Hi guys,


Our company has started to automate testing and started
using the tool QTP.Iam new to QTP and I have the following
questions to ask.

Would appreciate if anyone could give me a hand on this and
explain things in a detailed way.

[1]

Bugs outside checkpoints: I know that I can easily make the
QTP do what I want inside the application. Also, I know
that I can insert some checkpoints and that the qtp will
notice if those conditions are not met. However, there are
bugs and problems that might not be connected to a
checkpoint (system crash, database error, losing
session/logout etc.); how can I make sure that the QTP will
notice such problems as well and flag a test as failed.

[2]

How to tell the QTP that when a particular statement
is "false",it should flag it as, test failed and show in in
the test report.
In short how to tell the qtp that a test is false from the
script so that it shows it in the report

For Eg:-

if(true)

test passed // how to instruct qtp
else
test failed // how to instruct qtp


[3]
Test script portability: we are having several
environments; If I record a test on User Interface,
obviously, the qtp will save the URL; however, how can I
make the qtp run the tests so that the url is provided
dynamically.

Is there a possibility to parameterize the web server.Is
this the way to do it.I dont know?


[4]
Test management: How do I manage the tests? I guess we will
be doing it in Quality Center, yet, it’s not perfectly
clear to me how we will be doing that.

[5]
Running scheduled test sets: How do I group tests to a
certain test set? How can I make this test set run at a
predefined time?

[6]

Test maintenance: What do we need to do beforehand in
order to enable for easy test maintenance, meaning small
adjustments in tests?

[7]
Reports: What kind of reports on test results are
available (either QTP or Quality Center)?

Thanks in advance and hoping for an answer.

Jen