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Jan 12

QTP – Saving your test run data

You can’t actually modify the data permanently in the datatable associated with the test script during a test run but there are two approaches you can take in order to save the data into an external file that you can use later. 

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Jan 12

QTP “AddWastedTime” function

QuickTest Pro Tips & Tricks: This article compliments the post “QTP Performance Testing for a Single User” found on my website.  During the process of logging how long a process takes, you may know that you have some processing time that you do not want to take into account.  You may have some “wait” statements [...]

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Dec 11

QTP Performance Testing for a Single User

Performance testing can be done with QTP, but in a limited scope – only from a single user standpoint, for functional testing.  Years ago when the “QTP VUser” for LoadRunner was introduced they incorporated the “start_transaction” & “end_transaction” functions.  These are used by LoadRunner for tracking performance timings for load testing, but you can also [...]

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Nov 11

What is A/B testing?

Normally this is where you are testing out two different consumer experiences to see which one yields better results.  It might be for traffic, path progression, cosmetic appeal, click-throughs, etc.  This is normally conducted by the business, in Production and performed by driving a specific volume of traffic evenly across the two platforms for a [...]

26
Oct 11

Quality Center Backup Strategy

If implemented properly, the Quality Center will become an incredible resource for all your testing information in your test team and become the core for your test strategy & methodology.  Because of this it is extremely important for you to protect this information with not only proper security but to backup this information in order [...]

21
Oct 11

Web Browser Versions, Stats and Testing

If your business is on the internet, then you need to be concerned with how your website looks on the various browsers that are currently available to users.  You never know what browser a user is going to use to view your website, and if it doesn’t look good then they will leave and you [...]

24
Sep 11

Open Source Defect Tracking

I have always used the Quality Center which is not open source and rather expensive but the best test management tool out there offering many features other than just defect tracking.  But if you can’t afford it then the two open source defect tracking tools I know of and have used that are good and will [...]

31
Aug 11

Learn QuickTest Pro v10 Online

QuickTest Pro version 10 Online Training - On Sale for $50!  Includes 12 lessons consisting of 179 online pages of training material!  Begin your learning experience online now; work at your own pace, at home, on the road or where it is convenient for you, and on your own time schedule.  The QuickTest Pro v10 Basics course [...]

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Aug 11

Severity and Priority – Do we really need them?

In an ideal environment all the defects found in a release would get fixed before the project went live in Production.  However with today’s fast paced businesses, projects are typically defined for a specifc delivery date with very little to no room for date extensions.  This is largely due to having to meet a business [...]

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Mar 11

QuickTest Pro Data Table Limitations

This article is written based on QuickTest Professional version 10, however it applies to most of the past versions. What is the Maximum Rows and Columns in QuickTest Pro? The data table built into QuickTest Professional is actually a 3rd party product that was integrated into the product back when Mercury Interactive first created AstraQuickTest.  [...]

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