13 great tips from HP to fine tune your QTP Actions.

1) You can configure an action for repeated use in your test and in other tests. Select the Reusable Action check box in the Action Properties dialog box (Edit > Action > Action Properties).
2) You can use the ExitAction statement to terminate an action before it finishes running, based on conditions you specify in your test.
3) You can specify test, action, or component parameters to pass values to and from your test or business component, and between actions in your test.
4) You can define test or action parameter variables using the Parameter object and its methods in the Expert View.
5) You can create test, action, or component parameter output values that retrieve values during the run session and store them for use at another point in the run session. You can then use these output values to parameterize a step in your test or business component.
6) NEW!! You can now associate multiple object repositories with an action or application area. In previous versions of QuickTest Professional, you could associate only a single object repository with a test asset.
7) NEW!! You can associate shared object repositories with multiple actions simultaneously, using the Associate Repositories dialog box.
8) NEW!! You can resolve missing resources (such as missing object repositories and actions), using the new Missing Resources pane.
9) You can print a single action or business component from the Keyword View (in table format) or the from the Expert View (in statement format).
10) In addition to Data Table output values, you can output values to environment variables or store a retrieved value in a test, action, or component parameter.
11) You can specify a relative path when calling actions, functions, and other external files associated with or referenced by a test or business component.
12) You can use the Data Driver Wizard to automatically parameterize constants in your action or business component.
13) If you want to add the same comment to every action that you create, you can add the comment to an action template.

QTP TIP :How to convert system date to other date format?

We can use the following code to convert system date to other formats:-


1: MyDate = Date
2: msgbox MyDate
3: MyDay = day(MyDate)
4: MyMonth = Month(MyDate)
5: MyYear = Year(MyDate)
6: msgbox "Date in DD/MM/YYY format is - " & MyDay & "/" & MyMonth & "/" & MyYear
7: msgbox "Date in MM/DD/YYYY format is - " & MyMonth & "/" & MyDay & "/" & MyYear

Explanation:-
1. System date in extracted into variable MyDate
3. day function extracts the day from given date.
4. month function extracts the month from given date.
5. year function extracts the year from given date

QTP Tip | Capture Application Screenshot during Execution

We can certainly capture application screenshots during execution. Use "Capturebitmap" method to accomplish this. For details please refer to QTP help.

QTP Tip | Disable QTP Results Report

There is definitely a way to disable the QTP results report which means no result file would be created even after the execution. This is certainly different from turning off the option "View results when the run session ends"

The solution for this is very simple. Go to Regedit and browse the key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Mercury Interactive\QuickTest Professional\Logger\Media\Report

Change value of Active from 1 to 0 :)