HP Quick Test Professional (QTP) is a tool for functional and regression testing that supports testing of .NET, Java, web, and other applications. It uses VBScript for scripting and supports recording and playback of tests in Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome. While powerful, it has some limitations like only running on Windows and not supporting all browsers. The main components of a QTP test include actions, libraries, object repositories, checkpoints, and integration with HP Quality Center for requirements and defect tracking. QTP supports recording, descriptive programming, debugging, data-driven testing, and recovery scenarios to make tests more robust.

1. HP Quick Test Professional
Vitaliy Ganzha, 2012

2. What is HP QTP?
 Tool for functional and regression testing
 Supported environments: .NET, Java, Visual Basic,
Web, Web-services, SAP, Oracle apps, Delphi*,
Flash*
 Browser support: Internet Explorer and Firefox (from
QTP 11, with add-in) record and playback, Chrome –
playback (with add-in)
 Uses VBScript as scripting language
 Can be integrated with HP Quality Center

3. Drawbacks
 VBScript as scripting language
 Runs on MS Windows only
 Do not support some browsers (Opera,
Safari)
 High licensing costs

4. Main Window

5. QTP Parts
 Test – collection of actions (external and internal). Action – is
the script. Can be presented in Expert or in Keyword views
 Function libraries (VBscript)
 Object recognition components: add-ins.
 Object repository, descriptive programming
 Data tables
 Active screen
 Checkpoints
 Debugger

6. QTP Parts (Slide 2)
 Reporting
 QC integration
 Recording (normal, low-level, analog)
 Synchronization
 Data sharing
 Access to internal objects (.Object)
 Recovery scenarios

7. QTP Test
 QTP test is the collection of:
– Actions
– Associated libraries
– Object repositories
 Has it’s own settings (user-defined, iterations
count etc.)
 Can have input and output parameters

8. Actions
 Actions help divide your test into logical units, such as the main
sections of a Web site, or specific activities that you perform in
your application.
 Actions is the scripts with associated object repositories
 Actions can be:
– Reusable
– Non-reusable
– External
– Nested action
 Actions can have in and put parameters

9. Associated libraries
 Associated libraries used to split code into
external files
 Written with VBS (but can use QTP’s objects
such as Reporter, Object Repository)
 Associated to test
 Can be debugged

10. Add-ins
 QTP uses add-ins to be able to
work with test environment
 There are several add-ins
shipped with QTP: .Net, Java,
Web, Web Services etc.
 Some add-ins can be supplied
by third-party company (Flash
add-in for example)

11. How QTP Recognize objects
 It depends on Environment (Java, .NET or Web)
 For every object class, QTP has a default set of
properties that it always learns:
1. Mandatory
2. Assistive
3. Ordinal identifier
 Smart identification
 User can parameterize identification properties

12. Object Repository
 Storage for identification properties
 Objects organized into hierarchies
 Repository can be local or shared
 Object Repository Manager allows to edit
external repositories
 Highlight object
 User still need to define properties manually

13. Object Spy
 Use this tool to view
object’s properties and
methods
 Allow to see native
properties and methods
 Quick check if
environment can be
recognized

14. Alternatives to Object Spy
 Firebug (Mozilla Firefox) for Web
 Developers Tools (IE, v>=8) for Web
 Spy++, WinSpy++, Winspector for Windows
applications
 A lot of others….

15. Descriptive programming
 Define identification properties not in OR, but in code itself
 You may use it: for quick implementation or you don’t have rights to
modify OR or you if you want to iterate over collection of similar
objects, etc…
 Descriptions can be:
– Dynamic
– Static
 Identification using OR is quicker!
 I prefer OR as it:
– Clear
– Centralized
– Allow you easy edit/compare/merge
– Highlight object

16. Active Screen
 Provides a snapshot of your application as it
appeared during a recording session
 Enables you to parameterize object values
and insert checkpoints, methods

17. Data table
 You can specify data for script in data table (for data-driven tests)
 Test will be iterated automatically over the data
 Functionality similar to Excel (with formulas, etc.)
 There are Global and per-action data table
 Script can create new data table
 Data can be imported/exported from Excel

18. Debugger
 Main possibilities of QTP Debugger:
– Breakpoints
– Step in/over/out
– Watch variables
– Execute code immediately
– Pause script execution

19. Reporting in QTP
 Standard method: Reporter object
Reporter.ReportEvent micFail, "Custom Step", “Details"
 Report is very verbose (usually it make no sense to show them to business-
persons and steak-holders).
 There is Report Viewer.
 Often Framework has custom reporting

20. QC integration
 Create tests and save them in quality Center project
 View QuickTest test scripts
 Run your tests and view the results in Quality Center
 Associate external files for all tests or for a single test
 Report defects to a Quality Center project either
automatically as they occur, or manually directly from the
QuickTest Run Results Viewer

21. Record/Playback
 QTP automatically adds objects to repository during record process
 Normal recording –works when environment is “open” to QTP
– Analog Recording This method enables you to record the exact
mouse and keyboard operations you perform in relation to either
the screen or the application window. In this recording mode,
QuickTest records and tracks every movement of the mouse as
you drag the mouse around a screen or window. It recorder into
file.
– Low-level – clicks on coordinates
 Events to be recorder can be configured
 Playback has Fast and Normal modes

22. Synchronization
 Sync, sync, sync!!!
 Wait – is a bad practice, do not overuse it
 Object synchronization timeout setting of the script
 Sync method of browser Waits for the browser to complete the current
navigation.
 Browser Navigation Timeout - amount of time that QuickTest waits for
a Web page to load
 WaitProperty method
 Exist method

23. Data sharing
 Necessary part of every team
 Global Dictionary
 Environment variables
 Action’s input and input parameters
 Data table

24. Checkpoints in QTP
 Check objects against expected data
 There are several checkpoints:
– Standard
– Image
– Bitmap
– Table
– Accessibility
– XML
– DB

25. Access to internal object
 Powerful instrument when you need to get better control or
need to do non-standard operation
 You get access to object’s internal API
 Supported not for all environment (works for Java, .NET,
Internet Explorer, Firefox)
 Example: to set value in some custom JFormattedTextField
fields you may use such code:
JavaWindow(“Test”).JavaEdit(“JFormattedTextField”).Set “some val”
JavaWindow(“Test”).JavaEdit(“JFormattedTextField”).Object.commitEdit()

26. Recovery Scenarios
 Recovery scenarios activate specific recovery operations when trigger events
occur (when occurs unexpected events, errors, and application crashes during
a run session )
 A recovery scenario consists of the following:
– Trigger Event. The event that interrupts your run session. For example, a window that
pops up on the screen, or a QuickTest run error.
– Recovery Operations. The operations to perform to enable QuickTest to continue
running the test after the trigger event interrupts the run session. For example,
clicking an OK button in a pop-up window, or restarting Microsoft Windows.
– Post-Recovery Test Run Option. The instructions on how QuickTest should proceed
after the recovery operations have been performed, and from which point in the test
QuickTest should continue, if at all. You may want to restart a test from the
beginning, or skip a step entirely and continue with the next step in the test.

27. Demo
 Record Login into demo app
 Test login
 Add order
 Use checkpoints

28. Links
 http://qtp.blogspot.com – Tutorials
 http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/54936-qtp-tool-features-presentation - QTP Features
presentation