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Have you ever wondered why do we need to launch the application under test (AUT) after QTP is launched? When I started learning QTP I asked the same question to the trainer and he said he would get back on it, after some research i found the answer to my question , sharing here what i learnt ( few years back ) and found ( recently ) : QTP interacts with test applications using windows hooks. A hook is a point in the system message-handling mechanism where an application can install a subroutine to monitor the message traffic in the system and process certain types of messages before they reach the target window procedure. Therefore these hooks help QTP during recording and identifying objects Hooks can only be installed using DLLs These Hooks can be injected only during runtime when QTP is brought up. An interesting example from Tarun here  : "Hooks are basically interceptors in system". This example will clear it User Clicks -> Windows OS determi...

In continuation to the prev post on " Ten Best Tools for Test Automation " read another interesting link ( toolsjournal ) on what are the ten best open source bug tracking systems, so here is the list in no particular order: Bugzilla Mantis BT   Trac Redmine OTRS [Open-source Ticket Request System] Request Tracker Eventum BugGenie WebIssues Fossil Click on the links to get more info on any of the tools. Happy Testing! And if you want a comparison on the tools features here is an excellent link

Some vbscript to get the previous week's date, modify the code and you can do a lot of fun things with the same: 'Gets the last friday's date  strCurrentSysDate = Date  strModDate = dateadd("ww",-1,strCurrentSysDate)  numWeekDay = 6- weekday(strModDate)  strModifiedDate = dateadd("d",numWeekDay,strModDate)  strmonth =left(monthname(month(strModifiedDate)),3)  If len(cstr(day(strModifiedDate))) < 2 Then   strDate = "0"&day(strModifiedDate)  else   strDate = day(strModifiedDate)  End If  strYear = year(strModifiedDate)  strPrevDate =  strmonth& "/" & strDate & "/" & strYear Msgbox strPrevDate

Read an interesting link ( toolsjournal ) on what are the ten best tools for automation , though i wouldnt say that these are the ten best tools , rather they are ten known/popular tools in no particular order: QTP Watir TOSCA Testsuite Selenium VISUAL STUDIO TEST PROFESSIONAL WebUI TEST STUDIO RATIONAL FUNCTIONAL TESTER TESTCOMPLETE TESTPARTNER SOA TEST Click on the links to get more info on any of the tools. Happy Testing!

 Here is the code to set "Allow other HP products" option to true before starting automation. Set objWshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") Set objApp = createObject("QuickTest.Application") objWshShell.RegRead("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\MicTest\")         If Err <> 0 Then             Wscript.Sleep 1000             objApp.Launch             objApp.Visible = False             objApp.Options.Run.RunMode = "Fast"             objApp.Quit         End If         objWshShell.RegWrite "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\MicTest\AllowTDConnect","1","REG_DWORD" '------------------ '...

Today came across an interesting comparison on test automation tools on " knol " P.S: Click on the link to get the comparison .