Add-In Manager

QTP supports almost all industry leading technologies, but by default it does not support, with respect to add in license it supports.

Default Add- ins of QTP are:

·         Activex

·         Visual basic

·         Web.

Other available Add Ins are: .NET, Java, People soft, Siebel, TE (Terminal Emulators), SAP for GUI, Sap for Web, Oracle Apps, Web Services etc.

During QTP launching it shows Add in manger dialog box, Add in Manger lists out all available Add Ins in the company.

User needs to select appropriate Add Ins for his application or AUT.

One can select more than one Add Ins also; if we select unnecessary Add Ins QTP performance will be reduced.

Version History of QTP

·         Astra Quick test (Mother tool of QTP) 1.0 to 5.0

·         Quick Test Professional

·         5.6 – Nov 2002

·         6.5 – 2003

·         8.0 – 2004

·         8.2, 8.3 –2005

·         9.0,9.1-2006

·         9.2- 2007 mercury interactive

·         9.5 –2008  H.P

·         10.00 –2009 January

Basic features of QTP

• QTP Launched in 2002 (Nov). By Mercury Interactive. Later taken over by HP, in 2007.
• QTP is an Object Based Testing Tool.
• QTP is for functional and Regression Testing.
• It follows Keyword driven approach.
• It supports Windows Operating Environment only.
• It supports GUI based (Graphical user interface) and Web based Applications Automation, does not support CUI (Command user interface) Applications.
• It has multilingual support. (It supports English, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc languages with respect to license.)
• It has adapted Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting edition for programming and excel like spread sheet for Data driven testing.
• SQL (Structured query language) embedded or inserted with QTP, so we can use SQL statements directly from QTP.
• It can be integrated with other Tools like WinRunner and Quality Center.
• It can be used for user interface (UI) test case automation and some limited (Non UI) Test case automation like File system operations and Data base operations.
• It was derived from Astra QuickTest (mother tool of QTP).
• It supports IE (Internet Explorer) only for recording tests, for execution it supports other browsers like Mozilla and AOL, opera Etc apart from IE.
• QTP is a Desktop Application (I-Tier/Stand alone).
• QTP has two types of License,
• 1. Seat or Node locked License,
• 2. Concurrent or float license
• Seat license for one system and Concurrent License, we can use for any system but one user at any time. If we want multiple concurrent licenses we can purchase.
• QTP has UNI code support.