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Dec 11

QTP Performance Testing for a Single User

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 [...]

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Aug 11

VBScript: Overflow error using CInt function

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 [...]

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Mar 10

Why Declare a Variable in VBScript?

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 [...]