Real projects examples for you to learn Automated Testing_QTP, Selenium, TestPartner, RFT, XML

This blog will show you real projects examples for you to learn the following Automation testing tools:
- Quick Test Professional (QTP),
- TestPartner (TP),
- Extensible Markup Language (XML),
- Selenium (Selenium-IDE),
- Rational Functional Tester (RFT).

QTP and TestPartner are similar GUI automation testing tools, and they are both easy to learn compare to RFT which I used before. RFT uses JavaScript or VB.NET, QTP uses VBScript, and TestPartner uses VBA (more details about VB family and JavaScript, please refer to post#7). Among the three, QTP has the biggest job market. As a QA person, we should master at least one of the automation testing tools and one of the scripting language.

Selenium is a portable software testing framework for web applications. Selenium provides a test domain specific language (DSL) to write tests in a number of popular programming languages, including C#, Java, Ruby, Groovy, Python, PHP, and Perl. In this blog, we will focus on Selenium IDE, which is a complete Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Selenium tests. It is implemented as a Firefox extension, and allows recording, editing, and debugging tests.

The difference between Selenium and QTP/TestPartner/RFT is Selenium is an open source software, i.e., it is free! See more information at post#29.

If you decide to learn automation testing, then you can follow this blog. I will share detailed test cases/scripts with you while I am learning, and I am looking forward to learn from you too, so don’t be shy to comment on my posts.

My current company uses TestPartner 6.3 to test an Ultrasound work station (a Windows Application, i.e., software, can be installed on any computer). Our major focus is to automate measurement and export testing, since we have thousands measurement types and hundreds export combinations in the app., which make manual testing very very time consuming. We will also use XML scripts (embedded in Engineering mode) to test our real-time Ultrasound machines. The Ultrasound machine supports 10 different types of transducers, we need to repeat hundred test cases for each type of the transducers, so to automate the transducer tests will save us a huge amount of time.

I also test some websites at home, just for learning purpose. In this blog, I will show you how to test a website called YouPlayOff. I will use QTP and Selenium to test this website, and you can download QTP 9.0 from the pirate bay and Selenium-IDE from Selenium website.

After we get familiar with QTP, Selenium and TestPartner, then RFT should not be a problem anymore.