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Another reason why HP sucks

by Joe Colantonio March 6, 2013
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ALM/QC – ERROR: Local installation has failed. Contact your System Administrator

by Joe Colantonio March 1, 2013
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In the past few weeks I've gotten several emails asking about a fix for the error "Local installation has failed. Contact your system administrator.For details, see the Loader log file." when trying to login to ALM.
Rather…
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LoadRunner WTF – Error Could not find file C:Program Files\HP\Analysis\dat\db_connection.xsl

by Joe Colantonio February 26, 2013
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I just wanted to give you a quick heads-up if anyone else is seeing this behavior. If you are running a standalone instance of LoadRunner VUGEN with either the Web or Web Services protocol and are getting…
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UFT-QTP-Sprinter: Error Object does not support this property or method

by Joe Colantonio February 22, 2013
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Are you trying to record against a web application using either QTP or Sprinter and keep getting an error message "Errors on this webpage might cause it to work incorrectly"? Are most of the errors "Object doesn't…
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UFT – What is an API test type?

by Joe Colantonio February 19, 2013
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This is an excerpt from my book "The UFT API Testing Manifesto" that I'm trying to complete. Still not sure if I should just blog the whole book, make the book available as a free…
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JoeColantonio.Com is Currently Underwater !!

by Joe Colantonio February 14, 2013
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Thanks to the recent blizzard here in Southern New England, our home lost power for an extended period of time, which caused our heating pipes to freeze and burst. Unfortunately, as (rotten) luck would have…
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QTP/UFT – Three Ways to Minimize Virtual Memory Issues

by Joe Colantonio February 8, 2013
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Have you ever encountered virtual memory issues when running long QuickTest Professional or Unified Functional testing scripts? They tend to occur while running either long overnight tests, or tests that have a ton of iterations. (If…
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Selenium 101 – 6 Tools to Help You with Object Recognition

by Joe Colantonio February 4, 2013
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Meet Ven Dor Tool. Ven Dor Tool is a test automation engineer whose tool of choice up until this point in his career has been QuickTest Professional.
I'm sure we can all understand…
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HP Service Test 11.5 – New Critical Patch (SOAST_00083) Released

by Joe Colantonio January 30, 2013
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Although HP released Service Test 11.50 a little over a month ago they have just made available service pack 11.51(SOAST_00083). This service pack is critical so I recommend Service Test 11.5 engineers install…
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UFT 11.5 – New Critical Patch: Enables Support for Windows 8 and IE 10

by Joe Colantonio January 29, 2013
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With the release of the critical UFT 11.5 Service Pack 11.51 (UFT_00001) Unified Functional Testing now supports Windows 8, IE 10 and more.
I've been getting a ton of emails asking when Windows 8…
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