QuickTest Professional Training

Course review:

This course teaches how to create automated test scripts using the point-and-click interface of QuickTest Professional. Students will learn to record, enhance, and run scripts, which emulate real users of test applications. Enhancement includes verification of correct application behaviour and preparing scripts to run with multiple sets of data. The training also shows how to test applications in different environments, including Windows, Web, Java, and .NET.

The QuickTest Professional course focuses on using QuickTest as an automated functional testing tool for different environments.

You will learn how to create automated tests using QuickTest's graphical point-and-click interface, working with dynamic objects and creating flexible tests using QuickTest's built-in functions and VBScript.

Course Outline

• Why is automation necessary?
• When do we automate?
• How are QTP, functional testing and regression testing connected?
• Requirements analysis and mapping manual test cases into QTP
• What is a regression pack?
• Basic QTP script creation
• What is the Object repository?
• Understanding the Object repository
• Manipulating the object repository
• Script enhancement
• Data driving using parameters
• Checkpoints (Text, Page, Database checkpoints)
• Static and Dynamic checkpoints
• When are static checkpoints used and why are they important?
• When are dynamic checkpoints used and why are they important?
• Creation and manipulation of dynamic checkpoints
• Introduction to VB scripts
• Script manipulation using VB scripts – Constants, Variables, Control structures, script decision making, Loops (re-occurring iterations)
• Practical exercises based on real life scenarios
• Interview question and answer sessions
• Building your confidence

The demand for QuicK Test Professional experience in the marketplace is on the rise, and a simple search on any IT Recruitment site will return a multitude of roles offering extremely appealing day rates from anywhere between £350 to £500 per day as a contractor and up to £50k p.a. for permanent roles.
Knowledge of this tool is a very valuable skill to have.
As a contractor, a day off work is a day's pay lost.
To attend a 1 or 2 day course during the week is likely to cost you, the contractor, double the cost of attending training at the weekend, *Course fee + Day's Rate lost

You're in business - training at the weekend makes PERFECT BUSINESS SENSE.