What are the challenges while automating the test cases in QTP?

Automation with QTP does involve lot of challenges. Based upon my experience I am stating some of the frequent challenges that may be faced by QTP engineers.

1.  Automation of third party controls like infragistic controls in .net based applications.
2. Automation of the PDF file comparison.
3. Working with the controls inside tables.
4. Selecting the drop down value will not trigger the onchange event in webpage.
5. Automation of the web applications involving frames/iframes/framesets.
6. All edit boxes having same properties..
7. Elements like checkboxes, buttons, radiobuttons inside nested tables.

This is the list of most frequent challenges faced in automation projects. You can easily handle these challenges if you know how to access native properties of the objects.

QTP does provide the way to access native properties and methods using object property.

You can solve most of the issues in web application testing using html DOM in QTP. Please try to avoid index to identify any object as this will make your script very weak.

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