After QuickTest Professional Unplugged & And I Thought I Knew QTP, our QTP maestro Tarun Lalwani has come up with another book Descriptive Programming Unplugged . This time it is written in collaboration with Anshoo Arora. Tarun has kindly offered a review copy of this book to LearnQTP.
Here is a gist of what to expect from this book –
- First, it is not for absolute beginners of QTP or VBScript. It assumes you have basic knowledge of both. However, this book can be considered as an excellent supplement to your beginner’s QTP training classes.
- The book is neatly divided into 18 chapters with 480 pages.
- Object identification has always been a pet peeve of anybody who has worked on QTP. Addressing that concern, this time the duo has mainly focused on Object identification techniques.
- HP introduced Visual Relation identifiers with the introduction of QTP 11. There is an entire chapter dedicated on that concept.
- You will get to learn Object identification using XPath, CSS in detail.
- Not sure if it was the effect of my suggestion but Tarun and team chose to dedicate a chapter on Web Extensibility this time.
- The book focuses on practical approaches and the generic issues found in day to day working of the tool. As in the earlier books, there are nuggets hidden throughout.
- There are a lot of code snippets used throughout the book. These snippets can be downloaded from KnowledgeInbox
If I were the author I would have named it, Object Identification Unplugged 🙂 I have always whole heartedly recommended Tarun’s book to anyone who has ever asked me about ‘List of books on QTP’. This book will be an addition to that list.
Where can you buy this book from?
This book is available for $52.9 for people in US while for Rs 593 in India.
- If you are in India – You can buy this book from FlipKart
- If you are in US – You can buy this book from Amazon US
- If you are elsewhere – Check with KnowledgeInbox
Now before you hit the buy button, you may want to try your luck in the contest below since we are giving away 3 free copies of this book to three lucky readers.
Contest: Here’s how you can get the book for free
Tarun has offered 3 copies for the readers of LearnQTP. We thought it would be fun to run a small contest for all those who want this book.
Contest is over and the results are out. The three lucky winners are
- radhika.b***e@gmail.com
- shreyasshirg***e@yahoo.co.in
- hazel.a.ds***a@gmail.com
From the email ids, it looks like the ladies had a field day today. 🙂 Check the video below for the draw process we followed. (Click the full screen button on bottom right to view in full mode)
Finally received the copy.It would definitely help to increase knowledge about advanced descriptive programming.Thanks Ankur, Tarun.
Looking forward to getting a copy of the book. Object identification becomes more difficult with each change in browsers we support. Hope this book gives us the tools to crack this.
thank you mr tarun for code
Looking forward for brief articles on every feature 11.5 UFT. Also finger crossed for contest
Thanks Ankur for letting us know about this book. very informative
I would like to know more about object orientation techniques and how effectively can we use descriptive programming to get the desired results which ultimately improves the quality of the software in minimal time frame.
I would be excited to get a copy of the new QTP book. The last one is a great resource.
Really interested in learning more about descriptive programming .Thanks for the give away . Appreciated :thumbup
I learned a lot from this blog, everytime I need something I come here to search for it. keep up the great work!
I have ordered Tarun Lalwani’s all books sofar and everything is composed with great examples and real time examples and situations.
I’ve been working to extend my QTP knowledge by learning descriptive programming. This book would be an obvious resource to help achieve that.
I have gone through with QTP Unplugged. It’s very good book on QTP. I am curious to know, will this book be helpful in automating REST web service?
I would like to learn mobile automation using QTP.
Thanks Ankur, for the information, i will definitely go through the book.
Thanx Ankur..as usual ur posts are so relevent and helpful for me. thanks for let us know abt this book. Can you please tell me name of Tarun and anshoo’s first book. Actually i am searching a book for qtp n descriptive both.
Regards
Padmini
@Padmini – Thank You. I am glad to be of help. I have mentioned both the books at the top of this post.
Thanks for the chance to win!
It looks like this book is good for intermediate level users in QTP. It will be a great book to have and use it.
Eager to put my hands on to the book!!!!! It will be a great learning experience…Thanks to the authors for putting their hard work to write this book…
Juggling with it to get my copies.. 🙂
i want to learn manual testing and automation from learn atp blog helped me in learning and clearing my doubts
Hope this books will be the benchmakr like other books written by Tarun Lalwani
I would like to learn mobile automation using QTP. If you could cover some information on this in your next book it would be very helpfull. I like all your other books.
Hi Ankur/Tarun/Anshoo,
Thanks a LOT for providing us this book on DP.
Chaitanya
I bought the very first edition of QTP book hoping to win this as supplementary 🙂
Interesting to know that we can script using .Net in QTP.
Eager to grab a copy and thanks for the book.
Books are sources from where one can start journey towards greatest possible success in life, and in form of such an experimenting book with lot of practical exposure readers would be benefited in every way.
Thanks for this book, hope will receive a copy of it 🙂
Good to hear
Hi,
I have not see the book. Once I see and go through the book then I will able to comment on the content of the book.
Thanks
Bipin Dash
It is great to know that a book on object identification is available.
As they say, with great power comes great responsibility. Same way with new technology, comes more responsibility to use it sensibly, and take it to new levels in the world of sensibly and robustly tested for quality, next generation software products.
Tarun, if this new book is anything like your superb “QuickTest Professional Unplugged”, then you and your co-author have a winner! Good luck!
Hi Ankur,
I have decided to buy this book, but Flipkart is showing ‘Out of Stock’ please let me know how i can get it.
Regards
Sunil
@Sunil Das: Looks like as of today May 27th, FlipKart is out-of-stock, you can get the book from InfiBeam InfiBeam is another one of the reputed eCommerce stores of India.
I am leaving this comment in hope of winning the free copy of the book , so that I can read it and then submit the genuine feedback .
cheers ,
Abhi
I have read both of Tarun’s book.And i love them. I hope readers like me will found this new book helpful as well.Object identification is a key in automation and topics like xpath will definitely help.looking forward to grab a copy soon.
I mean to say … If you haven’t written this post .. We won’t be knowing about this book .. So thanks ankur. Special thanks to Tarun and Anshoo for publishing a book on descriptive programming
I prefer automating my test cases.I know the basics of QTP and VB Script and this book by Tarun and Anshoo will be definitely an additional boost towards my learning of QTP. Hope I can get the free copy soon 🙂
gr8 book to have. This will be really use full for all qtp automation engineers
I’m really interested in learning more about the object identification techniques.
Thanks Ankur for writing a book on descriptive programming . it is very useful for automation tester like me.
ah No! It is not written by me but by Tarun and Anshoo.