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This blog article might seem to many people as a very basic topic and the content obvious. However I’m surprised at how often I still come across technology departments that do not have proper hardware environments for software development that maintains code integrity, security, isolation and Production similar configurations. Let’s discuss the basic high-level configuration [...]

VBScript is a very flexible scripting language that provides full programming capabilities for various implementations.  VBScript is the programming language used by QuickTest Pro, so when you are in the Expert View doing some advanced programming you will regularly create variables and use them to hold various data values.  All variables in VBScript are of [...]

This is part of my series on “What is QA really all about?”  I find that even today after all these years of sophistication in software development that organizations still don’t really understand what QA is really all about and what is truly involved in verifying that an application is ready for Production deployment.  As [...]

This is the first part of my series on “What is QA really all about?”  I find that even today after all these years of sophistication in software development that organizations still don’t really understand what QA is really all about and what is truly involved in verifying that an application is ready for Production [...]

Connecting the Quality Center to QuickTest Pro
A common problem and question that I see a lot from people is “How do I see my QuickTest Pro script in the Quality Center?”  This is normally a very simple issue to resolve, mainly because it was a process that was just not setup initially.  After the installation [...]

QuickTest Pro sample code – sending an email using Outlook
This QuickTest Pro code sample shows how you can create a subroutine that will send an email using Microsoft Outlook.  The subroutine is defined and can either be placed at the top of your script (must be executed first before it is called in order for the [...]

WinRunner vs QuickTest Pro: Quick Comparison
Document Update – January 2010
January 2010 Update: Originally I wrote a document several years ago when QuickTest Professional was really hitting the market as a popular tool.  The document was written to help address the numerous questions received on what was a better solution for a company to go with [...]

Question: “Have you been involved in calculating the ROI on Automation testing projects. Generally it has been found that the right ROI can be achieved only in long term projects spanning 2-5 years. As it takes a long time to understand the application and then develop a suite of test scripts, which provides benefits in [...]

QuickTest Professional (QTP) is a great test automation tool used for functional testing.  It is the “cadillac” of the testing tools with tons of features and interfaces.  It’s strength can also be its weakness; it is very robust with numerous capabilities however this can also be very overwhelming and confusing to people new to the tool and test [...]