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A complete guide to working on Quality Center with QTP

Automation Object Model, Miscellaneous Concepts on QTP

Q: What are the prerequisites to connect QTP with QC?

A:

  1. Check Allow other Mercury products to run tests and components present under Tools > Options > Run in QTP
  2. If you are running the tests on the same computer where you have QC client installed, then you will need:
    1. QTP Connectivity Add-In
    2. QTP Add-in
  3. If you are running the tests on the different computer than where you have QC client installed, then you will need:
    1. QTP Add-in where QC client is installed.
    2. QTP Add-in and QC connectivity Add-in where QTP is installed.
  4. QC connectivity can be found at QC server URL > ‘Add-Ins Page’ link > ‘QC Connectivity’ link > ‘Download Add-in’
  5. QTP Add-in can be found at QC server URL > ‘Add-Ins Page’ link > ‘More QC Add-ins’ link > Download and install QTP Add-in according to its version.

Q: How can we connect QC with QTP using Automation Object Model (AOM)?

A:

Use TDConnection Object.

Example:

‘ Create the QuickTest Professional application object.
Set qtqcApp = CreateObject(“QuickTest.Application”)qtqcApp.Launch ‘Launch QTP
qtqcApp.Visible = True ‘Make it visible 

‘Connect to Quality Center

‘qtqcApp.TDConnection.Connect <QC Server path>, <Domain name that contains QC project>,
‘<Project Name in QC you want to connect to>, <UserName>, <Password>,
‘ <Whether ‘password is entered in encrypted or normal. Value is True for encrypted and FALSE for normal>

qtqcApp.TDConnection.Connect “http://QualityCenterServer/tdbin”,
“FR”, “Flights”, “learnqtp”, “welcome”, False

Q: How can we automatically connect QTP with QC on start up?

A: Go to File > Quality Center Connection. Check the box marked Reconnect to server on start-up.automatically-connect-qc-qtp

Q: What if QTP tries to connect with QC automatically but QC login credentials had changed?

A: Change the following properties from 1 to 0. They are present in mic.ini file under QTP installation generally found under C:\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\bin

  1. LoginAutomatically=0
  2. ReconnectToDB=0
  3. ReconnectToServer=0

Q: How can we access Quality Center Open Test Architecture (OTA) using AOM?

A: Using QCUtil object (AKA TDUtil for QTP 6.5 and backwards). You can find details of all associated properties like CurrentRun, TestRun, Current Testset, CurrentTestSetTest, IsConnected, QCConnection under QTP Help > Quick Test Object Model Reference > Utility Objects > QCUtil Object.

Q: Where can we find all methods and properties present under TDConnection Object?

A: Refer QTP Help > QTP Advanced References >  QuickTest Automation > TDConnection Object.

Q: How can we upload QTP scripts to QC using AOM?

A: Once connected to Quality Center, open the test using AOM and save it to QC.

Example:

qtqcApp.Open “C:\Temp\Project\QTPTestScript1″, True
‘ Get the Test object
Set qtqcTest = qtqcApp.Test
‘ Use the SaveAs method to upload the test to Quality Center
qtqcApp.Test.SaveAs “[QualityCenter] Subject\FolderName\QTPTScript”

Q: Which version of QTP is compatible with which version of Quality Center?

A: QC 9.0 integrates with QTP 8.2 SP1, QTP 8.2 SP2, QTP 9.0, QTP 9.1 and QTP 9.2. To check the compatibility of your QTP version, check out the ReadMe that comes pre-installed with QTP

Q: Can we record Quality Center operations with QTP?

A: Yes, only with QC 9.2 and above. Use .NET Add-in.

Q: Can we schedule a test run from Quality Center?

A: Yes, use ‘Test Run Scheduler’ utility that comes with QC.

Q: Is there version control in QC with QTP?

A: Yes, QTP 10.0 provides you the version control feature under the name of Quality Center Version Control present under File Menu. Earlier versions of QTP can work with 3rd party version control tools.

Q: I am a beginner to Quality Center. Is there any help available?

A: Yes. Check this site on Quality Center. It has many step-by-step articles to Learn Quality Center.

56 comments ↓

#1 Nidhish on 04.27.09 at 20:15

Nice article.. thanks ankur for providing this informative article.

Thanks,
Nidhish.

#2 suresh on 04.27.09 at 21:01

this is useful

#3 Kapil on 04.27.09 at 21:39

Its is really very useful

#4 Ravinder on 04.27.09 at 22:33

thanks ankur, to post the very informative artical.

#5 Rashmi on 04.27.09 at 23:00

Its really a nice and informative article. Thanks Ankur for this info….

