Everything you need to know about UFT(QTP) License

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This article will help you if you are on UFT 12.02 or lower versions. If you are UFT v12.50 or above, please check this updated article UFT License – HPE AutoPass

We receive a lot of questions on QTP blog and forums regarding UFT(QTP) licensing and related issues. This post will serve as a guide to know all about UFT(QTP) license.

Your Guide to UFT license

Types of UFT(QTP) license

There are two main types of UFT licenses –

  1. Seat License: This license is tied to the computer on which it is installed. The trial or a demo license of UFT is a seat license which has a validity of 30 days. You don’t require any keys for the trial license.
  2. Concurrent License: This is also known as floating license. This license type requires a concurrent license server to be installed in your office/local network. With concurrent license, a pool of licenses are assigned to the concurrent license server. Anybody in a local network can connect to this pool as long as at least a single license is available. For example – Let’s say your company has purchased 50 concurrent licenses of UFT. All these 50 licenses would be assigned to the license server. Now at any point of time, maximum 50 people in the local network of your company can work on UFT.
    1. Commuter License: This can be said as a special type of concurrent license which can be used when you don’t have access to the license server. In this case, you checkout a license from the concurrent license server for ‘n’ days where n <= 180. A use case for concurrent license can be – say you need to travel on work where you can’t connect to your company’s concurrent license server. In that case, you can check out a license from the server before you leave, go about your work and check-in back the license to the pool. The duration during which the licensed is checked out, it will behave like a seat license on your machine and the number of licenses on the license server will be reduced by one.
    2. Remote Commuter License: This is used when you want a license for a particular machine (say John’s machine) but John’s machine is not able to connect to the license server for checkout purposes. In that case, you would take help of a machine(say Mike’s machine) which IS able to connect to the license server and checkout a license for John’s machine. A detailed illustration is given later in this article.

Locking Code

This is a unique identification code for the machine on which UFT is installed. It is required when you want to install a seat license on your machine. Locking code can be obtained by running the UFT license installation wizard > Selecting ‘Seat license’ > Locking code. Once you get the Locking code, your company rep. should contact HP at this link and request for license keys for your machine.
Check the illustration below to get your machine’s Locking Code.

UFT locking code

If you are on UFT 12 or above, check this link on how to generate locking code for UFT seat license purposes?

LSHOST and LSFORCEHOST variables

While the concurrent license installation wizard in UFT can be used to specify the license server, you can also make use of Windows environment variables to search and connect your UFT windows client with concurrent license servers.

Windows environment variables are available under System properties dialog box > Advanced tab > Environment variables button. The shortcut to access System properties is Windows key + Pause/Break key.

LSHOST can be used to set a preferred concurrent license server (so you can set multiple license servers separated with a semicolon in the User Variables list), while LSFORCEHOST can be used to force or restrict your UFT client to a particular license server. The Variable value box can take IP address or the host name. Please note that the environment variable values are restricted to 64 characters.

UFT LSHOST Variable

How to check-out and check-in a commuter license?

You can checkout a commuter license for your offline use from the concurrent license server, using a utility called WCommute.exe located under C:\Program Files\HP\Unified Functional Testing\bin. A license can be checked-out for a max duration of 180 days, post which it will automatically be returned to the license pool. If you wish to check-in the license during 180 days, you can make use of the same utility WCommute.exe.

How to check-out and check-in a remote commuter license?

There are a few steps you need to follow to check out a remote commuter license.

Going by the example of John and Mike mentioned above, where John is at a machine which can’t interact with server whereas Mike at a machine which can interact with a server here are the steps with an illustration.

  1. John will use WRCommute.exe utility present under C:\Program Files\HP\Unified Functional Testing\bin to send his machine’s locking code to Mike.
  2. Mike will use WCommute.exe and John’s locking code to generate a remote commuter authorization which is saved to a file and is sent to John.
  3. John again uses WRCommute.exe and the file sent by Mike to install the remote commuter license on his machine.

Please make sure that WCommute.exe and WRCommute.exe used in the process above are of same version.

Illustration: Checkout Remote commuter license

How to manage concurrent license servers?

A utility known as WLMAdmin.exe can be used to add, manage or monitor concurrent licenses in a concurrent license server. This utility can be found in your UFT installation disk or a UFT dump file downloaded from HP, under the folder LicenseServer\utils.
Note: Unlike WCommute.exe and WRCommute.exe, WLAdmin.exe is not copied to your installation directory during installation.

How to restrict concurrent license usage among various groups in an organization?

Ok, this is something advanced and should be used by someone who is in-charge of managing the license server.
You may have several groups in an organization using the same concurrent license server. You want that licenses should be fairly divided amongst those groups and restrict a particular group from consuming all licenses. This can be achieved using a utility called WlsGrmgr.exe, present under the folder LicenseServer\utils. (as mentioned above)

What type of license should be used for virtual machines?

Virtualization software like Citrix, VM Ware may generate a different locking code for each of the sessions, so you can’t use seat license on such machines. You should use commuter license if you’re using virtual machines.

UFT(QTP) license cost

Last we checked, seat license were available for $8000 – $12000, for US region. There can be a lot of variance in license cost depending upon your region, organization etc so it is advisable to get in touch with your HP sales rep. If you’re aware of the cost of QTP license that is used in your org, please mention in the comments section below.

