Question

We have at work a Hudson machine that acts as a build server for a Java Swing Project. The build process is based on Ant scripts (and not Maven).

Has anyone integrated tests from QuickTest Professional is such configuration?

In other words: Is it possible to execute qtp tests automatically via Ant?

Answer 1

Not sure about your particular setup, but QTP has an automation API which can be used to drive QTP itself. Below is an example VBScript snippet you could drop into a .vbs file and call from the command line.

Dim qtApp 'As QuickTest.Application ' Declare the Application object variable Dim qtTest 'As QuickTest.Test ' Declare a Test object variable  Set qtApp = CreateObject('QuickTest.Application') ' Create the Application object qtApp.Launch ' Start QuickTest qtApp.Visible = True ' Make the QuickTest application visible  qtApp.Open 'C:\Temp\simple_test', True ' Open the test in read-only mode  ' set run settings for the test Set qtTest = qtApp.Test qtTest.Run ' Run the test  WScript.StdOut.Write 'Status is:' & qtTest.LastRunResults.Status ' Check the results of the test run qtTest.Close ' Close the test  Set qtResultsOpt = Nothing ' Release the Run Results Options object Set qtTest = Nothing ' Release the Test object Set qtApp = Nothing ' Release the Application object 

The following link, Integrating QTP…, describes a setup for integrating QTP with Ant and CruiseControl.