Running QTP tests using Python

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QTP provides an interface called the automation object model. This model is essentially a COM interface providing a bunch of objects that can be used to automate QTP. The full object list is available in the QuickTest Professional Automation documentation.

Running QTP tests from the command line is useful for doing scheduled automatic testing. If you use a continuous integration system to do automatic builds of your software, you can run your QTP tests on the latest build.

The following is a Python script that is able to run a test and print out Passed or Failed. It is a direct port of example code in the documentation written in VBScript

1import win32com, win32com.client
2
3qtp = win32com.client.Dispatch("QuickTest.Application")
4
5# starts up QTP
6qtp.Launch() 
7
8# make the QTP window visible
9qtp.Visible = True
10
11# Open a test, replace the path 
12qtp.Open("C:\Tests\test1")
13
14# to open a QTP test in Quality Center
15# qtp.Open(r"[QualityCenter] Subject\FolderName\QTPScript")
16
17# create a RunResultsOptions object
18qtResultsOpt = win32com.client.Dispatch("QuickTest.RunResultsOptions")
19
20# set the location to where the results will be save
21qtResultsOpt.ResultsLocation = "C:\Test\test1\res"
22
23qtp.Test.Run(qtResultsOpt)
24
25print "Test has %s" %qtp.Test.LastRunResults.Status
26
27# close the Test
28qtp.Test.Close()
29
30# quit QTP
31qtp.Quit()

Running QTP tests using Python

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