Go gaga over Machine Learning

Continuing the series of posts under the skillset category, here is another very interesting job profile for a Test Automation Architect: Note the Skillset category is just to gauge where you stand in terms of the skills required for the role. Primary Purpose: Top level technical expert with extensive business knowledge responsible for supporting a major application or suite of applications within an IT Section   Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job.  Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below.  Specific activities may change from time to time. 1. Work as a technical/business consultant with clients, analysts, programmers, and team members to solve complex business problems; including development of feasibility studies, project plans, cost/benefits, alternative solutions, resource requirements, and project estimates. 2. Develop detailed specificatio...

UFT or Unified Functional Testing HP is now selling a new tool license called UFT which is nothing but QTP 11.0 (for GUI testing) and Service test (for non GUI testing) under one umbrella. If you try to download the tool from HP's website you would be downloading nothing but QTP 11.0!! They also have a website which is " http://unifiedfunctionaltesting.com/ " which is under construction :-) You can download their brochure about the tool from here , which says that they are targeting at multiple layers of an application from one single place. Layers of Application are Business Process Testing Application level / GUI testing Headless layer / Web services testing / Java/JMS or .NET API Hope this tool is much more than a gimmick by HP to sell a new license..

There are instances when you want to kill qtp after "x" number of runs. This VAPI script does exactly that: ' ---------------------------------------------------- ' Main Test Function ' Debug - Boolean. Equals to false if running in [Test Mode] : reporting to Quality Center ' CurrentTestSet - [OTA COM Library].TestSet. ' CurrentTSTest - [OTA COM Library].TSTest. ' CurrentRun - [OTA COM Library].Run. ' ---------------------------------------------------- Sub Test_Main(Debug, CurrentTestSet, CurrentTSTest, CurrentRun)   ' *** VBScript Limitation ! ***   ' "On Error Resume Next" statement suppresses run-time script errors.   ' To handle run-time error in a right way, you need to put "If Err.Number <> 0 Then"   ' after each line of code that can cause such a run-time error.   On Error Resume Next   ' clear output window   TDOutput.Clear   Dim rc   Dim strProcessName:strProcessName = ...

Problem: Create tests in the test plan by copying a base test in QC to a destination folder in QC with the test names from the file system's existing folders/files. Solution: Created a macro using OTA to do the same: Code: Private Sub CommandButton1_Click()         If LoadQCConnectForm Then     End If         Dim FSO As Object     Dim Folder As Object     Dim FolderName As String     Dim SubFolder As Object     Dim strTestCase As String     Dim TestCaseName As String         'Parent Directory - Change this to whichever directory you want to use     FolderName = GetVariable("Fitnesse Path")          Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")     Set Folder = FSO.GetFolder(FolderName)       ...

I shall share my experience here that might help folks who are planning to adopt BPT : HP Business Process Testing in a nut shell is used for designing business components that can be reused in business process tests. Pre- requisite : A separate add-in which comes along with Quality Centre. QC 10 - [http://update.external.hp.com/qualitycenter/qc100/mictools/qtp/qtp_10/QuickTest_Add-in_for_Quality_Center.msi] Terminologies: Components are easily-maintained, reusable units that perform a specific task. Quick Test provides two types of components: Manual / QTP / Winrunner QTP - business components and scripted components Business Components are keyword driven components Scripted Components are regular code driven components. Application Area: Collection of testing resources  like function libraries, shared object repositories, keywords, testing preferences and recovery scenarios Component Input and Output Parameters - Variable values ...