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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. 

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 [...]

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:

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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.  [...]