QTP Unplugged
QuickTest Professional Unplugged is the first book of its kind to be made available to the QuickTest community. Apart from having a great deal of information available on QTP, there is also plenty of knowledge-share on related subjects such as HTML DOM, XML, Databases, Microsoft Office Word, Excel & Outlook, Quality Center, .NET Framework and Test Automation Frameworks. You can view the Table of Contents as well as the first few pages of the book here.
One of the things that readers will find most helpful are real world scenarios and examples with their solutions. Not only will the solutions teach beginners how to code better, but also provide insights as to how much is possible with QTP. Now, after reading this far, you might have the following few questions:
Question 1: What’s in it for me?
To start with, it will be hard to stop reading this book once you begin. Regardless of your QTP level, this book will teach you something new every time you read it. If not, you will certainly be thinking in a more creative direction – something that our automation community is always striving for.
Question 2: Will I learn any concepts other than QTP?
Yes. You certainly will. There is an array of chapters on related technologies that will be quite interesting to learn like working with APIs, HTML DOM, MS Applications etc. Moreover, knowing the extra bits will only give you an edge over most other automation developers.
Question 3: But, if everyone is buying this book, how will I have that extra edge?
Well, quite simply put, you will be able to deliver something to your organization that has never been done before. Every organization you walk into, apart from knowing that you have to do great work, its good to have that thought at the back of your head to do something different as well.
Question 4: Ok, I’m convinced. Where can I buy this book?
Ah, this is a simple one! Please see here.
Summary
QTP Unplugged is an excellent source for beginners, and will especially help individuals who have little or no programming background. In a short time, it can get starters good at getting up and running and writing their own QTP code in a more organized fashion. With over 400 pages of content spread over 32 chapters, this is a wonderful book for newbies that want to get to QTP scripting right away. This book is designed to teach you QTP from the beginning and serves as being both a reference text as well as a tutorial. Its intended to be read from the beginning to the end, in order. Clearly, this book is the best source out there for beginners and intermediate QTP Engineers, but there is a lot that even experienced engineers will find beneficial.
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just bought the book.
And I am sure you will enjoy reading it as much as I did :)
Anshoo, Can you please tell me is this book witten on current version of QTP. 9.0 and above
Please advise
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I think when Tarun started writing this book, QTP v9.2 was the prominent version. All the features of version 9.2 have been incorporated in the future versions, so to answer your question, yes the book was written from a standpoint of version 9.2+.
I hope I answered your question :)
If you have any concerns, please feel free to use the comments section and I will try to reply as soon as possible.
I’m using this book for some months now in conjunction with QTP9.5. It’s not the authors fault, but some of the suggested code snippets work extremely slow with QTP in a larger testing context, e.g. I was doing some extensive data sorting and comparison using several instances and methods of the DataTable object as descriped in chapter 4 of this book. Eventually I was 1000 times slower than an equivalent .Net application. As said, it’s not the Tarun’s fault, but I’d like to stress to be careful to not waste your time in debugging and testing but to do some performance extrapolation or performance comparisons with Anshoo’s code examples like published on this website.
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