Mobile Cloud in ALM with HP's QC and QTP

Mobile applications are became business's vital necessity in the modern world. Now all most all enterprise are depended upon mobile application. To fulfill the industries requirement many large scale enterprise and SME's are investing huge capital to build very rich and up-to date mobile apps.

The volume of mobile apps development for different mobile platforms like ios, android, Ovi, meego etc are a very expensive and to confirm it is working fine in a particular mobile at end user part is not only a expensive task but also very time taking activity. On the top of that you need to sale your mobile apps to the highly volatile market before any other service provider release the similar feature apps in a very lesser price.

To test and confirm your mobile apps are working as per your desire in different mobile platform is bit expensive in manual precess. To make the process easy and automated DeviceAnywhere and Perfecto Mobile gives a mobile cloud based environment where your mobile apps can upload and integrate with many mobile platforms.

In the recent news, DeviceAnywhere, the industry leader in end-to-end mobile application testing platforms, announced expanded support for HP application testing environments with integrations to the latest versions of HP Quality Center (QC) and QuickTest Professional (QTP). Which make the people faster and dynamic to test the mobile application by sitting any where in the world.

In the same context, Eran Yaniv, CEO at Perfecto Mobile said "It is our mission to address these challenges with MobileCloud for QTP, the first mobile test automation solution fully integrated with HP QTP.” MobileCloud for QTP is a fully integrated mobile test automation add-in within HP QTP, combining native QTP scripting and flow control with Perfecto’s cloud-based automated mobile testing solution. The integration enables enterprises to easily extend their functional testing environment to cost-effectively support mobile applications".

With this drastic change in mobile apps testing in cloud with HP QTP and QC would definitely give us an erroneous free mobile apps.

What is QTP ?

Being a Business Development Lead. I have assigned few technology including QTP where my job will be to set up new business and spring up the existing one. Despite the fact that Mindfire Solutions has successfully carried out many QTP projects for different clients in different domain including supply chain management, business process development and all, I had still in a bit dark corner of this technology.

To break the ignorance barrier I did some research while I take this business in my account like, what exactly the QTP is ?, How it serves different industries ? And in the other notes, keep asking many other questions like, is it worth for the QA people to dirty their hand with QTP testing ? Is it judicious for clients to spend so much of money to get a license of QTP ? Is it better than manual testing ? What the heck this QTP is? etc and etc.

I have accumulate some information and try to put together here.

QTP or Quick Test Professional is very versatile product of HP. This software provides functional and regression test automation for software applications and its environments. HP QuickTest Professional can be used for enterprise quality assurance. It is backing up almost all application and platform. The latest innovation of HP QTP is its add-ins which is supports smartphones and tablets that to in mobile cloud environment. The biggest advantage here for the mobile cloud with QTP add-ins is, it supports VB scripting as similar way it is supporting in any other scenario and platforms.

HP Quick Test Professional provides two types of environments to run the automation testing as “Record and play” and “Descriptive Programming” using VB script. It uses the Visual Basic Scripting Edition (VBScript) scripting language to specify a test procedure, and to manipulate the objects and controls of the application under test.

As it is very powerful testing tool almost all enterprise including SMEs and Large scale industries are prefer to use HP QTP to test their applications and the products. Below are my understanding why people preferred to go with HP QTP to test their products and applications in spite of high cost license.

• Within very fewer time periods one can run many test cases in QTP.
• In case of repeated testing automated test is best and HP QTP is one of the best tool.
• It can be performed simultaneously on different operating systems including mobile platforms.
• It is easy for volume testing.
• Data Driven Testing is easier with more options in HP QTP

List below are the top 5 QTP blogs where you can find more interesting information about QTP

http://askqtp.blogspot.com

http://www.onlineqtptraining.com/blog

http://www.testoxide.com/blog.html

http://testinginterviewquestionsandanswers.com

http://www.learnqtp.com