Overview When a manual business process testing (BPT) component is ready to be automated, ALM makes it easy to convert to a QuickTest (QTP) scripted component.  It is even kind enough to give you … more

Tarun Lalwani, author of well-received book “QuickTest Professional Unplugged”, just released a new book titled “And I thought I knew QTP!”.  I just finished it, and am … more

We have spent the last couple of weeks putting together a tool for editing Workflow scripts used with Application Lifecycle Management 11 (ALM).  This is the latest release of the Quality Center … more

Boyd Patterson (President of Patterson Consulting, LLC) just had an article published on the Software Test Professionals site: … more

Summary One of the design goals for TDS3 is to improve how QuickTest scripts are managed in the IDE.  Most file editors are designed to work with one file at a time, but a QuickTest script is … more

Once again, another great feature request from one our users is being integrated into the next release of Test Design Studio! Test Design Studio features extensive support for outlining the various … more

We are happy to provide another feature request in our next release of Test Design Studio.  This feature, while simple, is very useful.  When you press the ‘SPACE’ key after … more

This feature is primarily targeted for use with Enumerations (a.k.a. Enum), but everything you see below will also work with Boolean values since it, too, has a pre-defined list of values (i.e. True … more

I am happy to announce that I will be presenting a session at Software Test Professionals Conference 2011 Fall in Dallas, TX!

Session Title: Improve Automation Code Quality, Clarity, and … more

As part of the ongoing effort to bring Test Design Studio to a new platform, we are having to rewrite a lot of the functionality that is present in Test Design Studio 2.  We are taking the time … more

How you manage your QuickTest® Pro test assets will have a significant impact on the success of your project.  We put together a white paper that discusses project management using either QC/ALM … more

Test Design Studio does a lot that QuickTest® Professional does not!  There are, however, a few elusive items that Test Design Studio does not (or cannot) do.  You can view a feature … more

One of the biggest limitations that QuickTest® Pro users face is that you can only edit a single test at a time.  You can open multiple supporting documents like function libraries, but you … more

One of the new features in the upcoming Test Design Studio 3 release include some updates to how you navigate documents.  Below is a screen shot of a class library for interacting with the … more

HP announced end of life for WinRunner® a couple of years ago.  By this time, most people have migrated over to QuickTest® Professional instead.  Since TDS 3 is a total rewrite of the … more

While the majority of the work going into the Test Design Studio 3 (TDS3) rewrite has focused on reorganizing and updating the base code, we are still bringing some new features and usability … more

Do you think it is time for QTP to die?  Paul Hammant posted on his blog that he thinks so.  He makes some good points, but I disagree. His first point discusses developers not using the … more

The ‘Start Page’ for Test Design Studio includes the ability to display an RSS feed of relevant information.  By default, this feed is based on our general Test Design Studio news feed located … more