1.Introduction

  Overview of Test Automation

• Ways of Testing
• Disadvantages of Manual Testing
• Advantages of Test Automation
• Drawbacks of Test Automation
• Test Automation
• Types of Test Automation
• Functional Test Automation
• Types of Test Tool
• History of QTP
• Basic Features of QTP
• The installation process of QTP

  Basic Features of QTP 

• General FrameWork to learn any Automated Tool
• Types of Automated Tools
• Version History

QTP Test Process 

• Planning
• Generating Basic Tests
• Enhancing Tests
• Debugging Tests
• Running Tests
• Analyzing Test Results
• Reporting Defects

2.Key Elements of QTP 

  Key Elements of QTP

• Test Pane
• Active Screen
• Data Table
• Debug Viewer Pane
• Tool Options

  Recording & Running Tests

• Record and Run Settings
• Recording Process
• Running Process
• Recording Modes

3.Object Repository

  Software objects

  Types of the object in QTP

• Runtime Objects
• Test Objects

  Object Repository

• Local Repository
• Shared Repository

  Operations on Object Repository

• Adding Objects
• Renaming Objects
• Deleting Objects
• Associating Object Repositories to an Action
• Exporting Local Object
• View Options
• Spying Objects

  Keyword driven methodology

• Generating Tests Manually through Expert view
• Generating Steps through Keyword view

4.Object Identification Configurations

• Normal Identification
• Mandatory Properties
• Assertive Properties
• Smart Identification
• Base filter Properties
• Option filter properties
• Ordinal Identifier

5.Checkpoints & Output Values

  Inserting Checkpoints

• Standard Checkpoint
• Text Checkpoint
• Text Area Checkpoint
• Bitmap Checkpoint
• Database Checkpoint
• Accessibility Checkpoint
• XML Checkpoint

  Inserting Output values

• Standard Output value
• Text Output value
• Text Area Output value
• Database Output value
• XML Output value

6.Parameterization and Synchronization

  Synchronization

• Definition

  Where Synchronization is required:

• Process

  Ways of synchronization

• Inserting the synchronization point
• Increasing the default time/ Increasing Tool default synchronization time
• Inserting the wait statement

  Parameterization

• Definition
• Process

  Ways of Parameterization

   1. Through data driver wizard

   2. Through keyword view

   3. Manually

7.Actions, Environment Variables

  Actions

  Types of actions

• Non-reusable Actions
• Re-Usable actions
• External Actions
  • Creating an Action
  • Splitting Actions
  • Renaming an Action
  • Deleting an Action
  • Making a Reusable/Non-Reusable
  • Calling an existing Action

  Environment Variables

• Built-in Variables
• User Defined Variables
• Defining, modifying and associating environment variables

8. Transaction Points, Adding Comments

• Start Transaction & End Transaction
• Timer Function
• Defining Test Results

  Adding Comments

• Purpose of Comments
• Comment a Block of Statements
• Uncomment a Block

9.Debugging Tests, Batch Testing

  Debug Commands & Break Points

• Step Into
• Step Over
• Step Out

  Automation Object Model

• Automating Quick Test Operations

10. Recovery Scenarios

  Recovery Scenarios

  Trigger events

• Pop-Up window
• Object State
• Test Run Error
• Application Crash

11. Built-In Functions/ Inserting the Programmatic statements

• Comments
• Utility statements
• Normal statements (or) Object calls
• Conditional statements
• Looping statements

12. File system object

  File system Object

• Creating Files
• Reading Data
• Writing Data
• Creating Folders

13. Regular Expressions

• Understanding & Using Regular Expressions
• Handling Dynamic Objects
• Defining Regular Expressions

14. Batch Testing

• Test Batch Runner
• Creating Test Batches
• Providing permission to Test Batch Runner
• Running Test Batches
• Running Partial Batches

15. Introduction, Basic Framework

• Automation Framework, Types of Framework
• Creating Folder Structure
• Creating & Storing Automation Resources
• Organizing & Managing Resources
• Generating Driver Scripts
• Generating Initialization Script (AOM Script)

  1.Linear Frame Work

  2.Modular FrameWork /Reusable actions

  3.User-defined Functions/Keyword driven Frame Work

  4.Data-Driven Frame Work

  5.Hybrid Frame Work

16. Introduction, QTP Scripting

• QTP Descriptive Programming for QTP
•  VB Script for QTP

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  OTHER DEFECT TRACKING TOOLS:

• Bugzilla 
• MD tracker