Introduction to QTP(Quick Test Professional)

QTP stands for Quick Test Professional and is a product of Hewlett Packard (HP). QTP was owned by Mercury Interactive and later it was acquired by HP. Its original name was Astra Quick Test and later named as Quick Test Professional (QTP). It provides functional and regression test automation for software applications and environments. QTP is now Known as HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and can be used for enterprise quality assurance.

This tool helps testers to perform an automated functional testing. HP QTP uses Visual Basic Scripting (VB Script) for automating the applications. The Scripting Engine is available as part of the Windows OS therefore, no need to install exclusively.

QTP is a licensed/commercial tool owned by HP and is most popular tool available in the market. It compares the actual and expected result and reports the results in the execution summary