FR Project

SIGiST Israel Event

Dani Vainstein

SolMar Knowledge Networks

www.advancedqtp.com

March 2008

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� AdvancedQTP site

� QTP Community, and "First Step" users

� FR Project� FR Project

� Beta Process

� Summary

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� It is a professional information portal for HP QuickTest Professional

� The site provides� End-to-end management of automation projects.� End-to-end management of automation projects.

� Training and education.

� Consulting and integration.

� Staff evaluation and recruitment assistance.

� Other Special Services.

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� Provide a professional hub for test automation professionals and QTP users to further Improve their knowledge and expertise

� Provides unprecedented high-quality professional � Provides unprecedented high-quality professional contents and services in testing and test automation

� An inseparable part of the daily work routine forthousands of QTP users

� Recognized as professional authority worldwide

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� The site was launched in October 2007.

� Today the site includes 5,500 subscribers from more

then 97 countries worldwide.

� The average growth rate is ~42 new subscribers per-

day (~1,200 per-month).

� More than 1,000 visitors per-day.

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� We have identified that more than 40% of the users

are “First Steppers”

� We had many queries on framework from � We had many queries on framework from

intermediate to advance users

� The FR Project idea, is to educate the community,

not just technical issues, but a complete process and

methodology around test automation

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FR Project

� Beginner VBScript tutorials

� More than 6,900 downloads.

� Advanced VBScript Tutorials� Advanced VBScript Tutorials

� More than 4,600 downloads.

� QTips

� Categorized tips for beginner, intermediate and advanced

user levels.

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� The project is like an online course that simulates a "real-world" automation-testing project.

� The project offers a unique opportunity to gain invaluable experience using QTP in real-world projects. experience using QTP in real-world projects.

� The project guides how to implement different types of testing e.g. Negative, Functionality, GUI, Sanity.

� Dealing with complicated UI problems and queries; data and keyword driven issues and distilling system requirements into test cases and, ultimately, code.

� Step-by-step design, use of advanced code techniques and cutting-edge testing methodologies.

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� It is Based on a well known demo application (FR)

� Involving more than 4 years of rich teaching experience.

� Based on a weekly status presentation.

SRS Document as a base of the application requirements. � SRS Document as a base of the application requirements.

� User Challenge.

� Full support for users questions and queries.

� Special Registration.

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� Start date – September 2007

� Due date - Mid January 2008

� Beta Team - ~18 volunteers + Project manager� Beta Team - ~18 volunteers + Project manager

� Feedback Forms

� Timeline Planning

� Summary Report

� FR Beta Forum

� Version Control

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� In the First week 190 requests were received to join the Project.

� HP donated a 5 week free licenses for the participants

� All Beta members reply for users questions� All Beta members reply for users questions

� Lack of licenses and "free" time, especially from the Indian Participants.

� The Project included 15 presentations

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� The Idea of the FR Project started on September 2007.

� Located a potential "First Steps" project manager ( a volunteer from USA, Austin).

� Timelines, Volunteers, Feedback templates, special beta, � Timelines, Volunteers, Feedback templates, special beta, beta participants instructions, beta forum, project forum, design of report template.

� Project promotion started on late October 2007.

� Until March 2008 the FR Project had 545 participants, world wide.

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� Great job guys though i have 1 year of experience in qtp i

learned a lot from this presentation. now its very easy to

design infrastructure for my project. looking forward for

the next presentation...keep up the good work. wonderful

site for QTP Learners...site for QTP Learners...

Sanitareddy Chinnapolu ( India, Bangalore )

� A big thanks from my side and please do continue your

good work. i have seen many QTP tutorial but this is very

very good and informative....

Graham Parker ( Ireland, Letterkenny )

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� Thanks for the great effort. I am new to QTP and am extremely glad to be here. I am looking forward to learning a lot in the coming weeksBertrand Zufferey ( Switzerland, Geneva )

� Thanks to AdvanceQTP team for putting up wonderful effort � Thanks to AdvanceQTP team for putting up wonderful effort in FR Project.Priya Paulraj ( India, Chennai )

� Thanks for your's effort, which gives us lot of confident and more details. Please continue your service.Angelina John ( USA, Piscataway )

� Thanks a lot for allowing me to join in this project. You guys are really marvelous.Lukasz Kozik ( Poland, Krakow )

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� A more complex project for senior professionals

� A sponsored Project on a real application

� Managing groups of projects over the website

� Cooperation with training centers using the website online � Cooperation with training centers using the website online

project as a training tool

� Cooperation with universities on their curriculum for test

automation courses/seminars

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� Online automation projects can be a powerful tool for beginners (“First Steppers”), and advanced level professionals

� Online automation projects can involve people worldwide on a unified platform and central DBworldwide on a unified platform and central DB

� AdvancedQTP is a site where beginners can � Learn how an automation project is designed and implemented

from scratch, and implement in their own projects

� Retrieve valuable information and tips about automation challenges

� AdvancedQTP is a site where every QTP Programmer can ask a question, and receive an answer from the whole QTP community.

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FR Project

SIGiST Israel Event

Dani Vainstein

SolMar Knowledge Networks

www.advancedqtp.com

March 2008

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