HP QTP Interview Question 29: Where can I find HP QTP tutorial?

Actually it is not exactly HP QuickTest Professional interview question, but more associated with HP FAQ. Anyway as I understood, HP policy on HP QTP tutorial is more or less: “take expensive QTP training class if you have any questions”. If you desperately need HP QTP tutorial, make an effort with Google search. Google return plenty of valuable outcomes for QTP tutorial search and if you are feeling lucky you can even download QTP tutorial from different sources.

Let's take a look inside HP QuickTest Professional tutorial. HP QTP tutorial is nicely divided into nine short, but comprehensive lessons. After completing QTP tutorial, you can use the skills you have learned to any website.

Lesson 1, Introducing HP QuickTest puts side by side automated and manual testing methods. It introduces the HP QTP testing process and makes acquainted you with the HP QTP user interface and the sample web site.
Lesson 2, Recording Tests tutors you how to record a test and provides an overview of the resulting Keyword View display.
Lesson 3, Running and Analyzing Tests demonstrates you how to execute a test and observe the test results.
Lesson 4, Creating Checkpoints gives explanation how to insert checkpoints to your test to validate that information in your Web site is displayed as anticipated.
Lesson 5, Parameterizing tests explains you how to parameterize your test so that you can successfully execute it on multiple sets of data.
Lesson 6, Creating Output Values instructs you how to utilize output parameters to retrieve data from any web site.
Lesson 7, Using Regular Expressions teaches you how to generate and execute a test via different regular expressions.
Lesson 8, Dividing Tests into Multiple Actions elucidates how to split your test into actions so that you can plan more professional and modular tests.
Last lesson of HP QTP tutorial, Where Do You Go from Here? Demonstrates you how to get started testing any web site and advises you where you can discover more practical information about HP QTP.

Interview question 12: QTP or Selenium?

The one of the recently hired interns, who works in a temporary QA Engineer position with an emphasis on on-the-job training rather than only employment, asked me about the piece of advice in choosing between HP QuickTest Professional and Selenium as carrier path.

Let's take a quick look and compare both test automated tools:

Selenium is free open source test automation tool, while HP QTP price is around a few grand. It means if you want to add Selenium to your skill set, just download application, download manual and start working. QTP download is available only for HP customers, although of course everyone can download free trial version of QuickTest Pro, but it will work only for 30 days and then you will get bombarded by HP sales representatives trying to get your money.

There are no a single QTP book or tutorial published yet, comparing with several recently published Selenium books.

Selenium allows creating automated test scenarios only against web applications. In mean time Quality Assurance Engineer may automate client server application with QuickTest Professional.
Selenium supports a wide range of browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Opera or Konqueror on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In mean time HP QuickTest Professional is limited to Internet Explorer on Windows.

HP QTP uses a scripting language implemented on top of VBScript to define the test procedure, and to manipulate the objects and controls of the application under test.
Selenium has lots of language bindings like Java, .Net, Perl, PHP, Python, and Ruby, so anyone can learn not only tool, but add a few more lines in the resume.

Last thing to check is go to any job search sites like dice.com or monster.com and compare how many positions are available for QTP or Selenium.

Update
A few HP QTP books have been released recently on market, for detailed review look at Top recommended books for QTP.