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3 Different Ways to Create Random Numbers in QTP

October 11th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Basic Stuff | QTP Concepts - (1 Comments)

Many a times you would come across the need to create Random Numbers in your script. And this random number requirement would come in different flavors – you might need to create a random number of a certain length, or you might want a random number within a specific range, or you might just need

2 Different Ways to Create Global Variables in QTP

October 9th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Basic Stuff | QTP Concepts - (6 Comments)

Did you ever face any situation where you needed to create global variables in QTP so that these global values can be used across multiple actions/functions within your test script? How did you tackle the problem then? If you would have noticed, QTP doesn’t provide any direct method to create global variables. But you can

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4 Different Ways to Associate Function Libraries to your QTP Scripts

September 22nd, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Basic Stuff - (34 Comments)

Most of the times, when you are creating test scripts or are designing a new QTP Framework, you would be trying to come up with reusable functions which you would have to store in the function library. Now, in order to use this function

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How to Encrypt Passwords using QTP

September 6th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Basic Stuff - (5 Comments)

This article covers the different aspects of password encryption in QTP. It talks about why password encryption may be needed, how to encrypt passwords using QTP and how to use the encrypted passwords in our scripts. Lets discuss all these points one by one.

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QTP Terminal Emulator(TE) Add-In Configuration For Hummingbird Host Explorer

August 21st, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Basic Stuff - (10 Comments)

Terminal Emulators and QTP A Terminal Emulator is a program that allows a computer to access legacy applications running on Mainframe computers. These are various Terminal Emulator applications such as Hummingbird HostExplorer, Attachmate EXTRA!, NetManage RUMBA etc that allow a system to access the applications running on Mainframe machines.

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All About Regular Expressions in QTP

August 14th, 2011 | Posted by Anish Pillai in QTP Basic Stuff | QTP Concepts - (4 Comments)

What is a Regular Expression? A regular expression (also known as regexp) is a text that consists of patterns of characters used to identify strings (the string should contain the pattern(s) defined in the regular expression as a sub-string).