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EASY WAY TO AUTOMATE TESTING

A UT O M A T ED S O F T W A R E T ES T I NG A ND D I F F ER ENT W A YS O N HO W T O D O M O R E A ND Q UI C K ER
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10 steps to become QTP guru

Would y ou like to know how to becom e QT P guru?
The recipe is simple. Y ou should learn the following:
1 . VBScript
QTP uses V BScript language. That's why strong knowledge of
V BScript is 'must hav e'.
Sources:
w3schools' V BScript tutorial
MS' V BScript Guide.
2. Software T esting Autom ation Fram eworks
To write good automated tests, y ou should know how to write
them.
There are different approaches and solution. There is not a silv er
bullet.
Sources:
Test Automation Frameworks
Choosing a Test Automation Framework
Totally Data-Driv en Automated Testing
Sev en Steps to Test Automation Success
3. HP QuickT est Professional T utorial
This QTP tutorial cames with QTP.
It's quite clean and informativ e. Its main goal is to show and ex plain
basic concepts of QuickTest Professional. It prov ides knowledge on:
creating a test
working with Object Repository (OR)
running and analy zing tests
v erify ing tests
parameterizing, etc
Sources: '\help\QTTutorial.pdf' or '\help\Tutorial.chm' in QTP
Install folder.
4. HP QuickT est Professional User's Guide
As prev ious tutorial, the present User's Guide come with QTP install
too.
This guide is intended for QuickTest Professional users at all lev els.
It giv es a deeper knowledge on:
working with QTP Object Repositoies
designing tests
enhancing tests (checkpoints, parameterizing, etc)
maintaining anf debugging tests
adv anced testing features, etc
Sources: '\help\QTUsersGuide.pdf' or '\help\MainUsersGuide.chm'
in QTP Install folder.
5. COM/DCOM T echnologies
When working with QTP, y ou will be closely linked with such
Microsoft's applications, as: Ex cel, Word, Outlook. So, I recommend
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to get familiar with COM, COM Technologies, and COM objects of:
MS Internet Ex plorer
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6. SQL
SQL is so important in programming, that I strongly recommend to
spend time to learn SQL:
concepts of RDBM
selecting/updating/deleting data
SQL queries optimizations
databases administration
Sources:
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7 . XML
XML is an ex tremely popular and useful format. I'm sure that ou
will hav e to deal with data, stored in XML-files.
Sources:
w3schools' XML tutorial
8. HT ML, DOM
Since QuickTest Professional works perfectly with web applications,
y ou should be ex pert in related fields - HTML, HTTP, DHTML, DOM,
etc. They will simplify y our future QTP script and make them more
reliable and maintenable.
Sources:
w3schools' HTML tutorial
w3schools' DHTML tutorial
A Beginner's Guide to the XML DOM
DOM tutorials
9. HP QT P Knowledge Base
It contains a lot of practical articles about QuickTest Professional.
Y ou can find there QTP webinars, QTP FAQs, documentations,
solutions of y our problems or different way s how to improv e y our
QTP automated tests.
Sources:
HP Self-solv e Knowledge Search (requires an access to HP
site)
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Shrini Kulkarni said...
It is pathetic and sorry state of affairs to see that in y our list there is

How to capture array of

dy namic data?
LoadRunner - Broken links
detection

no item for "learning" testinging.

How to run program on remote

computer?

After all QTP or any automation for that matter is slav e to "testing".

web_reg_sav e_param
LoadRunner function

If y ou do not know how to do testing better - y ou will not be able to

"stupidly " documented (also outdated) test cases ... What is the use

LoadRunner parameter
operations

of QTP knowledge then?

LoadRunner

serv e y our stakeholders as y ou will be at the mercy of some

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parameter/parameterization
Here are my two steps to become a v aluable Test Automation
professional (QTP included)

Running QTP script from

LoadRunner

1 . Learn and Practice Testing (thinking, questioning, modeling etc)

QTP - How to set/get sy stem

time and date?

2. Learn Programming of any sort (V B, PERL, Jav a, ....) understand

User-defined LoadRunner
library

how to write a better code

LoadRunner - How to download

and sav e file?

Rest all is becomes easier if y ou get to master abov e (that itself

takes ages)

LoadRunner - How to record a

file sav ing?

Shrini Kulkarni

LoadRunner correlation - v isual

tutorial

http://shrinik.blogspot.com
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Custom LoadRunner Analy sis

report
LoadRunner - conv erting tex t

Dmitry Motev ich said...

2Shrini Kulkarni,

QTP - getting font

name/size/color

Thank y ou for y our comment.

Loadrunner parameter ex ample

It seems, that e stand on opposite sides of the door :)

LoadRunner - Memory leaks

detection

The abov e list ex plains technical side of QTP specialist!

Y our list of two items is great.
Also, I can simplfy it. I would put the one step only :

B L O G A R C HI V E

1 . Learn how to work sm art, not hard!

2009 (2)

If y ou are smart specialist, y ou can find answer on absolutely any

question - from QA, programming field, IT managements, etc.
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Nov ember (5)
October (2)

sushmitha said...

September (9)

Hi Dmitry Motev ich,

August (6)
July (4)

This is sushmitha, I just saw some of y our posted QTP v edios

today ..It was grt
I learnt lot today and am v ery much satisfied with the content i
gained...I started automation with Winrunner and now intrested to
learn QTP...Luckily I got y our site which is most helpful to me...
I will be posting my queries sooner..Thank y ou :-)

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iteration number of QTP
script?...
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tutorial - Parameters
part2 ('Sel...

