QTP online training

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QuickTest Professional
I) Introduction
1) Test Automation
2) Disadvantages of Manual Testing
3) Advantages of Test Automation
4) Drawbacks of Test Automation
5) Types of Test Automation
6) Functional Test Automation
7) Types of Test Tool
8) Functional & Regression Testing Tools
9) History of QTP
10)Basic Features of QTP
11) Installation process of QTP
II) QuickTest Window / Key Elements of QTP
1) Test Pane
2) Active Screen
3) Data Table
4) Debug viewer
5) Information pane
6) Missing Resources pane
7) QTP Tool bars
8) QTP Menu items / QTP commands
9) Tool Settings
III) Object Repository
1) Software objects
2) Types of object in QTP
a) Runtime Objects
b) Test Objects
c) Utility Objects
d) Automation Objects
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3) Object Repository
a) Local Repository
b) Shared Repository
4) Operations on Object Repository
a) Adding Objects
b) Renaming Objects
c) Deleting Objects
d) Associating Object Repositories to an Action
e) Exporting Local Objects
f) Merging Repositories
g) View Options
h) Spying Objects
i) Importing and Exporting Repositories using XML
IV) QTP Testing Process
5) Planning
a) Analyzing the AUT
b) Implementing Automation Framework
c) Creating/Selecting Test cases
d) Collecting Test Data
e) Object Identification Configuration
Normal Identification
Mandatory Properties
Assertive Properties
Smart Identification
Base filter Properties
Option filter properties
Ordinal Identifier
Making Tool Settings Global
6) Generating the basic Test
a) Recording
i. Normal Recording
ii. Analog Recording
iii. Low Level Recording
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iv. Record and Run Settings
b) Keyword driven methodology/Shared object repository
method/Preparing the script manually
c) Descriptive programming/Programmatic Descriptions
Entering Programmatic Descriptions Directly into Statements
Using Description Objects for Programmatic Descriptions
Retrieving Child Objects
Using the Index Property in Programmatic Descriptions
Creating Checkpoints Programmatically
7) Enhancing the Test
a) Inserting Check points
i. Standard Checkpoint
ii. Text Checkpoint
iii. Text Area Checkpoint
iv. Bitmap Checkpoint
v. Database Checkpoint
vi. Accessibility Checkpoint
vii. XML Checkpoint (From Application)
viii. XML Checkpoint (From Resource)
ix. Page Checkpoint
x. Image Checkpoint
xi. Table Checkpoint
b) Inserting Output values
i. Standard Output value
ii. Text Output value
iii. Text Area Output value
iv. Database Output value
v. XML Output value (From Resource)
c) Adding Comments
d) Synchronization
i. Inserting Wait Statement
ii. Inserting Synchronization Point
iii. Increasing Tool Default Synchronization Time
iv. Sync method (only for web)
v. Selecting appropriate method
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e) Parameterization
i. Data Driven Testing through Loop statements
ii. Dynamic Test Data Submission through Looping
iii. Data Driven Testing through Data Table
iv. Importing Test Data from External files
v. Creating a Database, Tables and Entering Data
vi. Creating DSN
vii. Importing Test Data from Databases
f) Inserting Programmatic statements
i. Inserting Conditional Statements
ii. Inserting Loop statements
iii. Using VB Script Built-in Functions
g) Generating steps through Step Generator
h) Inserting Transaction points
Start Transaction
End Transaction
i) Enhancing Tests with the windows API
8) Debugging the Test
a) Debug Commands
Step Into
Step Over
Step Out
b) Inserting/Removing Brake Points
c) Watching variables
d) Changing Variable values
9) Running the Test
a) Normal execution
b) Test Batch execution
Test batch formation
Batch execution
Partial Batch execution
10)Analyzing the Test Results
a) Test Result Viewer
b) Analyzing Test Results
c) Exporting Test Results
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d) Test Results Deletion
11)Reporting Defects
a) Manual Defect Reporting
b) Tool based Defect Reporting
