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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.

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Solmar Knowledge Networks is proud to announce a new channel - "Mastering the Web" - to be delivered exclusively by www.AdvancedQTP.com. The channel was designed for automation professionals of all levels of knowledge and expertise who are eager to specialize in the web environment.
To give you a taste of things to come, a demo of the channel will be available free for the community throughout the coming month. The demo contains only a fraction of the full channel’s material, but it will give you the opportunity to see the quality, depth, and scope of the channel.
Read the full statement to enter the Demo.

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Andrew Marin has shared the following QTip, which allows us to quickly and effectively delete all cookies in Internet Explorer.
This can be of great help to anyone who handles multiple user sessions during his tests, or just wants to reset the test environment before starting a test run.

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Firebug is the most advanced free web analysis tool to date. While some of its functionality may resemble IE development toolbar (reviewed here), its scope, extra features and attention to details make it invaluable both to QA personal and web-designers. It’s fair to say that the only advantage IE development toolbar has over Firebug, is

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While some of a WebElement’s style properties are available via it’s Test-Object properties (e.g. its height, visibility etc.), a lot of its visual styling is left unknown to QTP. This can be overcome via its Runtime .CurrentStyle property. For example, this WebElement is the welcome header of AdvancedQTP’s main page: 'Grabe the WebElement Set oWebElement

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The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. a Must tool for QTP Web users. Overview The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to: Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of

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Will Roden from the Software Inquisition writes about a major undocumented feature in QTP, which could potentially allow you to write far more elegant test than though possible to date. One of the more frustrating limitations of QTP web test objects was that they went out of sync whenever the webpage reloaded. This means that

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Anshoo Arora has a great QTip for saving a file via Internet Explorer. This will produce similar results to manually right-clicking a link and choosing “Save as”: 'Simulate a web query Set WinHttp = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1") If WinHttp Is Nothing Then Set WinHttp = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest") WinHttp.Open "GET", "http://www.website.com/Documnet_i_want_to_save.pdf", False WinHttp.Send 'Get the response arrArray = WinHttp.ResponseBody

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Barak Kinarti has kindly contributed an extremely useful QTip on how to identify Web objects through their Runtime Attributes. I assume that the reader is familiar with using Test-Object properties to describe QTP objects programmatically (you can refresh your memory on the technique here). Here below a typical example is shown: Set ImgDesc = Description.Create

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If the world was perfect, our application would have unique, well named controls. More often than not, though, our applications are a mess of unordered controls, who are deemed non-standard by QTP. In the worst cases, we’re stuck with unnamed non-unique controls, who are only identified by their infamous Index property.
This article will detail an effective approach to robustly automate web controls even in these hard cases.

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