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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 [...]

QuickTest Pro Tips & Tricks: You can spawn an Edit Box from within your QuickTest Pro test script using the “InputBox” VBScript function.  This function will open up an Edit box where you can type in a value.  The help syntax is as follows:

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 [...]

QTP Coding Tip: There are a variety of test setting in QuickTest Pro, and you can change the Test Settings in QuickTest Pro from within your test script during test execution if you have a need to.  Some examples are as follows. Changing Object Synchronization Timeout from within a QTP script:

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 [...]

Tips & Tricks Series – VBScript Procedures Overview If you are using QuickTest Pro, then QTP uses VBScript as the programming language and there are basically two types of procedures in VBScript - Functions and Subroutines.  The main difference between them is

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 [...]

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Tips & Tricks Series – Overflow error Ever get an “Overflow error” when using the CInt function?  You might encounter this error when you are doing some programming in your test script and doing some data manipulations or calculations.  Let’s review an example of a situation that could cause this to happen – a classic [...]

Using a built-in VBScript Date function, you can easily get the current date (or another date using a formula) in a variety of common formats without having to worry about trying to write your own function to format the date into a specific layout.  This can save you a ton of time.  The function is