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Enhancements in QTP 9.5

Hp has made some major enhancements in QTP 9.5 over the previous versions.

Environment Support:

  • QTP 9.5 offers all add-ins integrated with the core installation package. Though you still need to by add-ins separately to get them activated.
  • For installing QTP 9.5 you have to do a clean uninstall of previous versions. That means, now on you would not be able to upgrade from the previous versions.

QTP IDE:

A refreshing enhancement in QTP IDE GUI I liked this time was the ingroduction of the ability to see functions related to current tests. Whether you have an external file containing functions or they are inside reusable actions, you would be able to see all of them at one place. Now no need to dig and scroll through the endless list of functions in your notepad!

Bitmap Checkpoint:

Earlier using bitmap checkpoint was a pain in a sense that a minor change in pixel and your test would fail. To increase the tolerance we have to go inside windows registry and change the required tolerance value. With QTP 9.5 HP has introduced support for tolerance level direct from the GUI. You can define tolerance in terms of RGB and/or pixels.

Web Add-in Extensibility:

Using this feature you can configure and extend the support to those 3rd party custom web controls and new technologies like AJAX which were not supported with the earlier versions. You need to posses fair amount of JavaScript knowledge to handle this. How much help this feature really provides is yet to be seen!

Maintenance Run Mode:

Repair your test on the fly, this will assists you to adding the steps or updating the object properties in OR on the fly..ie.. if your object properties are changed after a new bulid, you just run the maintenance Run Mode and update your OR according to that on the fly.

Process Guidance:

This is little more than more accessible help files. Maybe this is good for when you are first learning to record a test, but it doesn’t seem to add much utility.

Flow Pane:

Available Keywords pane: All test objects and functions in one handy location. Rapid test development with drag and drop. Object repository now also supports drag and drop.

Resource pane: All resources associated with the test. You can see all your library file in this pane.

  • Missing resources pane.
  • Relative path Helper.
  • Improved Bitmap Checkpoint

Web Extensibility:

Anyone can add support for new web controls

Rapid development in JavaScript

Solid infrastructure supplied by the Web add-in

Extensibility objects are first class citizens

Built-in toolkit: ASP Ajax

Tabbed browsing:

Tabs identified as separate browsers. Same test compatible with tabbed and not tabbed browsers.

New Technologies:

  1. PowerBuilder
  2. Oracle –Froms10 –App12
  3. StingRay Objective Grid 10, 114.
  4. PeopleSoft 9.0
  5. New Terminal Emulator versions
  6. .Net 3.5

New Environments:

  1. Windows Vista 64 bit
  2. Eclipse 3.2 and 3.3
  3. Record on SWT
  4. Firefox 3.0
  5. Netscape 9
  6. Reference: HP Web site.

* Please let me know your views on this new version of QTP 9.5

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