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 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.