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Feature Comparison
Test Design Studio offers many features that extend beyond the functionality available from QuickTest® Professional alone. The following feature chart helps explain those differences.
Test Design Studio vs. QuickTest® Pro
| Feature | Test Design Studio | QuickTest® Pro |
| Automation Record & Playback | ||
| Record Scripts | 1 |
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| Playback Scripts | 1 |
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| File Handling | ||
| QuickTest® Pro Scripts | 2 |
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| Quality Center Scripted Components | 2 |
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| Open Multiple Scripts Simultaneously | ||
| VBScript or QFL Libraries | ||
| QuickTest® Pro Object Repositories | 3 |
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| Other File Types (Not Already Listed) | ||
| IntelliSense and Statement Completion | ||
| Member Lists | 4 |
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| Parameter Information for Function Calls | 5 |
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| ToolTips for Language Elements on Mouse Hover | ||
| Utility Class Member Lists (e.g. QCUtil) | ||
| User-Defined Class Member Lists | ||
| COM-Based Class Member Lists | ||
| Language Keywords in Member List | ||
| Function Names in Member List | ||
| Variable Names in Member Lists | ||
| Parameter Names in Member Lists | ||
| Object Repository Entries | 6 |
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| Dictionary Key Lists | ||
| Parameter Value Lists | ||
| Available Classes for 'New' Keyword | ||
| Available ProgIDs for 'CreateObject' Statement | ||
| Lookup of 'RegisterUserFunc' | ||
| Documentation of User-Defined Functions and Classes | 7 |
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| Language Syntax Highlighting | ||
| QuickTest® Professional VBScript | ||
| VBScript | ||
| WinRunner® or TSL | ||
| MS-DOS Batch File (BAT) | ||
| Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) | ||
| HTML | ||
| Configuration Files (INI) | ||
| Java | ||
| Jscript | ||
| Perl | ||
| PHP | ||
| SQL | ||
| XML Technologies (XML/XSL/XSD) | ||
| Advanced Editing Features | ||
| Code Outling or Folding | ||
| Code Snippets | 8 |
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| Two-Way and Four-Way Split Views | ||
| Macro Recording/Playback | ||
| Content Dividers | ||
| Navigation Bar | ||
| Line Modification Tracking | ||
| Side-By-Side Document Views | ||
| Advanced Editing Commands (e.g. Tabify Lines, Delete Horizontal White Space) | ||
| File Searching | ||
| Match Case | ||
| Match Whole Word | ||
| Restrict Hidden Text (e.g. folded text) | 9 |
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| Regular Expression Matching | ||
| Wildcard Matching | ||
| Search in Selection | ||
| Search All Open Documents | ||
| Search Unopened Files on the File System | ||
| Search Unopened Files in Quality Center Server | ||
| Results Window for Matches | ||
| Additional Functionality | ||
| Project-Based Organization of Testing Assets | ||
| Framework Documentation Generator | ||
| Object Browser | ||
| Automated Build Process | ||
| Hooks for External Tools | ||
| GUI-Based Web Extensibility Configuration | ||
| Template-Based File Generation | ||
| Integration with Quality Center |
Notes
- Test Design Studio is not a replacement for recording and playing your scripts, and no application can replace this capability. You must have licenses to QuickTest® Professional for that functionality.
- Test Design Studio provides many editing capabilities for your scripts, but not all functionality can be replicated. For instance, Keyword view is not supported and you cannot create calls to new actions.
- Test Design Studio provides a read-only graphical viewer for object repository files, but you must you QuickTest® Professional to add new objects or edit existing objects.
- The QuickTest® Professional member list does not list all available members in a language.
- QuickTest® Professional only displays basic names for parameters, where Test Design Studio can include detailed information about each individual parameter.
- Test Design Studio includes additional functionality to assist users that rely heavily on descriptive programming.
- QuickTest® Professional provides very limited support for documenting your user-defined code. Test Design Studio has extensive XML-style comments that provide in-depth documentation capabilities.
- QuickTest® Professional performs some auto-completion, but is not nearly as feature-rich as the code snippets feature in Test Design Studio.
- Since QuickTest® Professional also does not support code outlining, it is not possible to support this feature.