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Apr 12

Moving Quality Center server

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The Quality Center is not tied to any specific IP Address, so if your IT group needs to move your QC server to another network it is not a big deal.  Just remember to do a few things:

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Apr 12

How to get QTP to work with Firefox

Category: QuickTest Pro, Software Testing, Tools | Comments Off

If you are having issues with QuickTest Professional recognizing Firefox, it could be because the patch installation was not able to make the appropriate modifications in the Program Files directory due to security restrictions presented by Windows7 (even if you have Administrator rights).  In this case you have to make the changes yourself with Administrative [...]

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Apr 12

QTP v11 Patches Overview

Category: QuickTest Pro, Software Testing | Comments Off

Below is an overview/summary of some of the key patches needed for QuickTest Professional (QTP) version 11 for performing automation with the standard plugins and particularly the Web add-in on Windows7.  Since this gets confusing I summarized them below.

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Oct 11

Quality Center Backup Strategy

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 [...]

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Oct 11

Web Browser Versions, Stats and Testing

Category: Software Testing, Test Management | Comments Off

If your business is on the internet, then you need to be concerned with how your website looks on the various browsers that are currently available to users.  You never know what browser a user is going to use to view your website, and if it doesn’t look good then they will leave and you [...]

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Feb 11

QTP – Web Recording Issue

Category: QuickTest Pro, Software Testing | Comments Off

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. [...]