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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:

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

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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

Did you know that when it comes to redimensionalizing a multi-dimensional array in VBScript, you can only redimensionalize the last element (which is the columns) not the first element (which is the rows)?  This is true and can be rather annoying and limiting in scope.  Unfortunately you are stuck dealing with it so what this [...]

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 [...]

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.  [...]

Software versions: QTP v11, IE8, Windows7 Issue: All of a sudden QuickTest Pro stopped recognizing the web browser and saw it only as a winobject (like a regular GUI window).  So none of my actions on the web page would get recorded, and my test script would be empty.  Obviously this is a major problem. [...]

The other day someone said “I can’t insert a standard checkpoint after I created my script; on the menu the choices are disabled”.  Actually you can insert certain checkpoints after recording once you have a script created with objects in it.  Here are some choices: