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.