How to lock the PC after automatically running Quick Test Professional scripts?

Being a graphical interface record-playback automation tool, Quick Test Professional makes wonders enabling the professionals to work with any web, java or windows client application. Ranging from testing standard web pages, web objects, and ActiveX controls. Quick Test Professional (Quick Test Professional) also enables to test Java applets and applications and multimedia objects on Applications as well as standard Windows applications, Visual Basic 6 applications and .NET framework applications…

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Quick Test Professional is a revolutionary testing tool that is powered with Mercury Interactive Functional Testing. For instance, Mercury QTP provides the industry’s best solution for functional test and regression test automation – addressing every major software application and the environment. This next-generation automated testing solution deploys the concept of Keyword-driven testing to radically simplify test creation and maintenance. Unique to QTP’s Keyword-driven approach, test automation experts have full access to the underlying test and object properties, via an integrated scripting and debugging environment that is round-trip synchronized with the Keyword View.

The most important advantage of Automation Testing is that Scripts are run in an unattended mode. It allows the tester to prepare the batch of scripts and leave their homes. Once the batch scripts are successfully completed running, no matter even if it passes or even get failed, the PC is unlocked inviting others to view your secret project related data. Sometimes, this could pose a security issue or efficiently issue in an organization. However, it can become an extremely devastating issue in a case of a company having Finance or Banking related projects, having top most concern for the security of its data. Here are some simple tricks to lock the PC once the scripts are over.

You can use the following Quick Test Professional Script to Lock your PC :

Set obj = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

sCmnd = "%windir%\SYSTEM32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation"

obj.Run sCmnd, 0, False

The above Quick Test Professional Script will lock your PC automatically. Moreover, I will suggest you create this Script as a separate Script and call this Script lastly in your batch. This will solve the purpose.