I need to learn test automation, using QTP / UFT

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I have some background in programming. Took C++ and object oriented programming course in college, a long time back.

I have no real experience in software test automation and need to learn to use QTP, now named UFT, urgently. I wanted to know how much knowledge of VBScript is needed for it? Could someone recommend a good book on it? Any suggestions / help would be appreciated.

Thank you.

 

[Ken g6]

I wanted to know how much knowledge of VBScript is needed for it?

Not a whole lot. I once wrote a sorting function in a QTP script, and that was an order of magnitude more complex than anything else I ever did with it.

Just get the syntax down and you'll be fine, IMHO. Recording a script will give you most of the syntax you need, except maybe If/Then/Else/End If.

Edit: A quick Google turned up a VBScript reference. IIRC, QTP has its own reference in the help.