Test Automation Ecstasy

In IT industry, the term RPA is keep on hearing all sides of the walls for a while; and I was so confused about What's the difference from the test automation tools in the market and what's more into it. I did some search, understanding, and writing this post to share with you all. If I am not correct, PLEASE correct me. Traditional Test Automation: First, we have to recall the test automation tool QTP or UFT (Initially developed by Mercury Interactive Corporation(MIC) after WinRunner, then sold to HP, and again MicroFocus acquired from HP now). If you look into the architecture of this tool, MIC was trying to convert the testers into more efficient testers i.e. Testers were executing the test cases manually for regression suites, performance suites, etc. which had lot of repetitive tasks done by human testers instead of concentrating into new ideas or bug finding strategies to improve the quality of the product.  Thus WinRunner was introduced but it was demanding m...

In the CI (Continuous Integration) world, we would be in the position to trigger UFT/QTP scripts from outside of ALM/QC and there we may have 2 options like; 1. Running UFT tests stored in plain Windows File System folder 2. Running UFT tests stored in ALM Both these options are being utilized by lot of testers effectively and working great. Here I would like to give some light on what if we need to update results to particular test set instance in ALM while triggering tests from outside of ALM.  You should have seen the result options in the dialog which pops up when we are trying start running from UFT/QTP itself and we will select the option and hit OK to start running. Here we need to select those options from API. VBScript: Sub LaunchAndRunUFT()     Dim oUFT, appUFTResults, uftTestParamDef, uftTestParams, oFSO          'Launch UFT     Set oFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")     Set oUFT = Cre...