HP QuickTest Professional - Overview

QuickTest Professional, the Mercury automated keyword-driven testing solution. By mirroring end-user behavior, QuickTest Professional creates interactive customizable tests or components that simplify and shorten the testing cycle.

QuickTest Professional enables you to test standard Windows applications, Web objects, ActiveX controls, and Visual Basic applications. You can also test special environments, such as the Java, Oracle, SAP solutions, .NET Windows and Web Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Web services, and terminal emulators, using additional QuickTest add-ins.

QuickTest Professional is Unicode-compliant, and supports Unicode 2.0, UTF-8, and UTF-16.

QuickTest Professional supports working with the following Mercury applications:

Mercury Application	Versions
WinRunner	QuickTest Professional supports running WinRunner tests and functions for WinRunner 7.6 and later.
Quality Center	QuickTest Professional integrates with Quality Center (formerly TestDirector), the Mercury centralized quality solution, for Quality Center version 8.2—Service Pack 1, and Quality Center version 9.0.
Business Process Testing	QuickTest Professional integrates with Quality Center version 9.0 (with a license for Business Process Testing support).
LoadRunner	QuickTest Professional integrates with LoadRunner, the Mercury tool for application performance testing, for versions 7.8, 7.81 (FP1), 8.0, and 8.1—Feature Pack 1, 2, and 3.
Mercury Application Management	QuickTest Professional integrates with Mercury Application Management, the Mercury solution for optimizing business availability and problem resolution.

System Requirements

To successfully install and run QuickTest Professional, you need to meet the following system requirements:

Computer/Processor:	IBM-PC or compatible with a Pentium III or higher (Pentium IV or higher recommended) microprocessor.
Operating System:	Windows 2000—Service Pack 4, Update Rollup 1 for Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP 32-Bit Edition—Service Pack 2, Windows XP 64-Bit Edition—Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 32-Bit Edition—Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-Bit x86), Windows 2003 64-Bit Edition, or Windows Vista 32-bit Edition.
Memory:	Minimum of 512 MB.
Color Settings:	Minimum of High Color (16 bit).
Graphics Card:	Graphics card with 4 MB video memory (8 MB and above recommended)
Free Hard Disk Space:	480 MB of free disk space for application files and folders (recommended 630 MB), and an additional 120 MB of free disk space on the system disk (the disk on which the operating system is installed). The free disk space requirements do not include disk space required for any prerequisites that may need to be installed before installing QuickTest. After QuickTest Professional is installed, it is recommended to have at least 150 MB free disk space on the system disk for the operating system and QuickTest Professional to run correctly.
Browser:	Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0.

Supported Add-ins

The following specific add-in versions are supported with QuickTest Professional 9.2:

QuickTest Professional Java Add-in 9.1
QuickTest Professional .NET Add-in 9.2
QuickTest Professional Oracle Add-in 8.2
QuickTest Professional PeopleSoft Add-in 8.2*
QuickTest Professional Add-in 8.2 for SAP Solutions
QuickTest Professional Siebel Add-in 8.0*
QuickTest Professional Stingray Add-in 8.2
QuickTest Professional Terminal Emulator Add-in 8.0*
QuickTest Professional VisualAge Smalltalk Add-in 8.2
QuickTest Professional Web Services Add-in 9.2

Supported Environments and Programs

QuickTest Professional supports creating, recording, and running tests or components using the environments and programs described below.

Virtualization Technologies

VMware workstation 5.5
Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 4.0

Standard Windows Applications

QuickTest Professional supports testing on applications based on Win32 API and MFC. QuickTest Professional does not support testing on 64-bit applications.

Visual Basic Applications

QuickTest Professional supports testing on Visual Basic 6.0 applications.

Note: Visual Basic .NET applications are supported by the QuickTest Professional .NET Add-in.

Browsers

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0
Netscape Browser 8.1.2
Mozilla Firefox 1.5
Mozilla Firefox 2.0

ActiveX Grid Controls

In addition to basic support of ActiveX properties and methods, QuickTest Professional supports context-sensitive recording and verification on the following ActiveX Grid controls:

Name	ProgId
FarPoint Spreadsheet 2.5	FPSpread.Spread.1
FarPoint Spreadsheet 3.0	FPSpread.Spread.2
FarPoint Spreadsheet 3.5	FPSpread.Spread.3
FarPoint Spreadsheet 6.0	FPSpread.Spread.4
FarPoint Spreadsheet 3.0 (OLEDB)	FPSpreadADO.fpSpread.2
FarPoint Spreadsheet 3.5 (OLEDB)	FPSpreadADO.fpSpread.3
FarPoint Spreadsheet 6 (OLEDB)	FPSpreadADO.fpSpread.4
FarPoint Spread 7.0 (OLEDB)	FPSpreadADO.fpSpread.5
FarPoint Spread 7.0 (OLEDB) (UNICODE)	FPUSpreadADO.fpSpread.5
Microsoft Grid 1.0	MSGrid.Grid
Microsoft DataBound Grid 5.0	MSDBGrid.DBGrid
Microsoft Flex Grid 6.0	MSFlexGridLib.MSFlexGrid.1
Sheridan Data Grid 2.0	SSDataWidgets.SSDBGridCtrlApt.1
Sheridan Data Grid 3.1	SSDataWidgets.SSDBGridCtrlApt.3
Apex True DataBound Grid 5.0	TrueDBGrid50.TDBGrid
Apex True DataBound Grid 6.0	TrueDBGrid60.TDBGrid
Apex True OLE DB Grid 6.0	TrueOleDBGrid60.TDBGrid

ActiveX Calendar Controls

In addition to built-in support for ActiveX properties and methods, QuickTest Professional supports context-sensitive recording and verification on the following ActiveX Calendar controls:

Name	ProgId
Microsoft Date and Time Picker Control 6.0 (SP4)	MSComCtl2.DTPicker.2
Microsoft MonthView Control 6.0 (SP4)	MSComCtl2.MonthView.2

Microsoft Excel

When using Microsoft Excel files with QuickTest Professional (for example, to import or export data to or from the Data Table), you can work with Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, and XP.

Microsoft Query

When using Microsoft Query with QuickTest Professional (for example, for Database checkpoints), you can work with Microsoft Query 2000, 2002, 2003, and XP.

Additional Environments

QuickTest Professional add-ins support other environments such as Java, .NET Windows and Web Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation, SAP Solutions, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, VisualAge Smalltalk, Stingray, Web Services, and terminal emulator applications. For more information on QuickTest Professional add-ins, refer to the relevant add-in documentation. 

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