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QTP Add-In Manager [3]: How to uninstall or remove add-ins from QTP

November 26th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Basic Stuff - (0 Comments)

In this article you’ll see how you can uninstall Add-ins from QTP (To add new add-ins in QTP, read How to install or add add-ins other than the default ones in QTP). To uninstall an already installed Add-in, you need to open the QTP setup and modify the same.

QTP Add-In Manager [2]: How to install or add add-ins other than the default ones in QTP

November 26th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Basic Stuff - (5 Comments)

Did you notice that when you install QTP, you have ActiveX, Visual Basic and Web add-ins installed/available by default. Now there would be many situations where you are working on some application which needs some additional add-ins to be installed. For example, let us assume that you want to automate a Java Application

QTP Add-In Manager [1]: How to Enable or Disable Add-In Manager at Startup in QTP

November 22nd, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Concepts - (4 Comments)

To create any test script in QTP, you need to have one or more add ins associated with your QTP session. Usually when you open QTP, it first displays the Add-in Manager Screen where you can select your desired add-ins. Once you click on OK button, then only QTP main screen is displayed.

How to send emails using QTP from Microsoft Outlook

November 18th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in Advanced Concepts - (11 Comments)

In the previous article, we saw how to send emails from  QTP via Gmail & Yahoo Mail. There we wrote the code that connects to GMail/Yahoo SMTP Server and sends mails to any email id. But if you have MS Outlook installed in your machine, you can directly use Outlook to send emails to

How to send emails using QTP from Gmail and Yahoo

November 17th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in Advanced Concepts - (15 Comments)

This article shows how you can use QTP to send mails to any email address using email service providers such as GMail, Yahoo Mail etc. Automatically sending mails through QTP can be a very nice enhancement to your automation framework. For example, after you run your test scripts, you need to email test run reports

How to capture application screenshot and display it in test results

November 13th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Concepts - (3 Comments)

A common feature that QTP testers are often asked to implement is to capture the application screenshot every time an error occurs during test run. This is definitely a good to have feature in your automation framework because – a) When a script fails, you would have a proof that it failed due to

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How To Block Keyboard and Mouse Inputs while Running QTP Scripts

November 12th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in General - (3 Comments)

When you are running your Test Scripts, sometimes an accidental button press on your keyboard or mouse may interrupt your run session. To prevent this, QTP 11 provides a method that prevents keyboard and mouse input events from reaching applications.

Easy Way to Delete QTP Result Folders Using Test Results Deletion Tool

November 11th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in General | QTP Basic Stuff - (5 Comments)

Many a times when we are creating a QTP script, we tend to run it many number of times to validate small portions / functionalities in the script. And most of the times while running the test script, we let the settings in Run Dialog box remain as it is. In the Run Dialog Box