QTP allows even novice testers to be productive in minutes.

You can create a test script by simply pressing a Record

button and using an application to perform a typical

business process. Each step in the business process is

automated documented with a plain-English sentence and

screen shot. Users can easily modify, remove, or rearrange

test steps in the Keyword View.

QTP can automatically introduce checkpoints to verify

application properties and functionality, for example to

validate output or check link validity. For each step in

the Keyword View, there is an ActiveScreen showing exactly

how the application under test looked at that step. You can

also add several types of checkpoints for any object to

verify that components behave as expected, simply by

clicking on that object in the ActiveScreen.

You can then enter test data into the Data Table, an

integrated spreadsheet with the full functionality of

Excel, to manipulate data sets and create multiple test

iterations, without programming, to expand test case

coverage. Data can be typed in or imported from databases,

spreadsheets, or text files.

Advanced testers can view and edit their test scripts in

the Expert View, which reveals the underlying industry-

standard VBScript that QuickTest Professional automatically

generates. Any changes made in the Expert View are

automatically synchronized with the Keyword View.

Once a tester has run a script, a TestFusion report

displays all aspects of the test run: a high-level results

overview, an expandable Tree View of the test script

specifying exactly where application failures occurred, the

test data used, application screen shots for every step

that highlight any discrepancies, and detailed explanations

of each checkpoint pass and failure. By combining

TestFusion reports with Mercury Quality Management, you can

share reports across an entire QA and development team.

QTP also facilitates the update process. As an

application under test changes, such as when a ?Login?

button is renamed ?Sign In,? you can make one update to the

Shared Object Repository, and the update will propagate to

all scripts that reference this object. You can publish

test scripts to Mercury Quality Management, enabling other

QA team members to reuse your test scripts, eliminating

duplicative work.

QuickTest Professional supports functional testing of all

popular environments, including Windows, Web, .Net, Visual

Basic, ActiveX, Java, SAP, Siebel, Oracle, PeopleSoft,

terminal emulators, and Web services.

there are lots difference b/w winrunner & qtp

there is one advatgae with winrunner even though QTP is 
advanced .

in winrunner we will get x,y coordinates while doing with 
image/bitmap checkpoint in results page

but in QTP we won't get those coordinates it gives only the 
errer relusts