#6 suresh babu on 04.27.09 at 23:57

Great ankur, this is good contribution to QTP family

#7 Diwakar on 04.28.09 at 00:17

Hi Ankur,
Thanks for this info, In my current project we are trying to insert defect in TD through QTP (AOM) but we didn’t succeed.Do you have any idea on this

#8 Anand on 04.28.09 at 02:00

thanks Ankur for the information…

#9 Keerthana on 04.28.09 at 05:17

Hi Ankur,
Thanks Ankur for sharing your knowledge. I have a request, I am a beginner and I am getting lot of calls but everywhere they are asking more about networks and server side questions. Where ever I am working they are not intersted in explaining about these so how can I get more/indepth knowledge about the mobile application.
Please guide me how to get the domain knowldge like pharma/validation, finance….etc.

Thanks,
Kerrthana.

#10 Adi on 04.28.09 at 20:52

Dear Ankur, it is good article and also very useful to every one, thanks for posting

Regards
Adi

#11 Sai on 05.07.09 at 19:29

Thank you very much Ankur, This is really helpful.

#12 Nandini on 05.13.09 at 00:56

Ankur

I’ve all the data(Libraryfiles, OR,TestData in the Quality Center) how can i import the data table from QC while running the script in QTP? I mean what path i have to mention? DataTable.ImportSheet ?

#13 vishal on 05.16.09 at 01:19

Hi Kapil,
first of all i want to say thanks for your wonderful comments. i am regular reader of your blogs.
i am download QTP(9.2) and work on basics.basically i have 4 years exp i manual testing now i want to learn more so pls tell me after basics of QTP what is next step. i urgently need a job in top MNC. so pls help me…

Waiting for your reply

Thanks in advance

#14 RAGHAVENDRA on 05.30.09 at 01:01

Dear Ankur,

Please help me how to learn QTP/QC with tutorial & ppt study material for the certification .

Thanks & Regards

Raghavendra

#15 shiva on 06.18.09 at 06:44

Hi Ankur,

Its gud.thanks for the info

#16 vasanth on 06.20.09 at 21:16

hi all

please inform me any testing jobs in your companies.

i have 3 yrs of exp .

#17 Harish on 07.30.09 at 06:54

This is very useful article

#18 Shrikant on 08.03.09 at 02:02

Hmmmmm gr8! Thnx Ankur

#19 Hariom Gupta on 08.12.09 at 20:48

Its really a knowledgeable artical…

#20 shobha on 09.11.09 at 02:35

Getting below Error when i try give run from test plan using QTP10.0

Test :
BAd DAta

please suggest some solution

#21 sanjay on 10.04.09 at 23:42

Very good arrticle… Thanks Ankur Sir

#22 Anand on 10.14.09 at 09:48

Good stuff, Thanks

#23 sumanth on 10.16.09 at 23:02

very good article …Thanks!!

#24 Charu on 10.31.09 at 18:11

Hello Ankur, can u plz tell me what to write in Server url area in the above . As I am new to testing plz do me a favor…

Thanks & Regards,
Charo

#25 kishore on 12.30.09 at 11:38

whats the probable launching date of QC 9.0 Can anybody focus on it?

#26 Skumar on 03.11.10 at 22:25

Great Ankur,

Today we just migrated to qc 10 which is first experience to me, so there weere many questions in my mind.
This article not only answered my questions but has more info.
People like you really helping us to ovecome hurdles in our day to day job responsibilties and in developing knowledge.
Trust me, these exp’s really builting up confidense that we can go any place , any project to work on and gain knowledge as we go on explore things.
Thank, Thanks, Thanks a lot.
God bless you.

#27 Kannan on 05.11.10 at 11:48

Ankur, Thank you so much for posting these details. Its really helpful.

#28 dembamita on 05.26.10 at 15:10

how to install QTP 9.2 at home and use for long time

#29 sunil on 06.01.10 at 12:43

This link is very help full for me.

#30 lemon on 06.09.10 at 12:09

can i ask something about QTP? im using qtp10 doing functional testing for a website.. i doing the recording well but after run the test i came out with this problem “Cannot identify the object “All Events” (of class Link). Verify that this object’s properties match an object currently displayed in your application” why did the run time error msg came out, suppose qtp already capture all the object properties etc during recodrding?? that software fail or test application fail??
i will write more next time but help me fix this problem first…… thank you :)

#31 swarupa on 09.02.10 at 09:59

i am looking for queries like how to upload scriptfrom QTP to QC and how to import a script from QC to QTP
and
how to export and import test cases from QTP to QC vice-versa

#32 sujith on 09.19.10 at 02:17

thanks Ankur. The Article is very informative.
I got a question. can we record Quality Center 9.2 work actions using QTP script. ie to automate the work flow script functions in QC. Eg: Create test case and particular user group is not able to pick a value in drop down.

#33 QTP 11: Complete List of New Features | Learn QTP on 09.19.10 at 03:07

[...] Improved test data management when integrated with Quality Center [...]

#34 Ravi on 09.22.10 at 19:54

Thanks for the good articale,

Can you please assit, how to connect qc without using qtp like using vb programming.

#35 Santosh on 11.11.10 at 18:01

Whenever i try to execute an automation script remotely from QC…i get ‘The RPC server is unavailable’ error….QC is in my local sys, QTP is in the VMware…when directly i try to ping to the VM ware from my local sys it opens….so is there still a possiblity for a firewall issue ??

