Explain Quick Test Professional (QTP) Testing process?

The quick test professional is a software package that facilitates both the test automation as well as the software testing. To be an expert in quick test professional it is important that you understand both the test automation and software testing using the quick test professional. 

When the software testing process is carried out using the quick test professional it is referred to as the quick test professional test process. By now you must have got it that the emphasis of this article is on the same testing process. 

To say the quick test professional testing process constitutes of the following steps as mentioned below:

1. Configuring of the record and run settings
2. Creating an object repository (this step is optional is many cases)
3. Creating the basic automation scripts
4. Editing or enhancing the script
5. Executing the script
6. Debugging the script
7. Analyzing the results
8. Summarizing the results (this includes tracking the discovered defects and generating the report)

Major stages of the QTP testing process

1. Analyzation of the application

- This is the first test and is aimed at finding your testing needs. 

- This phase involves the type determination of the development environment of your application i.e., whether it is a web application or a windows application. 

- In either of the cases, you will need to load your quick test professional software with appropriate add ins. 

- There are available separated add – ins for both the web type and windows type applications. 

- These add – ins are required since they only give the power to quick test professional to identify as well work with the objects present in the application. - Next thing to determine are the business processes and functionality required. 

- For determining these two things you need to think about what your customer will do with the application. 

- The required business processes are then divided in to smaller groups or units and the actions based on these units are created. 

- This is done so because with smaller modular actions it becomes easy to read, follow and maintain the tests in the long term.

2. Preparation of the testing infrastructure: 

- Based on the needs that you determined in the first phase, the resources required are determined in this second phase. 

- The resources are either obtained or created as required. 

- The resources may include the following:

      a)   Object repositories along with the test objects.

      b)   Function libraries along with the functions that add to functionality of the quick test professional and so on.

- Also in this phase the settings of the quick test professional are configured as per the tasks need to be performed.

3. Building of the tests and addition of the steps to them: 

- By now the testing infrastructure is complete and now you can start developing your tests. 

- Any number of empty tests can be created and actions can be added to them so as to form the testing skeletons. 

- Relevant actions can be associated with the corresponding object repositories.

- Relevant tests can be associated with the function libraries. 

- Steps can be inserted with the help of key words and test preferences are also considered.

4. Enhancement of the test: 

- This phase includes insertion of the checkpoints so that you can easily search for a specific value of object, page or text etc and know whether or not your application is functioning properly.

5. Debugging, execution and analyzation of the test: 

- This phase ensures that the application is working without encountering any interruption. 

- Only if a test is running properly, it can correctly check the behavior of the application.

6. Reporting of the defects: 

- The defects discovered can be reported to the quality center if you have it installed on your machine.