Saturday, 15 February 2014

HP UFT 11.5 tool new features


1. HP UFT Overview


The latest version of HP-QTP that is going to hit the market will be known as HP Unified Functional Testing(UFT) 11.5 .

QuickTest Pro (QTP) (GUI Testing Feature)+ Service Test (ST) (API Testing Feature) = Unified Functional Testing (UFT)


This is going to be a major change on how we see QTP. Going forward, QTP and Service Test will be a part of UFT 11.5 software. Acc. to HP, this has been done to serve end to end testing needs. QTP(GUI testing tool) and Service Test(API testing tool) will be available from a single interface, so you need not download two separate tools from now on.

2. Newly added Action features in UFT


  • Separate action flows
  • Individual data sources
  • Independent input/output parameters

3. Insight Recording

HP UFT Insight breaks down barriers with innovative image-based object recognition, which allows the testing software to recognize and record any application, irrespective of the tool used to build it.
With Image-based object identification you can now learn an object’s (or images) different states and convert that into a recognizable object within the object library.

4. Supports Mobile Testing

Realizing the ‘explosive’ growth of mobile (smart-phones + tablets) platform, HP is putting a lot of focus on this new age tech. UFT 11.5 will provide a better support for mobile testing. With the help of HP UFT Mobile, HP claims that you will be able to create mobile platform agnostic scripts, hence a script created for iOS would be expected to work for Android. The mobile application testing solution will support emulators as well as real devices. The real devices can be sourced from the public cloud of shared real devices and/or private cloud of dedicated real devices.

5. ALM Data for UFT


ALM’s Data Awareness feature enables us to
  • Save multiple relevant sets of data in our ALM project
  • To run A Test with different data configurations, enabling more realistic and data-drive tests of our application

6. API Testing

This is really great feature in this UFT 11.5 tool. where we can test APIs

7. Enhanced Bitmap checkpoint


Validate an image by comparing it to an existing bitmap

8. BPT (Business Process Testing ) with UFT

Now with UFT we can do Business Process Testing without integrating with HP ALM/QC.

9. Enhanced scripting feature with Dot Object


There is a new feature added in Dot Object. We can Set/Get values with child Dot Object methods

10. File content checkpoint


Before UFT 11.5 we used face lot of difficulties to read data from different external files. Now with File content checkpoint we can read the data from different files ex: PDF,HTML, RFT, txt, doc, etc: easily.

11. Loading Function Libraries from HP ALM with LoadFunctionLibrary Method


We can load function library files which are stored in HP ALM during run time.

12. New way to Describe object in UFT


Please see below screen shot for the new way to describe object in UFT.

13. Array Checkpoint


Array checkpoint gives 3 different options to verify the content in array.
  • Fixed
  • Contains
  • All

14. Update in WSDL

If there is any change in WSDL file, we no need to create a new test for that now. UFT has option to update services directly and map arguments.

15. Multiple script Debugging

This was a much needed and requested feature. You will now be able to debug two or more scripts at the same time from within UFT’s IDE.
On top of QTP current debugging capabilities which are limited, but Using this new feature of UFT 11.5 We can able to debug the two or more automation scripts at same time using the UFT 11.5 IDE.

Following panes are greatly added to the HP UFT list of debug features:
The following panes have been added and enhanced:
  • Call Stack – allows you to view info about the methods and functions that are currently in the call stack.
  • Loaded Modules – for API tests, this pane allows you to view info on .dlls that are loaded and executed in API test runs.
  • Threads – For API tests–allows you to view info about threads currently running as part of the run session.
  • Local Variables Pane – allows you to view all the current values and types of variables in their current context.
  • Console Pane – when debugging a script, this pane allows you to run lines of VBScript (for GUI tests) and C# code (for API tests) in your suspended run session.
  • Watch – when debugging, this pane allows you to view the current values ad types of selected variables, properties, and VBScript of C# expressions in a test’s suspended run session.
  • Debug pane – enables you to view the current values and types of variables, properties, and VBScript or C# in a test’s suspended run session.

16. Smart Regular Expressions


There is a new feature added in UFT where we can add regular expression smartly with lot of available options.

17. REST Service


We can load REST service and test it as same as WebService.

18. Share Activities in UFT


Now we can share activities across UFT
  • Sharing it to local (File System)
  • Sharing it to ALM

19. UFT Solutions


Solutions bring together all types of testing documents in to a unified container to organize testing sessions

Ex: you can combine GUI and API tests and components and BPT tests in to one solution


Actions, QTP Tests, Application Areas, API Tests.. etc. have been added in above Solution

20. Run step feature for API tests

For Service Test API test users, this feature is a simple change but an absolutely killer enhancement that’s going to save me a lot of time–the ability to run any step on the canvas areas using the new “Run step” command.

If you have an API test made up of 50 operations, you’ll no longer need to run the whole test from the top. Simply right click on any operation on the Canvas. For instance, selecting “Run step” will run only that operation. Sweet!

21. Supports Open Source CI Systems

HP UFT 11.5 will support open source Continuous Integration(CI) systems like Jenkins and Hudson. For people with non-development background - CI is a practice normally used in a multi-developer environment where all developer codebases are merged with the main codebase several times a day

Downloading UFT 11.5 tool

HP ALM 11.5 is already available now. You can download ALM 11.5 using this link

http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/software.html?compURI=1172122#tab=TAB3
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