A macro is a series of commands that any tool or application

(VB, Editors, Textpad etc) executes automatically. You

create a macro by recording it or writing it yourself. When

you "play back" or run a macro, it repeats the actions you

performed while the Macro recorder was on.

In testing before running actually the scripts or manual

runs, we need to do some initial activities, opening the

QTP/any tool, selecting tests, sheduling them, running

them. All these activities we can record thru macro's and

can run them, to reduce mnual efort and realibility.