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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 [...]

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. [...]

There was a posting I responded to the other day where someone was asking about what kind of support QTP has for SQLServer. QTP supports relational databases, so anything that uses standard SQL is supported – like SQLServer, Oracle, MySQL, Access, etc. You just have to have the database driver installed on the same machine [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]