QTP recording flow

QTP
Quick Test Professional

QTP is a functional testing tool. It is very case sensitive.

It has 3 levels of recording.

1) Normal recording
2) Analog recording
3) Low level recording

95% of it will be done on Normal Recording.

QTP has 3 panes.

1) Test pane
2) Test details pane
3) Debug viewer pane

Test pane has 2 views.

a) Expert view ( Where we Record, Run, Debug & Design)
b) Tree view or Keyboard view (Where we do the Splits)

Test details pane – Action screen (where we can see the screen shots and the result as “Done” or “Pass”)

Debug viewer pane – Expressions & variables

Besides that it has Data Table View or Global sheet: - Parameterization

Start up

1 Click on QTP icon on your desktop.
2 When the box opens make sure; - “Active x”, “Web” & “Show on start up” is checked.
3 Click “OK”.
4 “Record Run Setting” window appears.
5 Click on the radio button “Open the following browser when a record & run session begins”.
6 Check the box “Close the browser when the test is closed”.
7 Write the URL on the address box and click “OK”.
8 When the page opens up click on 3 or 4 links and “Stop” recording.
9 Put “Comments”. To do that click on “Insert”,- “Comment” and then write the comment as “Type www.yahoo.com “and the main page opens and click on to “Auto”. In QTP both links come up on the first script so we have to mention both the links in the first comment. So on all the links will have link with main page and they all have to have comment.
Ø Then we must “Design”. To design we click on to the icon “Start transaction” and write “Yahoo-Auto” and enter and same way “End transaction”
Ø Go to Keyboard view/Tree view, highlight the “Action”, right click and “Rename” and save it. Also save the “file” with the same name.

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