Should I use QTP??

[hogmoss]

I have been doing some research about QTP and have not been able to find a definite answer; others I have spoken with say QTP is not the way to go.

What I am trying to do is test a 'pipeline' of tools that move process and move data from an .mdb, extract the data and parse it out into tables in a SQL database. My question is all of these tools run via 'faceless operation', there is no GUI; each tool, there is six, knows when to process the data by a trigger on the state of each file.

Is QTP the best tool to use to 'manually' start each tool, process the data and then start the next tool - taking the data to the 'finished' state? Again there is no GUI to reference in testing.

Thanks, I apologize if I posted this in the wrong place - first post

[Jackomcnabb]

It doesn't look like you need to use QTP just to automate the start of tests, I would go with Dos/unix to control the running of the scripts

[hogmoss]

Thanks, I was pretty sure that QTP was not the best choice but those in my group prefer it; in order for me not to use it I had to show that it was not the best choice.