Saturday, April 16, 2011

What is QTP and what QTP can do


What is QTP
QuickTest Professional (QTP) is an automated functional Graphical User Interface (GUI) testing tool created by the HP subsidiary Mercury Interactive that allows the automation of user actions on a web or desktop computer application
QTP (i-e Quick Test Professional) is a Software Test Automation Tool.
QTP is widely/most popularly used as Functional/Regression Test automation tool. It was initially developed by Mercury Interactive and then acquired by HP. It is really user friendly tool. Anyone can easily start using it, at the same time it can be used extensively by the experts to utilize many features of QTP.
Some add-ins (e.g ActiveX, VisualBasic,Web) are built-in with QTP, and some other add-ins (e.g Java, .net, TE (termial emulator))are external add-ins. External add-in means we need to install them separately once after installing QTP.
QTP will support Keyword Driven and Data Driven testing. We can create our own test automation framework (Hybrid framework) also based on our own requirements for test automation.
The user friendly IDE which has Keyword view, Expert view, Datatable, Active screen, object repository editor/manager,step generator, function generator,object highlight feature, intellisense, recovery scenario manager, update run feature and simple Test/Action handling features makes the Script developer/execution work easy. The IDE is integrated with useful tools such as ObjectSpy. The IDE has standard development features such as Debug

What are the features and benefits of Quick Test Pro(QTP)?
1. Key word driven testing
2. Suitable for both client server and web based application
3. VB script as the script language
4. Better error handling mechanism
5. Excellent data driven testing features


















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