c) Integration with Quality Center
V) QTP Other Features
1) Regular expressions
2) Environment Variables
Built-in Variables
User Defined Variables
Defining, modifying and associating environment variables
3) Methods
a) QTP Methods
b) VB Script Methods
4) Actions
Types of actions
Non-reusable Actions
Re-Usable actions
External Actions
Creating an Action
Splitting Actions
Renaming an Action
Deleting an Action
Making an Reusable/Non-Reusable
Calling an existing Action
Copying an Actions
Action Parameters
5) Functions
Preparing Procedures
Associating Procedures to QTP tests
Modifying Procedures
Calling Procedures
6) Dynamic Handling of Object Repositories
Loading Repositories directly through Utility Object
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Finding Repository Position
Removing Repositories
7) Data Driven Testing through Scripting
Importing Data from Flat files
Importing Data from spread sheets
Importing Data from Databases
Ms Access
SQL Server
Oracle
8) File System Operations
File system Object
Creating Files
Reading Data
Writing Data
Creating Folders
Creating Drives
9) Recovery Scenarios
Trigger events
Pop-Up window
Object State
Test Run Error
Application Crash
Recovery Operations
Keyboard or Mouse Operation
Close Application Process
Function Call
Restart Microsoft Windows
Creating Recovery Scenarios
Associating Recovery Scenarios
10)Virtual Object Configuration
Virtual Object Manager
Defining a Virtual Object
Removing or Disabling Virtual Object Definitions
11)Test Automation Frameworks
Automation Framework
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Record & Playback or Linear Framework
Modular Driven framework
Keyword Driven framework
Hybrid driven Framework
12)Automation Object Model
VI) VB Script for QTP
1) Introduction
a) Introducing VB Script
b) Windows Script Host (WSH)
c) Crating a script with Note pad
d) Hosting Environments & Script engines
e) Available Script engines
2) Comments
a) Purpose of Comments
b) Syntax
c) Comment/Uncomment a block of statements
3) VB Script Variables
a) Declaring Variables
b) Option Explicit Statement
c) Naming restrictions for Variables
d) Scope of Variables
e) Life time of Variables
f) Assigning values to Variables
g) Scalar Variables and Array Variables
h) Dimensional Arrays
i) Dynamic Arrays
4) VB Script Data Types
a) Variant Sub types
5) VB Script Operators
a) Operator precedence
b) Arithmetic Operators
c) Comparison Operators
d) Concatenation Operators
e) Logical Operators
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6) Input/Output Operations
a) Inputbox Function
b) Msgbox Function
7) Constants
a) Creating Constants
b) Using Constants
c) Modifying Constants
12)Conditional Statements
a) If…Then…Else Statement
b) Select Case Statement
c) Making Decisions Using If...Then...Else
d) Running a Statement if a Condition is True (single statement)
e) Running Statements if a Condition is True (multiple statements)
f) Running Certain Statements if a Condition is True and Running Others
if a Condition is False
g) Deciding Between Several Alternatives
h) Executing a certain block of statements when two / more conditions
are True (Nested If...)
i) Making Decisions with Select Case
j) Other Examples
13)Looping Through Code
a) Loop statements
b) Do Loops
c) While…wend statement
d) For…Next statement
e) For Each…Next statement
14)Other Statements
15)Procedures
a) Sub Procedures
b) Function Procedures
c) Getting Data into and out of procedures
d) Using Sub and Function procedures in code
16)VB Script Built-in Functions
a) Conversions
b) Dates/Times
c) Formatting Strings
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d) Input/Output
e) Math
f) Miscellaneous
g) Rounding
h) Strings
i) Variants
17)Methods
18)Objects
ADODB connection
Dictionary
Excel Application
File system Object
Network
Shell
Word Application
XML Document
19)Classes
20)Keywords
21)Errors
VB Script Runtime Errors
VB script Syntax Errors
1) VBScript syntax rules and guidelines
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