Simplify test creation and maintenance HP QuickTest Professional software provides functionaland regression test automation for major softwareapplications and environments, including next-generationdevelopment technologies, such as Windows®

Presentation Foundation, web services, MacromediaFlex, .NET, J2EE and ERP, and CRM applications.

HP QuickTest Professional offers a fresh approach toautomated testing: it deploys the concept of keyword-driven testing to radically simplify test creation andmaintenance. Using keyword capabilities, your testerscan build test cases by capturing flows directly from the

application screens and applying robust capturingtechnology (record/replay). In addition, your power usersget full access to the underlying test and object propertiesthrough an integrated scripting and debuggingenvironment that is synchronized with the Keyword Viewcapability for your complete testing cycle.

With HP QuickTest Professional, your QualityAssurance (QA) organization can:

• Empower the entire team to create sophisticated testsuites with less training

• Establish correct functionality across all environments,data sets and business processes

• Fully document and replicate defects for developers,helping them fix defects faster and meet productiondeadlines

• Easily regression test ever-changing applications andenvironments

• Deliver quality products and services and improverevenues and profitability

• Enable tester workgroups to share automated testingassets across teams

HP QuickTest Professional softwareData sheet

HP QuickTest Professional software is advanced,automated testing software for building functional andregression test suites. It captures, verifies and replaysuser interactions automatically and helps testers quicklyidentify and report on application effects, whileproviding advanced functionality for tester collaboration.

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How HP QuickTest Professional worksHP QuickTest Professional allows even novice testers tobe productive in minutes. You can create a test byusing the script-free Keyword View feature and simplydeclaring the test steps. QuickTest Professional also letsyou capture test steps via an integrated recordingcapability. The product documents each step in simplelanguage and displays an integrated screenshot viathe Active Screen feature.

Unlike traditional scripting tools that produce scriptsthat are difficult to modify, HP QuickTest Professional’skeyword-driven approach lets you easily insert, modify,data-drive and remove test steps.

HP QuickTest Professional also addresses newapplication builds. When an application being testedchanges, such as renaming a “Login” button to “SignIn,” you only need to update one reference in an XML-based Shared Object Repository (within the ObjectRepository Manager feature), and the update ispropagated to all tests that reference this object. Youcan publish test scripts to HP Quality Center software,allowing other QA team members to reuse your testscripts and eliminating duplicate work.

HP QuickTest Professional supports functional testingfor enterprise environments, including web services,Windows applications, web (Internet Explorer, Firefox,Netscape), .NET, Java™/J2EE, SAP, Siebel, Oracle®,PeopleSoft, Visual Basic, ActiveX, mainframe terminalemulators and Macromedia Flex.

Collaborate across workgroupsHP QuickTest Professional has been designed for testautomation collaboration among tester workgroups. Itincludes technology for managing applicationdefinitions or objects in the Object RepositoryManager. Based on an open XML format, the ObjectRepository Manager lets HP QuickTest Professionalusers collaborate and share application objectdefinitions. HP QuickTest Professional keeps object-level changes synchronized among users throughouttest creation efforts.

In addition, you can define object repositories beforean application is available to QA. Users can alsoshare function libraries, application asset definitionsand data-driven spreadsheets across testerworkgroups.

Easy to useUsing the Keyword Views, Auto-documentation and Active Screen features, you can create and modify test scriptswithout having to write a single line of code.

Get functional and regression test automationHP Functional Testing software combines HP QuickTestProfessional and HP WinRunner software into a singleintegrated solution for comprehensive functional andregression test automation, supporting enterprisesoftware applications and environments. HP FunctionalTesting leverages the integration between HP QuickTestProfessional and HP WinRunner, so that each productcan call scripts of the other, and test results arereported into a common reporting interface.

Combine automated and manual testing You can leverage your investment in HP QuickTestProfessional with HP Business Process Testing software,which provides functional test case design for bothautomated and manual testing. HP Business ProcessTesting enables non-technical subject-matter experts tobecome an integral part of the quality optimizationprocess. It automates the creation of test plans andstreamlines test maintenance for application change.

HP Business Process Testing reduces the overhead forautomated test maintenance and combines testautomation and documentation into a single effort. Itlets subject-matter experts and business managersmeasure the quality of application deliverables fromabstract business definitions defined within the HPBusiness Process Testing framework.

HP Business Process Testing also improves productivityby enabling business analysts and quality engineers tocollaborate effectively. With this role-based solution,subject-matter experts can focus on creating high-leveltest flows that mirror actual business process, whilequality engineers can concentrate their efforts beyondenabling automation.

Part of HP Quality CenterHP QuickTest Professional is part of HP Quality Centersoftware, an integrated set of capabilities and bestpractices for automating key quality activities,including requirements management, test management,defect management, functional testing and business-process testing.

Easy to useUsing the Keyword Views, Auto-documentation andActive Screen features, you can create and modify testscripts without having to write a single line of code.

Key features and benefits • Helps provide immediate ROI through industry-

leading ease of use and pre-configured environmentsupport

• Operates standalone or integrated with HP BusinessProcess Testing and HP Quality Center

• Enables collaboration among workgroups withshared function libraries, robust object managementand flexible asset storage within HP Quality Center

• Features next-generation, “zero-configuration,”keyword-driven testing technology—allowing for fasttest creation, easier maintenance and more powerfuldata-driving capability

• Identifies objects with Unique Smart ObjectRecognition, even if they change from build to build,for reliable and unattended script execution

• Manages multiple object repositories with ease tofacilitate building automated frameworks andlibraries

• Handles unforeseen application events with RecoveryManager, facilitating 24x7 testing to meet testproject deadlines

• Reduces time to resolve defects by automaticallyreproducing defects and identifying problems withthe built-in test execution recorder

• Collapses test documentation and test creation into asingle step with Auto-documentation technology

• Easily data drives any object definition, method,checkpoint and output value via the Integrated DataTable

• Provides a robust, highly configurable IDEenvironment for QA engineers

• Preserves your investments in HP WinRunner byleveraging existing WinRunner test scripts written in the Test Scripting Language through integrationwith HP QuickTest Professional and HP WinRunner

• Rapidly isolates and diagnoses defects withintegrated reports that can be exported into XMLand HTML formats

• Enables thorough validation of applications througha full complement of checkpoints

• Provides Unicode support for multi-lingualapplication testing

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