December 12th, 2009 by 
Yaron Assa 
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July 22nd, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...I attended a briefing event on Visual Studio Team System 2010 today (22/7). The event was focused on the testing features of Visual Studio 2010, and while it only scratched the surface, it made quite an impression on me, and made me realize the Microsoft has finally pulled a potential “Quality Center Killer” from their labs.
Not only that, but the new Visual Studio 2010 has some killer-features which even compete with HP’s QTP; And while Microsoft tools are focused on .Net applications, in that specific arena, QTP doesn’t come out as a clear winner. In fact, even from the short brief I saw, QTP even lost on a couple of rounds.
July 22nd, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...As reported previously, HP has been working on solving many of the problems in QTP 10 Debugger; And now the long awaited patch is finally here!
July 11th, 2009 by Yaron Assa 
Loading ...If you had to chance to work extensively with QTP 10 debugger, you must have noticed that it isn’t as robust as QTP 9.5 debugger.
These problems have been an inconvenience to some, and a deal-breaker to others – and they will be addressed in an upcoming patch from HP, to be released in the near future.
July 11th, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Solmar Knowledge Networks and Tescom (TASE:TSCM)– a leading QA services company in Israel, have signed a distribution agreement for Solmar Career tracks courses in Israel.
July 8th, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Yaron Assa and Meir Bar-Tal will attend HP Software Universe Israel today (08/07/09). We’ll be tweeting live from the convention here: http://twitter.com/yassa
We would be more than happy to meet up with AdvancedQTP’s readers, so if you’re there, please come by and say hello, we’ll be near the Tescom and OmniSys booths.
July 7th, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...This article presents a workaround that allows you to override QTP’s Reporter.ReportEvent command with your own custom implementation, without having to rewrite all the report commands in your existing code.
June 27th, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Thanks to the great efforts of Sergey Talalaev, one of our more popular tutorials – Descriptive Programming in 60 slides – is now available in Russian.
Enjoy!
June 23rd, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Dani Vainstein had attended HP Software Universe 09, and would like to thank all who stopped by to say hello.
Dani represented Solmar Knowledge Networks, along with Cortechs Inc. and OmniSys, showcasing Solmar professional courses, and OmniTest – the keyword driven automation solution for manual testers.
May 26th, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...I’ve attended SIGIST’s (Israeli testing forum) convention (26/5) on performance and load testing. As with HP’s last convention, I’ve twitted live during the presentations, and here are these tweets.
March 30th, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Today HP has held a conference (30/3) regarding the release of Quicktest Profesisonal 10, Quality Center 10 and LoadRunner 9.5.
While the presentations did not present a detailed account of the products (due to severe time constraints), you may find my live twitter notes helpful (enter to read the notes).
March 26th, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Ayal Cohen – the functional architect of QTP in HP Software R&D – would like you to spend a few minutes answering a short survey. It would allow HP to design better, more relevant versions of QTP, that will benefit us all.
We thank Ayal for his efforts to help and serve the QTP community, as well as for approaching AdvancedQTP’s worldwide community in this endeavor. In behalf of the AdvancedQTP team – Please go ahead and answer the survey.
February 7th, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...After a few years of passively complaining about QTP’s Editor problems, I’ve decided to see if I could somehow write my QTP tests in Visual Studio .Net. It would solve both the editor problems (Visual Studio provides a wonderful IDE), as well as QTP’s deeper programming problems (.Net languages are fully fledged object-oriented language, with rich error handling, debugging, and other cool features).
This article describes building a proof-of-concept brdige between Visual Studio and QTP, which would allow us to manipulate GUI objects from Visual-Studio, just as we would from QTP.
While building a robust, viable bridge is far more complex than the proof of concept, it is indeed possible. Ready to step through the looking-glass?
January 21st, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...I have recently spent over a day of frustrating debugging until I’ve finally stumbled upon a QTP bug which cause all my problems; so I thought I’d share it with the QTP community, hoping it would save someone else’s precious time and money.
January 10th, 2009 by Yaron Assa Loading ...In this article I describe a very strange problem related to working with .Net objects via thier Runtime Objects.
December 18th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Update: this is an article from the old site that wasn’t transferred to the new one. So here it is:
In past few days, the question whether it is “Kosher” to change the run-time properties of the AUT (application under test) was given new life in SQAForums (e.g. here). It’s a tough question, that calls for serious discussion.
