Usually this happens in large scale regression testing where the length of your script is quite long. In that case there are possibilities that your script stuck somewhere in between and exits abnormally. In that case QTP is not able to finish up the entire required things to populate the test result.
We recently migrated to McAfee anti virus solutions. McAfee some with a host of security features along with Intrusion Prevention System (IPS). It seems IPS is not compatible with QuickTest. If you try to open IE7 while QuickTest is already open, IPS will kill the IE7 process.
pal_drv.sys is the system driver that may be the culprit for your frequent QTP crash issues. This driver was developed was text-recognition mechanism that QTP doesn’t support now. You need to uninstall this driver and here is how:
I am recording using QTP and for some reason QTP does not recognize any upload buttons. Use Web Event Recording Configuration to solve this issue.
With QTP 9.2 and earlier, we use to run the .bat file present under QuickTest Professional/bin folder and it took care of the unregistered, corrupted DLL’s. In 9.5 there is no such bat file present under that folder.
Be careful while using SystemUtil.Run method. Quick Test Professional (QTP) To open applications using QTP.