#36 gangu on 12.01.10 at 07:26

Very helpful thank you

#37 Satya on 02.11.11 at 18:16

Hi Ankur,
Thanks for all above info its really Use full.
Apart from That I need the AOM sample script for Associating the Resources[like Obj Repo,.VBS,.QRS etc] to the scripts from QC to the Scripts.
Note:In this case u have to rake care of Connecting to QC,Taking the Test script with name from Test Plan of QC,Doing Check In Check Out,and then Associating the Resources to each Script.
Plz reply ASAP.I am critical need of that.

#38 Arun on 02.27.11 at 16:20

How to connect to QC from my laptop that too from my home and connection is wireless??
Thanks in Advance!!

Cheers, Arun

#39 Siva on 03.21.11 at 00:07

I am using QTP 10.0 and recently client gave QC tool access which is installed at client location. We are accessing it from offshore using URL provided by the client. Anybody please help me how to connect QC 10.0 with QTP 10.0.

#40 vijay on 05.22.11 at 21:09

HI i was trying to identify the QC objects using QTP 10.0, but i was unable to identify those even though i am having .net addin and java addin. can u please provide me the solution for this..
Regards,
Vijay Kumar P.

#41 mallikarjuna on 05.23.11 at 12:00

any new features come send those to my mail.already provided one is very good

#42 santhosh shinde on 06.21.11 at 18:28

Hi Ankur,

Really you are doing great work in helping others for learning QTP.

Thanks & Regards,
S.Santhosh

#43 Niijil on 06.22.11 at 22:37

Hi
I am looking for some assistance writing functions in hp QTP 11. I am trying to write a function that will recognize the difference between three values (YES, NO, Maybe). The function should call the other functions with the correct value and follow the step for each accordingly. I would really appreciate any assistance on this matter.

Thanks you.

#44 Moin Shareef on 07.23.11 at 04:01

Hi Ankur,

Please help me, how to capture the test data from graph(QC live analysis graph), and put it into an excel sheet.

Thanks in advance.

#45 Ian on 07.29.11 at 05:06

When raising a defect in QC, I would like to add standard headings (e.g Issue:, Expected Result, Actual Result, Steps to Replicate:) to appear each time a defect is raised. I have looked at the script editior under “defects module script but cannot determine where to update this. Hope this makes sense

#46 QTP Script Fails when Running the script from QC on 09.07.11 at 11:33

Hi Atul,
I have placed all the scripts in a Shared Folder and each script there is having different Actions Calls that sits externally to the Driver script. And all these scripts are then mapped to QC Tests. These scripts works perfectly fine for my Login to a system whether for Remote execution or for Local execution. But I am currently facing the below issues with these QTP Scripts when I login to a system (Computer) with some other login Id, I never encountered earlier:-
1> When I try to execute these scripts through QC, after logging-in to the system with some other login ID: I am always getting an error “You don’t have permissions to execute test”, and to resolve that I have to reopen that script in QTP and will have to always click on Check box there in QTP test Options “Enable to connect with other HP tools”.
a. Even after doing this when making second attempt to execute, I am getting the Execution error in QC as “Tool can not be opened”
2> When I manually try to open the same script From QC after logging-in to the system with some other login ID, the script is failing as automatically I am getting the value for Reporter.RunStatus =1 even before the script starts execution.
Due to these issues, the entire scripts have become my login Id dependent but I wished all these scripts to work independently of any one logs in to system.

Looking for help

#47 Gayatri on 09.08.11 at 00:24

I have a question. My QTP got connected to QC. When QC got connected i am not able to see any menu options , for example: if we select Help i am not able to see any options in QTP. How to get the menu options in QTP when QC is connected

#48 keerthana on 09.12.11 at 10:03

Hi ,

please let me know how to install QTP 11.0 trail version.

#49 santosh on 09.15.11 at 16:23

not able to connect between qc 9 and qtp 9.5 getting error enter server full address

#50 Anonymous on 10.11.11 at 17:49

Is it possible to link test cases with requirement in excel and upload the data in QC, so that we dont have to create it manually through QC.

#51 Som on 11.10.11 at 14:19

Hi All,

Can anyone let me know how to upload the test cases results from Excel into QC?

#52 arun on 11.30.11 at 17:15

HI,
how to launch qc in QTP with scripting statement
plz replay me

#53 v.k.swamy on 12.12.11 at 10:51

Hi,

Can any one let me know how to export test cases from QC 10.0 to Excel.

#54 ashish on 12.16.11 at 18:36

can any one help me get a job in sw testing

#55 rohit on 01.09.12 at 20:44

hi,

i have a test set with 1000 test cases in it.
i need to mark these test cases as passed, mentioning the log file name in the test case run.

Is there a way i can automate this using QTP

#56 pavan on 01.25.12 at 13:28

http://mercuryquicktestprofessional.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-run-qtp-scripts-at-scheduled.html

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