HP QuickTest Professional

HP QuickTest Pro 10 Beta: Antediluvian

Mondays are frequently "One of Those Days", where I start off by questioning myself over and over "Why did I get into this business of test automation? What was I thinking??" Then I hear the dire financial news, look at my personal slice of the national debt, and realize that it's too late in my...

Agilimation: Test Automation in Agile Methodology – Part II

The last time we talked about 'Agilimation', we looked at the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and some of the Principles that make a test automation scripter cringe. This time, let's look at...

HP QuickTest Pro 10 Beta: The End?

Yesterday I said, "I hope I don’t find out tomorrow that QTP 10 is not compatible with QC 9.0." Guess what? QTP 10 is not compatible with Quality Center 9.0 -- at least as far as saving Business Components, scripted or otherwise! It does allow me to save QTP scripts, function libraries,...

HP QuickTest Pro 10 Beta: It Begins

Finding Atlantis Today I began installing the QuickTest Pro Version 10 Beta. I would have done this last week, except that HP insisted that the installation files be downloaded from a storage website -- from several websites, I should say, because 7 RAR files each ~200MB used up...

Agilimation: Test Automation in Agile Methodology – Part I

A lot of organizations claim to be doing Agile development, but it's often difficult to pin down exactly what they mean by that claim. I remember reading the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and thinking, "Well, that's one way to get managers and...

function junction: Objects in a Web Frame

Here is a very handy structure for dealing with objects contained in a web frame:

Set rc = frmObj.Object.getElementsByTagName("IMG") numObjs = rc.length If numObjs > 0 Then For i=0 to numObjs-1 objClass = "" : objText = "" : objID = "" On Error...

The Birth of Business Process Testing

Not recently, several test tool vendors introduced a concept known as Business Process Testing. In general, it's a method for organizing test assets in such a way that their relationship to the business processes they represent is obvious to the non-technical user. To understand what this...

HP Mercury QTP and QC: Links

Recommended links for some really good information related to HP Mercury Quality Center and QuickTest Professional: TDForums: http://tdforums.tdadmins.com/index.php?act=idx Titled as "An HP Software Community", this...

HP QuickTest Pro 10 Beta

My current employer is about to participate in a beta test for HP's QuickTest Professional 10 release, also known as "Atlantis". This release was demo'ed at HP's Software Universe expo this summer. I did not attend this event, but from what I have read, it has some long-awaited...

Virtualization: the ‘QuickTest Appliance’ Concept

VMWare Server is a great product. It can be used to host Virtual Machines (VMs) that operate independently from each other and from the host server, creating a tightly controlled test execution environment. Here's an example: