Who This Book Is For
This book is for Test Engineers, Test Analysts, Test Consultants, Test Managers and anyone who is interested in learning advanced techniques of problem solving in QTP. This book is also for beginners who have just started with QTP and want to be experts in its use. The book assumes that one has the basic knowledge of QTP and VBScript, if not than it is advised that one should go through the basic help fist. As the main focus of this book is to view the tool from a developers persoectivem the book does not teach how to record and replay script in QTP. Also the book does not discuss about the Keyword view of QTP, which is for non-technical people who don’t want to code in QTP.

What’s New in the Second Edition
QuickTest Professional Unplugged, 2nd Edition comes with all the updates till QTP 11 in a new chapter and few minor fixes in the code. The new chapter covers many of the featuresthat god added over the previous versions of QTP. The chapter also discusses the Object Repository features in details which had seen a major change from QTP 8.X to QTP 9.

About the Author
Tarun Lalwani is a Test Automation & Solutions Architect and the author of the first ever book on QTP named “QuickTest Professional Unplugged”. He has worked on various automated testing projects utilising technologies like VBScript, VB6, VB.Net, C#.NET, Excel and Outlook Macros. He founded KnowledgeInbox.com — a blog targeted towards the QuickTest community. He uses the blog to share his custom APIs, products, articles, tips and tricks with his readers pro bono. He is also a regular contributor at AdvancedQTP and SQA forums. Tarun’s work has been showcased on several websites such as: RelevantCodes.

Tarun was awarded with the ‘Best Feedback Award’ by HP for QTP 11 Beta testing. His book “QuickTest Professional Unplugged” was recognized as the Best Automation Book in the 2nd ATI Automation Honors award. It is the industry’s original set of awards dedicated to software test automation recognizing industry leading tools, resources and practitioners. The ATI Automation Honors awards rely on industry practitioners to identify which tools, resources and people are the best, which have the most significant upgrades and/or which are setting the trends that will help to take software test automation to the next level.