December 4th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...So, what’s the fastest way for working with GUI objects? It seems that everyone has an opinion on the matter – some insist the Object-Repository yields the best results, while others are strong advocates for working with Descriptive Programming. Well, I thought we’d better settle this once and for all, and test the matter (more or less) scientifically.
October 10th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Our Class Inheritance Parser has just received a major update. Among the changes is the support for Constructor Arguments.
Most programming languages allow you to pass parameters when you create an instance of your class. These are called constructor arguments. VBScript’s constructor (the Class_Initialize sub) can not receive parameters, so usually we must resort to solutions as a “Build” or “Start” sub, in addition to the actual constructor, in order to relay the parameters.
Well, No more! The class parser allows support for constructor arguments in the most native and fluent manner.
September 16th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Hey all,
We’ve been experiencing some problems with our server’s DNS resolve mechanism. To put it less enigmatically, the site was down for several hours, and we’re not sure we’re out of the woods just yet.
We’re working on the problem (or rather, our tech support is), and hope the issue will be resolved soon.
In the meanwhile, we apologize for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
Solmar Knowledge Networks – AdvancedQTP’s staff.
September 4th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...I’ve been doing some digging into QTP’s test-objects, hoping to find some undocumented methods and techniques. Armed with the power of PDM.DLL, I’ve explored each test object, and have come up with these interesting results, all of which don’t show up on your regular intellisense autocomplete.
August 16th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Solmar Knowledge Networks attended HP software’s Israeli CAB meeting. We were presented with a quite advanced version of QTP 10 – Atlantis , and unlike the presentation given at HP Software Universe, this was an actual live presentation, which gave us a closer look at some of the features and rumors around the version. Here are our impressions.
July 23rd, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...HP will integerate a feature developed by Tarun Lalwani in the next release of QTP.
July 6th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Tarun Lalwani has created a very interesting tool, that can offer a real improvement to QTP programmers - a resizer for the QTP intellisense popup.
July 5th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...AdvancedQTP is happy to announce a new site feature – The first chat service to the QTP community!
July 2nd, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...A review of the Israeli HP Universe convention, and the new features in QTP 10 (code named - Atlantis).
June 30th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Join us at the Israeli HP Universe Event
June 28th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...The DataTable is one of QTP’s main features, and a central tool in automating test and creating test iterations.
Now you can test your knowledge regarding it usage, logic and purpose.
June 20th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...QTP starts crashing your Internet Explorer? It might be time to uninstall your firewall.
June 4th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...This article explains how to input new data into the script during runtime, without hanging the script execution flow.
May 27th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Will Roden from the Software Inquisition writes about a major undocumented feature in QTP, which allows you to reuse references to web-objects even after the page loads.
May 7th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...HP have released a new patch, which allows QTP 9.2 users to open QTP 9.5.
May 4th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Our articles no longer contains “smart quotes”; You can now copy code from the articles directly into QTP.
May 2nd, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...HP has released (30/4) a new Add-In for QTP 9.5 - the Delphi Add-In. The new add-in supports controls and objects in the Delphi environment (obviously), and, loyal to the new extensibility trend of QTP, offers the ability to write extensibilities for new controls and objects.
April 29th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...For those of you who are using Twitter, keeping track with AdvancedQTP updates is now easier than ever!
April 21st, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Neat RSS trick that will allow you to better focus your AdvancedQTP’s RSS feeds.
April 17th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...
Well, of course I’m lying (sort-of). QTP can’t really run natively on Macs.
However, this picture was really captured on my new MacBook-Pro laptop, and I really had QTP running on it (just like I’m writing this post from Windows-Live-Writer on it). No Photoshop tricks were involved (other than converting the image to JPG).
The […]
April 5th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...We’ve been experiencing several bugs due to the latest site upgrade. One of the more critical bugs caused all forum files to seem corrupted; and we’re glad to report that we’ve finally managed to resolved it.
However, if you’ve already downloaded the corrupted files, your browser might not re-download the working ones, but use the already […]
April 3rd, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...Well, it has been a hectic week, and a crazy few hours, but it seems that the new AdvancedQTP site is up and running!
You can read a little on the new site’s features in this FAQ.
I think the upgrade has been quite smooth (in comparison to other upgrades and cut-offs I’ve seen), and the new […]
March 30th, 2008 by Yaron Assa Loading ...This blog will contain some random thoughts and observations, both professional and personal.
I hope you’ll join me for the ride :)
Yaron.
