This Book covers below topics
* Importance of Software Testing
* Basics of Quality Assurance (QA) in Software Development
* Explains below Terms used in Software Testing.
o Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
o Functional & Non-functional Testing
o Testing methods (whitebox, blackbox and Greybox)
o Testing levels (Unit Testing, Integration Testing, System testing, Regression testing, Alpha Testing, Beta testing)
o Testing Artifacts (Test plan, Traceability matrix, Test suite, Test case)
o Software Test life cycle
o Bug Tracking

* Writing Good Test Cases and Finding Bugs effectively
* Tips and Tricks for doing AdHoc Testing
* Best practices in Software Testing
* Importance of Software Test Automation using tools such as QTP
* Need of Domain Knowledge for Software Testers
* Software Test Automation tool evaluation
* The need for having development/programming knowledge for Software Testers
* Software Testing Questions and Answers
* Introduction to QTP
* How to Learn QTP?
* Understanding Object Repository
* Different Types of Object Repositories- Local and Shared
* Associating Repositories
* Understanding Action Iteration and Test Iteration
* Required Steps/Processes in QTP Automation
* Best Practices in QTP Automation
* Scheduling QTP Script Execution
* Basics of vbscript
* Links Useful for learning QTP
* KeyWord Driven Testing and Framework in QTP
* Descriptive Programming in QTP - Advantages and Disadvantages
* Tips for doing effective QTP script Development
* Recording Modes - Normal, Analog and Low level recording
* Run Mode- Update Run and Fast Run
* CheckPoints
* Data Tables - Global and Local Sheets
* QTP Result Window
* Recovery Scenario
* Synchronization Points
* Automation Object Model (AOM)
* Handling Passwords in QTP Scripts
* Managing Object Repositories in QTP
* Object Spy in QTP
* QTP methods and script for reading object properties
* Some Thoughts on QTP Interview
* QTP trial version installation.
* Wish list for the QTP future release
* QTP Questions and Answers

This book was written by Rajamanickam Antonimuthu who is having more than 12 years of experience in Software Development, QualityAssurance and QTP Automation.