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Vertical text selection in QTP IDE

May 13th, 2009 by Yaron Assa
     4 votes, average: 5 out of 54 votes, average: 5 out of 54 votes, average: 5 out of 54 votes, average: 5 out of 54 votes, average: 5 out of 5
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Barak Kinarty shares a very useful QTip on pefroming vertical text selection in QTP’s IDE.

Adding a Call-Chain Mechanism to QTP

December 8th, 2008 by Yaron Assa
     3 votes, average: 5 out of 53 votes, average: 5 out of 53 votes, average: 5 out of 53 votes, average: 5 out of 53 votes, average: 5 out of 5
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A common frustrating experience is having your script pop-up an error dialog in some long-forgotten function, without one having the slightest clue in its regard. What usually follows is a series of trial-and-error breakpoint runs to determine which action the script was actually trying to perform when executing the function call that triggered the error. A mechanism that can facilitate debugging such situations (which VBScript and QTP lack out-of-the-box) is call a Call-Chain / Call-Stack. This article explains the general principles needed to implement such a mechanism in QTP.

The Fastest Way to Work with GUI Objects

December 4th, 2008 by Yaron Assa
     8 votes, average: 4.88 out of 58 votes, average: 4.88 out of 58 votes, average: 4.88 out of 58 votes, average: 4.88 out of 58 votes, average: 4.88 out of 5
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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.

Change QTP’s Automatic Object-Naming Convention

November 17th, 2008 by Yaron Assa
     3 votes, average: 5 out of 53 votes, average: 5 out of 53 votes, average: 5 out of 53 votes, average: 5 out of 53 votes, average: 5 out of 5
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Have you ever got frustrated with the arbitrary names QTP gives to test-objects?
When you want it to take the name from the “HTML ID”, it takes it from the the object’s “CLASS”; when you want it to take the “PROG ID”, it takes it from the “NATIVECLASS”; and in general, it seems that QTP has […]

Change the Maximum Length of GUI Objects’ Logical Names

November 15th, 2008 by Yaron Assa
     1 votes, average: 3 out of 51 votes, average: 3 out of 51 votes, average: 3 out of 51 votes, average: 3 out of 51 votes, average: 3 out of 5
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Have you ever wanted a little extra room for your objects’ logical names?

Well, now you can use all the room you’d like by using this QTip!

Running QTP on 64bit .NET Applications

June 24th, 2008 by Yaron Assa
     2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 52 votes, average: 4.5 out of 52 votes, average: 4.5 out of 52 votes, average: 4.5 out of 52 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5
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This QTip, by Benny Abergel, will allow you to automate most 64Bit .Net Applications with QTP, even though QTP cannot record 64Bit applications!

Changing Script Input Data “On the Fly”

June 4th, 2008 by Yaron Assa
     2 votes, average: 3 out of 52 votes, average: 3 out of 52 votes, average: 3 out of 52 votes, average: 3 out of 52 votes, average: 3 out of 5
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This article explains how to input new data into the script during runtime, without hanging the script execution flow.

Set a custom directory for QTP tests

April 25th, 2008 by Yaron Assa
     6 votes, average: 4.5 out of 56 votes, average: 4.5 out of 56 votes, average: 4.5 out of 56 votes, average: 4.5 out of 56 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5
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This QTip will show you how to change QTP’s default test directory, thus freeing you from endlessly browsing for the relevant directory whenever you save / open a test.

Changing License Type

April 7th, 2008 by daniva
     2 votes, average: 3 out of 52 votes, average: 3 out of 52 votes, average: 3 out of 52 votes, average: 3 out of 52 votes, average: 3 out of 5
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Need to change license type from “concurrent” to “seat” or from “seat” to “concurrent”?

Minimize QTP

April 6th, 2008 by daniva
     8 votes, average: 3.63 out of 58 votes, average: 3.63 out of 58 votes, average: 3.63 out of 58 votes, average: 3.63 out of 58 votes, average: 3.63 out of 5
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Sometimes when QTP is running the QTP application is in front of the AUT. and you can’t see what is happening on the AUT.