Help greatly appreciated

[pazzuzu]

Hi guys,

Our company has started to automate testing and started using the tool QTP.Iam new to QTP and I have the following questions to ask.

Would appreciate if anyone could give me a hand on this and explain things in a detailed way.

[1]

Bugs outside checkpoints: I know that I can easily make the QTP do what I want inside the application. Also, I know that I can insert some checkpoints and that the qtp will notice if those conditions are not met. However, there are bugs and problems that might not be connected to a checkpoint (system crash, database error, losing session/logout etc.); how can I make sure that the QTP will notice such problems as well and flag a test as failed.

[2]

How to tell the QTP that when a particular statement is "false",it should flag it as, test failed and show in in the test report.
In short how to tell the qtp that a test is false from the script so that it shows it in the report

For Eg:-

if(true)

test passed // how to instruct qtp
else
test failed // how to instruct qtp


[3]
Test script portability: we are having several environments; If I record a test on User Interface, obviously, the qtp will save the URL; however, how can I make the qtp run the tests so that the url is provided dynamically.

Is there a possibility to parameterize the web server.Is this the way to do it.I dont know?


[4]
Test management: How do I manage the tests? I guess we will be doing it in Quality Center, yet, it’s not perfectly clear to me how we will be doing that.

[5]
Running scheduled test sets: How do I group tests to a certain test set? How can I make this test set run at a predefined time?

[6]

Test maintenance: What do we need to do beforehand in order to enable for easy test maintenance, meaning small adjustments in tests?

[7]
Reports: What kind of reports on test results are available (Quality Center)? or how can we generate test reports from quality centre

Thanks in advance and hoping for an answer.

Jen

[kishoreinchennai]

1)
Recovery Scenario Manger which can handle application crash.
for others you need to define the exact symtom of the problem

for example what happens when there is a database error define that
when it will happen?if you can define this then it must be easy to capture

2)


If (False) Then
Reporter.ReportEvent MicFail, "Something terrible has happened", "Aborting"
ExitAction
End If

3)I do have a similar setup and this what i do :

a)I Define a xml file with an environmental variable

read this file before test and set the carable


b)i update this file before every run on the url i need to launch

c)I call system.util.command with this variable as the parameter.

basically i launch the browser with a different url on different environement.

5)

Use Multi test manager free from HP you can shedule QTP Test:

But there are few Issues where it doesnt work when the machine if locked .you can handle those issues probably use a pc caffine if allowed in your environment.

Others i dont have much expertise.

Please let me know if ou like discuss any of the above in detail

Regards

[pazzuzu]

Thanks Kishore.Will contact u ,If I need any clarifications
Should I post here or do you have any email Id......

[Ankur]

ok to add on ...

6) Use ini files to make sure the configuration is same across all dev machines, make use of relative paths, make sure that you follow these qtp optimization tips and some of these general qtp tips

7) QTP gives you an HTML report by dafault , you can also convert it to PDF

[kishoreinchennai]

I Read this forum daily Post it here it will reach a wider audience

regards
Kishore