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Hello Sir,
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June (9)
I am beginner to Load runner and it helped me a lot and v ery nice
and detailed v edio.

May (5)
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Thanks

March (4)

Nav y a

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Gaurav said...

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Hi can y ou please tell me what to study under links for oracle \it
opens the 1 0 g page and huge
thnaks gaurav
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Gopinath said...

QTP (33)

Hi Shrini,

V ideo (1 7 )
LR parameters (1 1 )

We should be thankful to Dmitry for posting such v aluable

information on QTP and LoadRunner. As he/she replied to y our
comment, this blog is basically for a professional who is currently
into automation and not who is learning testing. If y ou want to
learn testing, there are a lot of websites, which giv e v aluable
information on testing.
Sites/Blogs such as Dmitry 's are the ones that come to our rescue
when we are ex ecuting projects and we need help on a concept
which we hav e probably nev er heard of in the tool.

Correlation (5)
My money (3)
TopList (2)
WMI (1 )
memory leaks (1 )

C O NT R I B UT O R S

DM2
Dmitry Motev ich

I would like to thank Dmitry for posting such v aluable knowledge

on automation tools.
Thanks,
Gopinatha Rao Y areeda
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Roshid said...
Shirni,
Whats wrong with y ou? Y ou are jealous or out of y our mind? What
Dmitry Motev ich has pov ided is quite useful to us.Of course it is not
for a person who has just started learning testing. Y ou need to learn
how to show respect to others.
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sriniv as said...
dude shrini ... u suck... this website is awesome...
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Shrini Kulkarni said...
I thank all people who called me "suck", "jealous" ad what not...
All of y ou tought me something....at times, a pragmatic comment
made with an intention of improv ing things can be misunderstood.
At no point of time I had the intentions of dev aluing the
information that Dmitry giv es on his site. He is doing great job.
Please focus on what intend to say , for long term v alue and career I think it is important to focus on learning about testing (before
than any thing else) and then about some programming. QTP comes
last. If y ou spend good time in first two items (soak y ourself well) becoming guru in QTP is no big thing at all. I think Dmitry knows it
well - it ev ident from his reply . I reacted that way as some newbies,
with the intention of becoming guru in QTP will mistake Dmitry 's
suggestions. My message was to see Dmitry 's suggestions with
proper background.
Now some specific comments...
@ Gopinath :
Y ou said "this blog is basically for a professional who is currently
into automation and not who is learning testing."
It is hard for me to call any professional as automation prof if he is
not interested in learning testing (note that no one has mastered
testing y et ... no one.. so y ou can not say .. I know testing well so
now I am an automation professional). This is my personal
ex perience. Y ou automation knowledge will be ZERO if y ou do not
understand testing rationale behind it. So at any point do not
(nev er make this mistake) see automation without thinking about
testing. When y ou can learn testing in y our whole life time - keeping
an ey e about what problems automation attempts to solv e in
testing is important.
Automation can NEV ER stand on its own... it requires testing to
support it. Hence my comment.
>>>If y ou want to learn testing, there are a lot of websites, which
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giv e v aluable information on testing.

I know ... and check out my blog
http://shrinik.blogspot.com to understand my philosophy of
testing. That will probably giv e y ou some background as why I am
say ing what I am say ing.

>>> Sites/Blogs such as Dmitry 's are the ones that come to our
rescue when we are ex ecuting projects and we need help on a
concept which we hav e probably nev er heard of in the tool.
This is 1 00% perfect ... But do not forget the foundation.
@ Roshid,
>>>Shirni,Whats wrong with y ou? Y ou are jealous or out of y our
mind?
If y ou think that I am jealous ... y ou can make that decision. That
does not take away any thing that I stand for ... holistic approach to
testing hence automation. It is my personal v iew that testing and
automation alway s go together.
Y es, I am jealous that the good work that Dmitry is doing has
potential to be misunderstood or misused as "quick-fix "/alternativ e
to long term learning about testing. I am jealous that I want Dmitry
to succeed in spreading the knowledge but I thought I caution him
against people misinterpreting the content.
>>> Of course it is not for a person who has just started learning
testing.
So which comes first -- testing or automation? Since testing is
something nev er ends ... any giv en point of time y our hav e 50%
pre-occupied with how test better.
Can y ou think of a person without his/her brain? thinking about
automation without hav ing proper study and practice of testing is
like a person without brain.
Shrini
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Hi
I don't hav e any coding knowledge and can I learn QTP .
If y es, how???Plz prov ide the material.
Is scripting too hard in QTP.
Any one ex pert in QTP please guide
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AY Y APPA said...
Hi Srini
I think y ou r still @ old testing theory ; now the Automation is
taking to another dimension; Automation may go or may not go
along with the testing ; as for automation prof tests cases are more
or like requirement docs. And these test cases serv es the
automation dev elopers just like how requirement docs serv es the
Dev elopers
Y our theory is correct. but doesn't mean that all the Automation
blogs should hav e Manual testing concepts
This website is really cool and serv es the purpose
if one wants to get into automation without learning the manual
testing ; he can start his carrier.
Automation ex perts are no more Testers they are like Dev elopers

Thanks.,
Ay y appa.K
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Mohammad said...
Hi Demitry ,
I don't know how to thank y ou and ex press my appreciation for all
y our help and efforts in preparing these useful subjects and
information for others with no ex pectation. thanks a lot. Keep
going and good luck!
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