INTRODUCTION TO QTP

Quick Test Professional is a functional and regression test automation software tool developed by Mercury Interactive. Currently owned by HP and commonly known as HP Quick test professional.
  QTP is a Record and playback tool(recording not preferred always) as well as Programmatic tool which uses VbScripting for scripting. QTP Supports technologies depending upon the Version of the tool, Web, Java, .Net, SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Delphi, Power Builder, Flex, Sliver light.
QTP is a licensed tool it comes with a trail version.
Latest QTP version is 11.0 - Released in 2010.

Advantages of QTP

1. Ease of use.

2. Use of VBScript, which makes QTP significantly easier for a non-programmer person to understand and create Test case / scripts.

3. Object identification mechanism is better.

4. Technology support is good. The supported technologies, depending on the QTP version, are available for Web, Java(Core and Advanced), .Net, WPF, SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Delphi, Power Builder, Stingray 1, Terminal Emulator, Flex, Web Services, Windows Mobile, VisualAge Smalltalk, Silverlight and mainframe terminal emulators.

5. Various Parameterization types in QTP, which ease the test cases for the same operations with multiple sets of data.

6. QTP Supports Framework like modular, Keyword, data driven and Hybrid.

7. Handling Dynamic objects are possible with use of Descriptive programming.

8. QTP Reports are clear and easily understand.
 

Disadvantages or drawbacks of QTP

1. QTP works only on Windows OS thereby becoming Platform dependent tool.

2. Poor support for cross browser testing. Supports only IE and little version of Firefox.

3. License and maintenance cost is high.

4. QTP consumes more memory.

5. In QTP you cannot work on multiple scripts at a time like in winrunner.

6. CPU utilization is more in QTP.

Major Topics in QTP:

-Testing Process

-Object and Object Repositories

-QTP Recording

-Actions

-Parameterization

-Check Points

-VB Scripting

-Descriptive Programming

-Synchronization

-File system Objects

-Frameworks

Will be explaining each topics in my upcoming posts.

Test Automation Tools

Automation Tools are available in two types, Open Source(Free) and Licensed. Below, I have listed few Test Automation tools which are used widely across the Testing Industry.

	From	HP
	Version	Licensed
	Website	http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software/enterprise-software.html
HP QuickTest Professional	OS	Windows 2000,Windows XP,Windows 2003 Server,Windows 7
	Browsers	IE8 and FF3.6. IE9
	Supported Application	Web,windows and below given technologies
	Technology	Web, Java(Core and Advanced), .Net, WPF, SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Delphi, Power Builder, Stingray 1, Terminal Emulator, Flex, Web Services, Windows Mobile, VisualAge Smalltalk, Silverlight and mainframe terminal emulators

	From	ThoughtWorks Studios
	Version	Open Source
	Website	http://seleniumhq.org/
Selenium	OS	Windows,Linux,Solaris
	Browsers	firefox(Record & Playback);IE8,7(RC & Core);Safari2,3(RC & Core);Opera9,8(RC & Core)
	Supported Application	Web
	Technology	C#,Java,Perl,PHP,Python,Ruby

	From	IBM
	Version	Licensed
	Website	http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/functional/
IBM Rational Functional Tester	OS	Windows,Linux
	Browsers
	Supported Application	Seibel and SAP applications,Adobe Flex technology
	Technology	Seibel,SAP,Adobe Flex technology

	From	IBM
	Version	Licensed
	Website	http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/tester/robot/
Rational robot	OS	Windows XP,ME, 2003, 2000, 98 or Windows NT.
	Browsers
	Supported Application	e-commerce, client/server and ERP applications
	Technology	HTML and DHTML, Java™, VS.NET, Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++, Oracle Developer/2000, PeopleSoft, Sybase PowerBuilder and Borland Delphi. For advanced testing of Java. VS.NET and Web-based applications, as well as of 3270 (zSeries™) and 5250 (iSeries™) terminal-based applications

	From	Borland
	Version	Licensed
	Website	http://www.borland.com/us/products/silk/silktest/
SilkTest	OS	Windows XP,Vista,7
	Browsers	Firefox 3.5,3.6;IE 6,7,8
	Supported Application
	Technology	Adobe Flex,Java 1.6,.NET,SAP,SQL,Oracle

	From	SmartBear Software
	Version	Licensed
	Website	http://smartbear.com/products/qa-tools/automated-testing/
TestComplete	OS	Windows 7, Vista, XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008
	Browsers	Firefox 3.5—4.0,IE6—9
	Supported Application	Windows and Web testing
	Technology	.NET, WPF, ASP.NET, Silverlight and XBAP

	From	Microsoft
	Version	Licensed
	Website	http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/test-professional/overview
Visual Studio Test Professional	OS	Windows
	Browsers	IE7/IE8,FireFox 3.5 and 3.6
	Supported Application
	Technology	HTML,AJAX,SharePoint

	From	Tyto Software
	Version	Open Source, Licensed
	Website	http://sahi.co.in
SAHI	OS
	Browsers	Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari
	Supported Application	Web
	Technology

	From
	Version	Open Source
	Website	http://watir.com/
WATIR	OS	Windows,Linux
	Browsers	Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari
	Supported Application	Web
	Technology

Reference: Internet