We are planning to implement QTP in agile world? Is it really helpful? What is its Its benefits/limitations factoring people are trending towards BDD/TDD?
On Wednesday, 11 May 2011 11:17:08 UTC+8, Leonardo Ribeiro Oliveira wrote: > > Hi guys, > > After a long time, I'm back! As I told here some months ago, I was going > to start working on a new project where I would automate tests with > Selenium and other tools, but this project didn't happened and I decided to > quit the company and joined ThoughtWorks. > I've doing real agile development and learning about BDD, TDD, continuous > integration and about other automation tools like Selenium/Webdriver, > Watir, Cucumber and others. That's the reason I started to think that QTP > have to change a lot or it will lose a lot of market share. > > These are my main points why I believe QTP have to change: > > - Agile development is getting bigger and bigger. > - QTP can't handle continuous deployment, the tests takes to much time to > run and can't be easily integrated with Hudson, CruiseControl or other CI > tools. > - QTP can't handle BDD (it's possible with BPT but it's really expensive > and doesn't work very well). > - VBScript is and old language and doesn't support a lot of features > supported by newer languages like Python and Ruby. > - VBScript is not used for development, so DEVs and QAs can't code on the > same language and improve knowledge sharing. > > What do you think about that? I really interested in your views. > > *** I will think about new points and add here later *** > > Regards, > Leonardo Ribeiro Oliveira > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google "QTP - HP Quick Test Professional - Automated Software Testing" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/MercuryQTP?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "QTP - HP Quick Test Professional - Automated Software Testing" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
