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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Test Design Studio for HP QuickTest® Professional, WinRunner®, and Quality Center

Patterson Consulting's Test Design Studio is an exciting new product that is the first of its kind for Mercury/HP automation. This product serves as a single, integrated editor for WinRunner® scripts and GUI Map Files, QuickTest® Profressional scripts, VBScript files, and Quality Center workflow scripts. Additional functionality is also provided to assist the automation effort and administration of Quality Center.
Advanced Code Editor Control
Test Design Studio utilizes an advanced control for editing text files and provides the same editing experience found in powerful editors like Microsoft®'s Visual Studio 2005 product.

Object Browser
The Object Browser is a visual representation of all the classes, functions, and other members in your libraries, scripts, and other resources. Select any item to see extended details for that item.

Seemless Quality Center Integration
A wizard interface is used to define all Quality Center connection information. You can specify one or more servers and define projects within each server. When opening files, all configured projects will appear completely integrated with your standard file system for easy browsing.

Quality Center Administration
Many of the features typically available through the Quality Center Site Administration and Project Customization utilities will be available directly from within Test Design Studio. Manage multiple projects and servers from within a single interface. 

Integrated Web Browser
Browse the web or any web-based application (like Quality Center) directly within the tool. Each web browser instance appears within the editor as a document tab just like the editor windows.

Friday, November 28, 2008

VMware Lab Manager Add-in For HP Quality Center

The VMware Lab Manager Add-in for HP Quality Center provides an automation bridge between testing and deployment of test environments. QA staff now have the power to seamlessly invoke operations in VMware Lab Manager as part of a Test Set within HP Quality Center or from QuickTest Professional. Test Sets can now deploy variations of applications under test in a virtualized environment and direct other testing tools such as QuickTest Professional and WinRunner to run against them. When defects are encountered, the Add-in facilitates the creation of LiveLinks to capture the running state of the application when it failed. When the tests are finished running, the Add-in can undeploy the virtualized environment to save memory and processing resources.For More Details : Visit - http://www.genilogix.com/solutions/vmware.aspx

Also See : 

HPRead HP's executive brief on virtualization

View the HP/VMware/Genilogix webcast on Performance Testing Virtualized Applications

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Loading Custom QuickTest Professional Add-in When Starting Test From Quality Center

Whenever QuickTest Professional (QTP) is launched from Quality Center (QC), QTP is launched with the default addin ... that is Web Addin (mostly). This can be modified. There is a Template that QC launches which has this addin configured. So Modify the QuickTest Professional Add-in template test to your Addin Settings.

Here are the steps you will need to follow to modify the QTP add-in template test:
1. Launch QTP without connecting to QC.
2. Open up the relevant template from the file system. For example, if you are using QTP 9.1, you need to open up: "\Program Files\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Add-in for Quality Center\bin\Templates\Template91". You will notice that the last two digits of the script name conform to the version of your QTP. 
3. Once opened, go to File->Settings. 
4. In the Properties tab, click the Modify button and add the relevant add-ins.
5. Apply the changes and save the script. All your generated scripts from QC will now include those add-ins.