Hp Quick Test Professional

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HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)

HP QuickTest Professional software is an advanced, automated testing software for building functional and regression test suites. It captures, verifies and replays user interactions automatically and helps testers quickly identify and report on application effects, while providing advanced functionality for tester collaboration.

HP QuickTest Professional 9.2 is the latest version.

Key Features

Mercury Screen Recorder - Captures your entire run session in a movie clip or capture only the segments with errors, and then view your movie from the Test Results window.

Dynamic Management of Object Repositories- Programmatically manage an action's shared object repository collection during the test run.

Enhanced Object Spy Functionality - When you hover over objects in your application using the pointing hand, you can view their properties, methods, and object hierarchy in the Object Spy. As you hover over each object, it is highlighted in the application.

Keyword View: Lets you easily build and maintain tests without writing VBScripts.

Auto-Documentation: Provides improved test clarity and the ability to view test steps in plain English.

Step Generator: Allows you to quickly insert custom-built functions into your tests.

Mercury Business Process Testing: Enhanced integration with BPT --Business Components, Scripted Components, and Application Areas.

Enhanced Expert View: Provides greater efficiency when generalizing test components.

Action Parameters: Allows you to generalize testing actions for greater reusability.

Data Parameters: You can now specify test or action parameters to pass values into and from your test, and between actions in your test.

Open XML Report Format for Test Results: Test results are now stored in an open XML format, enabling you to easily customize the reports according to your own requirements, and to integrate the test result information with other applications.

Unicode Support: Lets you test global deployments of your enterprise applications.

Function Definition Generator: You can use the new Function Definition Generator to generate definitions for user-defined functions, add header information to them, and register functions to a test object

Technologies Supported

Default Support:

Standard Windows applications

Web objects / Applications

ActiveX controls

Visual Basic applications

Supported Add-ins :

Java Add-in 9.1

.NET Add-in 9.2

Oracle Add-in 8.2

PeopleSoft Add-in 8.2*

Add-in 8.2 for SAP Solutions

Siebel Add-in 8.0*

Stingray Add-in 8.2

Terminal Emulator Add-in 8.0*

VisualAge Smalltalk Add-in 8.2

Web Services Add-in 9.2

*PeopleSoft Add-in 8.2, Siebel Add-in 8.0, and

Terminal Emulator Add-in 8.0 all require an

Add-in Upgrade patch before you can use

them with QuickTest Professional 9.2. You can

install Add-in Upgrade patches by running the

relevant patch executable from the

<QuickTest Professional>AddinsUpgrade folder.

Supported Environments and Programs

QuickTest Professional supports creating, recording, and running tests or components

using the environments and programs described below:

Virtualization Technologies

VMware workstation 5.5

Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0

Standard Windows Applications

QuickTest Professional supports testing on applications based on Win32 API and MFC.

QuickTest Professional does not support testing on 64-bit applications.

Visual Basic Applications

QuickTest Professional supports testing on Visual Basic 6.0 applications.

Note: Visual Basic .NET applications are supported by the QuickTest Professional .NET Add-in.

Browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, 6.0 Service Pack 1

Netscape Browser 8.1.2

Mozilla Firefox 2.0, 1.5

QTP involves 3 main phases : Creating Test Scripts Running Test Scripts Analyzing Test Results

Create a test script by recording a manual test scenario on the

AUT (Application Under Test) using QTP. QTP graphically displays

each step users perform in the form of a collapsible, icon based

tree view in QTP’s Keyword View.

Creation / Enhancement of a test script can be done using the

Expert view where users can add Adding logic and conditional

statements, Parameterization and Inserting checkpoints

Once the test scripts are recorded / created, next step is to

execute them. While running (executing) the tests QTP connects

to the web site or AUT and performs each operation in the test as

performed manually while recording / creating test scripts. If QC

is (Quality Center is HP’s software test management tool.) being

used then we can execute the Test Scripts from there.

Examine the QTP test results to pinpoint defects in the

application. The QTP test results give a detailed insight into

every action performed by QTP. The defects can be reported to

a Bug Tracking Tool or to the QC database.

QTP Main Window

Object Repository

Object Repository is a file where Test objects can be stored. There are two types of object repositories—a shared object repository and a local object repository.

Local Object Repository stores objects in a file that is associated with one specific action, so that only that action can access the stored objects.

Shared Object Repository stores test objects in a file that can be accessed by multiple tests (in read-only mode).

Networker GUI Automation uses Shared Object Repository . In Networker GUI Automation we are using Quality Center (QC) which is integrated with QTP. These shared object repositories are stored in Quality Center. To Associate these Object repositories, QuickTest Professional should be Connected to Quality Center.

Object Identification

QTP identifies a test object using different types of properties and identification methods :

Mandatory Properties – QuickTest has a predefined set of properties that it gets for each test object.

Assistive Properties – are properties that QuickTest gets only i f mandatory properties are not sufficient to create a unique description of a test object.

Ordinal Identifier – If the combination of all defined mandatory and assistive properties is not sufficient to create a unique test object description, QuickTest also learns the value for the selected ordinal identifier.

Smart Identification – If QTP cannot find any object that matches the description, or if it finds more than one object that matches, QuickTest uses the Smart Identification mechanism (if enabled) to identify the object. In many cases, a Smart Identification definition can help QuickTest identify an object, if it is present, even when the test object description fails due to changes in one or more property values.

Object Spy

The Object Spy pointing hand mechanism enables viewing the supported properties and methods of any object in an open application. As you move the pointing hand over the objects in the application, their details are displayed in the Object Spy. These details may include the test object's hierarchy tree, its properties and values, and the methods associated with the object. For methods, the syntax is also displayed. In most environments, you can choose to view the test object properties and methods or the run-time (native) properties and methods.

Checkpoints

Checkpoint is a verification point that compares a current value for a specified property with the expected value for that property. This enables you to identify whether your Web site or application is functioning correctly.

Types of Checkpoints

Standard Checkpoint checks the property value of an object in your application or Web page.

Image Checkpoint checks the value of an image in your application or Web page.

Bitmap Checkpoint checks an area of your Web page or application as a bitmap.

Table Checkpoint checks information within a table.

Text Checkpoint checks that a text string is displayed in the appropriate place on a Web page or application.

Text Area Checkpoint checks that a text string is displayed within a defined area in a Windows application, according to specified criteria.

Accessibility Checkpoint identifies areas of your Web site that may not conform to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.