HP QTP Interview Question 25: How to view QTP test results in HTML format?

In case Software Quality Assurance Engineer would like to share HP QTP test result with other team members or management, it would be better to provide this valuable information in more meaningful results then default XML format. The faster way to achieve this goal would be to edit Windows Registry in the following way:

Locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE->SOFTWARE->Mercury Interactive->
QuickTest Professional->Logger->Media->Log
Double click on "Active"
Change the Value data from 0 to 1
Restart HP QTP 

Now when you execute your test, the results folder that is produced by HP QTP will have additional log folder. This folder will contain the HTML version of the report located in logfile.html file. Use it wisely.

HP QTP Interview Question 24: Winrunner vs QTP comparison?

This interview question was very popular not long ago among interviewers and in many cases looked like: explain the major differences between WinRunner and QTP, compare WinRunner and QTP. If you expect I would provide now detailed comparison of Winrunner and HP QTP or you have to compare these automation tools by technologies, supported environments and so on during your interview for Quality Assurance Engineer postion, you are completely wrong. My answer on this interview question would be - HP WinRunner is dead and it doesn't make sense to compare QTP vs Winrunner or SilkTest vs Winrunner any more for anyone. As an interviewer I would rather interested in your approach on migrating WinRunner test scripts to QuickTest Professional test scripts.

HP QTP Interview Question 23: Pop up windows is not being recognized?

The following elucidation would help with proper identification of pop up windows with of HP QTP 9.5. In such cases the parent object does not contain a "visible" property enabled by default and it leads to the circumstances that while HP QTP is not able to identify pop-up window.

Recognize the parent object class;
Navigate to Tools > Object identification;
Choose Environment;
Choose Test Object Class as identified above;
Navigate to mandatory properties;
Click on Add/Remove;
Choose "visible" property;
Record the problem part of your application once more;

Hopefully HP QTP should accurately identify the pop-up window now