Unified Functional Testing Training And Placement

The latest version of QTP is 11.5; this new version of QTP is named as HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT). Basically, the UFT is a mixture of HP QTP (GUI testing tool) and HP Service Test (API testing tool). Mixture of QTP and ST will be available on a single graphic user interface. So from now onward, user does not have to download two different tools while working.

Latest version of QTP supports Web, Java .Net, SAP, Oracle, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Web Services, and many other major languages and platforms, but some older versions do not support all above mentioned languages and platforms.

HP UFT 11.5 will also facilitate open source Continuous Integration(CI) systems like Jenkins and Hudson. While, understanding the need of phone (smart-phones + tablets) among users, HP is more giving attention on this;HP’s UFT 11.5 will deliver an enhanced support for mobile testing. With this HP UFT Mobile support, HP says that user will be able to generate mobile platform agnostic scripts.Agnostic scripts which has been created iOS, can also work on Android. It will also support emulators and real devices. The real devices can be taken from the public cloud of collective real devices and/or private cloud of devoted real devices.

Advantage and Disadvantage of QTP/UFT:

Advantages

• Freely Combined with Test Management Tool (Hp-Quality Center) which allows easy scheduling and Monitoring.
• Very simple and easy to use and understand, very easy to navigate, provides very user-friendly results validation and Report generation process.
• It has become very significant for Mobile Application Testing.
• Although, it is a HP product, HP provides it full support in any manner.
• Development process of QTP/UFT automation testing uses VBScript language which comes with very much skilled and easy code as compare to any other object oriented programming languages.
• Although, it is a commercial tool, very costly to purchase its license.
• QTP/UFT scripting process takes less time, but execution process takes relatively more time and increases load on CPU & RAM.
• QTP/UFT does not work with all browsers’ versions, testers are always depend on patch file of the browser particular version.
• Just like Selenium, QTP/UFT works only on Windows OS.

Disadvantages

• Although, it is a commercial tool, very costly to purchase its license.
• QTP scripting process takes less time, but execution process takes relatively more time and increases load on CPU & RAM.
• QTP does not work with all browsers’ versions, testers are always depend on patch file of the browser particular version.
• Just like Selenium, QTP works only on Windows OS.