What is Business Process Testing framework in QTP?

How to implement Business Process testing framework?

Business Process Testing enables Subject Matter Experts to design quality Assurance tests for an application early in the development cycle and in a Script-free environment.

--This means without knowledge of Programming Business Analysts/un programming departments also can prepare set up of BPT

Business Process Testing uses a new methodology for testing, and in conjunction with testing tools such as Quick Test Professional/win runner

Note: The Business Components module is available only if your Quality Center license includes Business Process Testing.

Advantages of Business Process Testing:

• Cost reduction
• BPT can be prepared in Script free Environment by the Business Analysts
•  Business Process Testing is not dependent on the completion of detailed testing scripts.
•  test automation and automatically generated,
• Easy-to-understand, plain-language test documentation.
• Applications can be tested manually before automated tests are ready.
• Use modular, reusable business component units in multiple business process tests.
• Ongoing test maintenance time and costs are reduced
• QA can take advantage of the sophisticated automated testing capabilities in QTP object hierarchies and application-specific functions that can be packaged as building blocks for use in BPT
• So, here the working partners are SME team and QA team
• Everything about functionalities are documented

Business Process Testing Model:

BPT is based on the creation and implementation of business components using Quality center Business Components module and Test Plan module.

How to create Business components in BPT:

Business components are easily-maintained, reusable units that perform a specific task, and are the building blocks of BPT  

For example, a Normal login Web page.  , 

login component’s are

Step 1: open the application.

Step 2: enter a user name.

Step 3: enter a password

Step 4: click the Submit button

Based on above steps, for Login web page Create business components in the Business Components module. You can use these components to build business process tests even before the application is ready for testing.

Before automated testing resources are available, you can add manual steps in the Design Steps tab of each component and you can run these steps using the Manual Runner.

After automated testing resources are ready, you can convert your manual components to automated components and begin implementing the automated steps for each component .Here observe the below snaps About Flight Reservation As sample App in QTP