QTP tutorial for beginners

I want to provide the advice for beginners who want to learn QTP test automation tool. I will try to get you on the road to becoming HP QTP guru, starting with the basics and covering all of the core concepts you need to become vigorous in QuickTest Professional. I am aiming HP QTP tutorial at complete beginner who desires to learn test automation from the very beginning, software professional who needs rapidly expand QTP skills and QA Manager who eager to improve testing and coverage. I'll assume that you already have manual testing or some programming experience and know whats is HTML and DOM.

How did I get started with HP QTP? I was a manual tester and one day while looking for the testing solution I noticed a tool on a software testing market called HP QTP. I have decided to give a try by downloading QTP evaluation version and using it for several iterations on some public web site, lots of trials and errors, lots of experiments, than I brought the evaluation version to the office and presented to QA team members.

Step by step guide to learn QTP

Everyone wants to learn HP QTP and productively use this test automation tool, but not everyone knows how to begin the journey. The steps for learning HP QTP can be summarized as follows

• Start with a basics of Quality Assurance and Software Testing
• Learn when and why do you need to use test automation
• Learn basics of VBScript
• Download QTP demo version. The trial version is valid for 30 days, which should be enough to start
• Learn basic record and replay of scripts
• Implement some basic automation scripts
• Learn advanced QTP concepts by buying and studying one of the best QTP books, if needed.

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.

HP QTP Tutorials

Every HP QTP specialist knows mournful fact that HP QuickTest Professional books are not available on open market. Today I put together nice presentations about using short keys in test automation tools.



Update:
A few QuickTest Pro books have been released recently on market, for detailed review look at Best Books for QTP

QTP Interview Question 2: Where can I buy any good basic or advance books on QTP?

If your company buys QuickTest Professional license from Mercury (actually from HP) then your Quality Assurance team will get QTP Tutorial - self-paced guide that educates you the fundamentals of testing your application and QTP User Guide - describes how to use QuickTest to test your applications. The User Guide provides step-by-step directions to assist you create, debug, and run tests and components, and report defects detected for the duration of the testing process.

Unfortunately even eager SQA engineer cannot get QTP book from open market and the same applies on the rival firm - Silktest book. As far as I comprehend, the HP and Borland sales strategy is the following - if you want to learn or have any issues take an expensive training course and they will give you a student guide.

Update:
A few QTP books have been released recently on market, for detailed review look at Best Books for QTP