QTP Introduction

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QTP is a Functionality Testing Tool developed by Mercury Interactive later merged with HP

QTP has released in following Versions. 5.5 6.5 8.0 8.2 9.0 9.1 9.2

 9.5

10.00

11.00

HP Has its Own Tool ST(Service Tool)

QTP+HP ST=UFT 11.50

                            11.52 (Latest)

License

They are three types of licenses

 1) Seat License (Single User) and

 2) Concurrent License (Multiple Users)

 3)commuter license

Technologies

QTP 11.52 Supports following Technologies

.Net, VB, JAVA, ActiveX Controls, Web Servers, People Soft, SAP, Oracle, Terminal Emulators, HTML, DHTML, XML,Delpi,Sibel ….. etc.,

Note

QTP does not support on Linux / Unix Operating Systems. X-Runner supports on Linux / Unix Operating System.

QTP can support client / Server, Web Applications.

QTP Records the business operations in VB Script (It can also support JAVA Script)

QTP can support Multimedia Applications such as Flash, Windows Media Player, Real Video etc., 

 
List of Automation Tools

Tool Name	Company Name	Latest Version
HP Unified Function Testing Tool (QTP+ST) Quick Test Pro + Service Test	HP	11.5
HP Quick Test Professional	HP	11.00
IBM Rational Functional Tester	IBM Rational	8.1.0.3
Rational robot	IBM Rational	2001
Selenium	Open Source Tool	1.0.1
Silk Test	Micro focus	2009
Test Complete	Automated QA	7.52
Test Partner	Micro Focus	6.3
WATIR	Open Source Tool	1.6.5

QTP 11 New features

XPath and CSS based object identification
Good Looking and Enhanced Results Viewer
Easy Regular Expressions
Visual relation identifier
Load Function Libraries at Run Time
Test Your GUI and UI-Less Application Functionality in One Test
Record Support For FireFox
Much Awaited Log Tracking is available now
Embed/Run Javascript in web pages
Manage Test Data
Web 2.0 Toolkit Applications Support
Automatically Parameterize Steps
Silverlight Add-in
Extend WPF and Silverlight Support