Mercury QuickTest Professional- Features - Benefits

Mercury QuickTest Professional-
Features & Benefits
• Ensure immediate return on investment through industry-leading ease of use and pre-configured environment support.
• Operate stand-alone, or integrated into Mercury Business Process Testing and Mercury Quality Center.
• Introduce next-generation "zero-configuration" Keyword Driven testing technology in QuickTest Professional — allowing for fast test creation, easier maintenance, and more powerful data-driving capability.
• Promote collaboration and sharing of test assets among testing groups through enterprise class object repository.
• Identify objects with Unique Smart Object Recognition, even if they change from build to build, enabling reliable unattended script execution.
• Manage multiple object repositories with ease to facilitate the building of automation frameworks and libraries.
• Handle unforeseen application events with Recovery Manager, facilitating 24x7 testing to meet test project deadlines.
• Reduce time to resolve defects by automatically reproducing defects and identify problems with the built-in test execution recorder.
• Collapse test documentation and test creation to a single step with Auto-documentation technology.
• Easily data-drive any object definition, method, checkpoint, and output value via the Integrated Data Table.
• Provide a complete IDE environment for QA engineers.
• Preserve your investments in Mercury WinRunner by leveraging existing test scripts written in the Test Scripting Language (TSL) with assets from the QuickTest Professional/WinRunner integration.
• Provide detailed, step by step report – now with video.
• Enable thorough validation of applications through a full complement of checkpoints.
Mercury QuickTest Professional _ How it Works
Mercury QuickTest Professional™ allows even novice testers to be productive in minutes. You can create a test script by simply pressing a Record button and using an application to perform a typical business process. Each step in the business process is automated documented with a plain-English sentence and screen shot. Users can easily modify, remove, or rearrange test steps in the Keyword View.
QuickTest Professional can automatically introduce checkpoints to verify application properties and functionality, for example to validate output or check link validity. For each step in the Keyword View, there is an ActiveScreen showing exactly how the application under test looked at that step. You can also add several types of checkpoints for any object to verify that components behave as expected, simply by clicking on that object in the ActiveScreen.
You can then enter test data into the Data Table, an integrated spreadsheet with the full functionality of Excel, to manipulate data sets and create multiple test iterations, without programming, to expand test case coverage. Data can be typed in or imported from databases, spreadsheets, or text files.
Advanced testers can view and edit their test scripts in the Expert View, which reveals the underlying industry-standard VBScript that QuickTest Professional automatically generates. Any changes made in the Expert View are automatically synchronized with the Keyword View.
Once a tester has run a script, a TestFusion report displays all aspects of the test run: a high-level results overview, an expandable Tree View of the test script specifying exactly where application failures occurred, the test data used, application screen shots for every step that highlight any discrepancies, and detailed explanations of each checkpoint pass and failure. By combining TestFusion reports with Mercury TestDirector, you can share reports across an entire QA and development team.
QuickTest Professional also facilitates the update process. As an application under test changes, such as when a “Login” button is renamed “Sign In,” you can make one update to the Shared Object Repository, and the update will propagate to all scripts that reference this object. You can publish test scripts to Mercury TestDirector, enabling other QA team members to reuse your test scripts, eliminating duplicative work.
QuickTest Professional supports functional testing of all popular environments, including Windows, Web, .Net, Visual Basic, ActiveX, Java, SAP, Siebel, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and terminal emulators.
What is the Diff between Image check-point and Bit map Check point?
Image checkpoints enable you to check the properties of a Web image. You can check an area of a Web page or application as a bitmap. While creating a test or component, you specify the area you want to check by selecting an object. You can check an entire object or any area within an object. QuickTest captures the specified object as a bitmap, and inserts a checkpoint in the test or component. You can also choose to save only the selected area of the object with your test or component in order to save disk Space For example, suppose you have a Web site that can display a map of a city the user specifies. The map has control keys for zooming. You can record the new map that is displayed after one click on the control key that zooms in the map. Using the bitmap checkpoint, you can check that the map zooms in correctly.

You can create bitmap checkpoints for all supported testing environments (as long as the appropriate add-ins are loaded).
Note: The results of bitmap checkpoints may be affected by factors such as operating system, screen resolution, and color settings.