License Management

[jeffwilkerson]

Is it standard practice that two QTP licenses are needed to allow one engineer to be efficient. It is my understanding that QTP controls the entire PC when executing scripts so if you want the engineer to keep developing two licenses would be needed. Are there any workarounds for this? I find it hard to believe that everyone just buy's more licenses.

Jeff

[Ankur]

The projects I have worked, generally had 10+ licenses at at time so I never really faced this problem.

If you have crunch of licenses; you can probably do the development work in the day time and leave it for execution in the night time (I assume the batch can run by itself unattended)

[jeffwilkerson]

Thanks for the quick feedback. I have had teams of automation engineers and we have always had plenty of licenses for each engineer. I am now building a new team and it is curious that two licenses are really required to develop and execute at the same time. If you look at it that way, HP is requiring the purchase of two licenses just for one person to be efficient unless there is some workaround that I am not aware of.