0").Page("micclass:=Page").ChildObjects(oDesc)

HP QTP Interview Question 25: How to view QTP test results in HTML format?

2008-07-28T11:41:00.000-07:00

In case Software Quality Assurance Engineer would like to share HP QTP test result with other team members or management, it would be better to provide this valuable information in more meaningful results then default XML format. The faster way to achieve this goal would be to edit Windows Registry in the following way:Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Mercury Interactive->QuickTest

HP QTP Interview Question 24: Winrunner vs QTP comparison?

2008-07-09T10:20:00.000-07:00

This interview question was very popular not long ago among interviewers and in many cases looked like: explain the major differences between WinRunner and QTP, compare WinRunner and QTP. If you expect I would provide now detailed comparison of Winrunner and HP QTP or you have to compare these automation tools by technologies, supported environments and so on during your interview for Quality

HP QTP Interview Question 23: Pop up windows is not being recognized?

2008-07-01T16:01:00.000-07:00

The following elucidation would help with proper identification of pop up windows with of HP QTP 9.5. In such cases the parent object does not contain a "visible" property enabled by default and it leads to the circumstances that while HP QTP is not able to identify pop-up window.Recognize the parent object class;Navigate to Tools > Object identification;Choose Environment;Choose Test Object

HP QTP Interview Question 22: How would you select test case for automation?

2008-06-10T11:40:00.000-07:00

The test cases that should be automated with HP QTP 9.5 first are the ones that are highly repetitive and long, for example - test case has to be executed for every build, test case uses different data for the same set of actions and test case has to be executed for different browser platforms. As experience test automation engineer you have to keep in mind stability of application and tend to

HP QTP Interview Question 21: Explain the difference between GetROProperty and GetTOProperty?

2008-05-07T11:16:00.000-07:00

The short explanation would be GetTOProperty is the property value at record time GetROProperty is the property value at run time, but as we all know during interview it would be wise to provide more details description on any interview question and preferably with example. Usually QA engineer may use GetTOProperty in HP QTP 9.5 to test object properties. It means test properties that HP QTP 9.5