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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 [...]

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:

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

VBScript is a very flexible scripting language that provides full programming capabilities for various implementations.  VBScript is the programming language used by QuickTest Pro, so when you are in the Expert View doing some advanced programming you will regularly create variables and use them to hold various data values.  All variables in VBScript are of [...]