Ad ins, Use of add-ins, what are add in in QTP



Ad ins, Use of add-ins, what are add in in QTP

What is Add-ins?

QTP needs Add in for identifying the object of any particular environment. QTP 9.2 have 3 Add-ins by default-:

  1. Web
  2. ActiveX
  3. VB

Some other Add-ins available for QTP 9.2 are the followings:

  1. TE – Terminal Emulator
  2. .NET
  3. Java
  4. SAP
  5. Siebel
  6. Stingray
  7. VisualAge
  8. WebServices

QTP don't need any Add-in if it require to work on Standard Windows Application.

Add-ins only required or loaded while starting the QTP.

While starting the QTP we generally come through the Add-in manager, where we can choose the add-ins according to our requirement of test script. Generally QTP load the Add-ins name and their description from Window Registry. Let us see how we can retrieves it and change it.

Look below its the screen of Add-ins manager which will showing on starting up. Here we can notice the add in manager shows the list of all present add – ins and if we click on any of available add-ins name then Add-ins description field will also shows the associated description related to that particular Add in.

Use of add-ins
Use of add-ins


Let us see where the information is getting saved:-

  • Go to Start Menu → Now Run and then Hit the Enter
  • On Run Window, Input the Value regedit and click on the Button OK
  • In Windows Registry Editor, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Mercury Interactive \ QuickTest Professional \ Add-In Manager
  • Click on any Add-in folder. You would be able to see the ‘Description’ and ‘Display Name’ properties and their values (as per displaying in given below screens)
Ad ins
Ad ins


You can change the description by double click on it and change it properly. Again check the add in first window to check your made changes.






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