Introduction on Automation

• Automation is nothing but automating the manual actions through scripting with appropriate objects of the application.
• QTP is one of such Test Automation Tools. It is developed my Mercury Interactive in 2002. And, acquired by HP (Hewlett-Packard) in 2007. QTP provides Functional test and regression test automation.
• It can be able to test windows and web applications. Using add-ins, it can be used for special environments also.
• It provides multilingual support. It supports multi-byte character languages such as Chinese and Japanese also.
• Because of its wide-range of capabilities, QTP is widely used by many companies to automate their software testing activities.