WinRunner to QTP migration notes (2)
Integrity Support of XML, ADO, DotNET, and other services through COM is a greatest advantage of QTP. In WinRunner, there was only an awkward workaround of placing external calls through “dos_system”...
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Hardware Requirements QTP is much more greedy on resources. Don’t plan to reuse your old WinRunner machines. You’ll have to retire them with WinRunner. Give at least twice as more RAM than recommended...
View ArticleOn Functional Decomposition
For Test Automation, Functional Decomposition is a test flow analysis and test design technique. And yet somehow it is often confused with structural programming. Decomposition of Test Flow Applying...
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Error Handling In WinRunner, every GUI function returns result – an integer value. Checking status of an operation is as simple as single line: rc = edit_set(edit,value); if (rc != E_OK) {...
View ArticleAutomation that sucks
A company hired another “automated tester”… Process description In the nutshell, the actual job description is: Bring up an application-under-test Start “testing” script Babysit “testing” script, i.e....
View ArticleQuick questions – quick answers
Quick Answers Quick answers to questions arrived into my blog recently. How to load GUI map in QTP during run-time? Use methods of RepositoriesCollection object: Find / Add / Remove. See sample code,...
View ArticleTestComplete Type Casting
TestComplete Type Casting in VBScript: It’s a bug! In computer science, type conversion or typecasting refers to changing an entity of one data type into another. This is done to take advantage of...
View ArticleMy Path In Exploratory Testing
Although it seems like just happened yesterday, it’s been well over a quarter since I took the course of Rapid Software Testing by Michael Bolton (the course is authored by James Bach and Michael...
View ArticleShadow Work In Testing. Automation
This writing is a cross-reference to the post Manage Focus Of Your Attention with regards to the concept of Shadow Work. A quick reminder. In economics, shadow work refers to unpaid labor in the form...
View ArticleFun Fact
Well, it’s November 2015 and I learned that my site made to Top 5 “Test Automation” blogs in 2014 as per TEST BUFFET. What I find funny is that my site isn’t included in Software Testing at all. We...
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