HP WinRunner is dead

The life of SQA Engineers becomes easier. HP Software announced the end of support for HP WinRunner versions 7.5, 7.6, 8.0, 8.2, 9.2 – all versions, all editions. For the past seven years Mercury Interactive and then HP has offered both test automation testing tools HP WinRunner and HP QuickTest Professional as part of top functional testing packaged solution for extensive automated testing. Eliminating the functionality overlap between the products will maximize the value of the software functionality to HP customers. As part of the migration proposal, HP will replace the HP WinRunner licenses listed above that are fully maintained by an active annual HP WinRunner support contract with HP QuickTest Pro 9.5 license, free of charge. The free QTP 9.5 evaluation is available for download on HP web site.

HP has chosen Gallop Technologies as their exclusive partner for providing migration services from HP WinRunner to HP QTP 9.5 based on the WinQuick platform. According to Gallop Technologies, WinQuick provides a fast, high quality, cost effective solution for automatically converting and re-architecting HP WinRunner code base to HP QTP 9.5. WinQuick delivers clean and maintainable code that uses structures, idioms, libraries, conventions and components of the target HP QuickTest Professional 9.5 environment. The migrated code does not have any dependency on TSL and is native to the target environment.