QTP: And I thought I knew QTP by Tarun Lalwani

Tarun Lalwani, one of the leading experts in the automation test tool QuickTest Professional™ (QTP) has recently released his second book: And I thought I knew QTP.

This is most likely a unique book in this context: A technical novel! At least I have not read anything like it or heard about something simular to this concept.

The story is about Nurat, an Indian consultant with 7 years experience of QTP. While considering a new career, he is called to a series of interviews for one the top companies in the IT-business. Those interviews are about every aspect of QTP you can think of (and some you did not knew about I can assure you).

The question-answer format in combination with some practical hands-on tips makes this a great book about QTP whether you work (or want to) as an automation consultant or with other automation releated tasks such as framwork design for example.

I got a feeling when reading this book that it has some elements of self-biography but it is my personal reflection. I guess only Tarun himself could measure with Nurat. Without reviling the end of this book I probably would not have passed these interviews since I thought I knew QTP :-).

Test case model - refactoring part 2

How to report function coverage using SBTM? Maybe the model should look like this:




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Testing dashboard part 3

I am still a severe dashboard addict...and this new gauge from google is so cool (rendered within the browser).



What can it be used for in an SQA context?

Severe bugs per day? Suggestions welcome...I must have it somewhere in our release status testing dashboard...

Test case model - refactoring

After very fruitful sessions with James Bach and addQ a lot of ideas are spinning in my head.

I am definetly refactoring my test case model so Test Charters and Test sessions are included...

Maybe it should look like this:





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Pairwise test case design part four

New version of my PICT web shell is now available here.

I got a request for allowing PICT option values so in the new version it is possible to set option values in an input field. In addition I have also implemented a parameter for setting the timeout value for creation of the output file (in previous version it was a hard coded value of 5 seconds).

Pairwise test case design part three

I discovered the wonderful project CodeMirror about a year ago where you can design a text editor in browser with syntax highlightning...

...the other day when I edited a model file for PICT.exe I got the idea of a deluxe version of my old PICT web shell. For more background about PICT and Pairwise test case design, please see my first post about it.



Key features:
+ Syntax highlight for PICT model file content
+ Test cases output file content visable in GUI
+ Export to Excel

Download and enjoy!

Long Time no...

...post

Well since I am with iPhone nowadays maybe (no promises) I will post more often...I have some small projects I might publish soon, stay tuned...


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