UFT(QTP) license key and license file location

UFT license keys are stored in LSERVRC file. This file can be located under –

  1. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\HP\Functional testing\License for Win XP and
  2. under %programdata%\HP\Functional testing\License\lservrc for Win Vista, Win 7 and Win 8.

LSERVRC file can be opened in a simple editor like notepad. The path to LSERVRC file is added under Windows Environment variables discussed above during installation.LSERVRC file location

You can check our step-by-step instructions to download & install QTP on your machine.

I hope this article would help you with all your questions pertaining to QTP licenses. In case we have left something, please feel free to ask/contribute in the comments section below.

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96 Comments

  1. Asemahle on Nov 25, 2017 at 15:10

    Hi,

    We would like to use UFT test tool to perform automated functional testing on Remedy 8/9 ITSM and is versatile enough to be able to perform functional testing on other products as well.

    With regards to licensing, we would consider Concurrent license of 1-5 users and would like to know the cost around.

    Thanks & regards,

    Asemahle Gulwa

    Reply
  2. Nitin Singare on Dec 6, 2016 at 18:51

    I am facing below error:-
    Cannot consume license from server. Either license available capacity is o or the license server has no licenses installed.

    Please suggest solution if came across the same problem

    Reply
    • Sab on Mar 24, 2017 at 11:24

      we faced it and it is because of server overloaded.Check for how many systems license have been purchased

      Reply
  3. Kasi on Oct 26, 2016 at 22:39

    Hi Ankur,
    I am using SAP TAO tool to record automation script. TAO Providing me KEYWORD business component. When I tried to download the keyword BPT component in UFT 12.53. I am trying to down load this BPT component from ALM – TEST PLAN module into UFT.

    Error 0:'<> did not load correctly. This project requires a Unified Functional Testing license.To obtain a license, contact your HP Sales representative.

    Could you please help what is this licence error means.
    We have concurrent licenses, there is NO issue when I opened a scripted business component from ALM- Business component module into UFT.

    Thanks
    Kasi

    Reply
  4. hemalakshmi on Oct 7, 2016 at 16:34

    Is there a separate cost for HP UFT’s Web services (API test) testing? If so, I want to know the details of it please.

    Reply
  5. Murali on Oct 7, 2016 at 12:21

    Hi friends,

    Can you guide me, How much cost of UFT Seat License & Concurrent License(for 3 resources) and How to get the UFT software from HP.

    Reply
  6. Preeti on Sep 23, 2016 at 17:42

    Hi Ankur, I need some help. I have recently bought additional UFT 11.5 licenses. I already have 5 current licenses, and the Sentinel RMS license server is installed on a production server.

    I have to update the license key provided by HP to the license server, but I can’t find clear guidelines to do it. I have checked and it has Sentinel RMS License Server installed in the Programs (from Control Panel). However , I cant find any way to go to a location where the license file is located. Can you please help me with steps to update this license file. Thanks for the help in advance.

    Reply
    • preeti bhutani on Sep 23, 2016 at 19:07

      Hi Ankur,

      I mentioned incorrect UFT version in my above post, it is actually UFT 12.01.

      Reply
      • Ankur Jain on Sep 24, 2016 at 09:35

        @Preeti: You need to run the concurrent license server installation setup again to install the key. Just follow the prompts after you click on Install a concurrent license key on the splash screen. On the last dialog box, it will prompt you to enter the license key you must have received in the form of .dat file.
        Let me know how it goes.

  7. parandhaman on Sep 12, 2016 at 12:36

    Hi

    I am getting the below error when i try to install the concurrent license server.

    “Cannot consume license from server. Either license available capacity is o or the license server has no licenses installed.”

    Can anyone help me to solve this issue

    Reply
    • Nitin Singare on Dec 6, 2016 at 18:49

      Hi,

      Did you get any update on the “Cannot consume license from server” error. As I am also facing same error

      Reply
  8. Vigor on Aug 31, 2016 at 12:08

    can we upgrade to 12.5 from 12.0 without paying anything to HPE for existing concurrent license. We have stopped paying for support as well

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Aug 31, 2016 at 15:37

      @Vigor: I have responded to your similar comment on another thread. Check.

      Reply
  9. Pushpendra on Aug 13, 2016 at 02:30

    Hi , My team team currently use UFT 12.01 and we have 15 concurrent licenses. But few users wants to use 12.52 so is it possible that I upgrade licenses to 12.52 and still other UFT 12.01 users can work with upgraded license (12.52) ?

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Aug 13, 2016 at 11:22

      @Pushpendra: UFT 12.5 onwards, for commuter license, the licensing mechanism has changed from Sentinel to AutoPass. I hope you have checked within your company that they are fine maintaining two different license servers? Anyways, this question will be best answered by your organization HPE sales rep.

      Reply
  10. Raina Kashyap on May 11, 2016 at 13:38

    Hi Ankur,

    In my team, we are upgrading UFT from 12.02 to UFT 12.52, that is Auto Pass. Can you please help how to generate locking code for Autopass, as we need that for requesting License from HP.

    TIA,
    Raina Kashyap

    Reply
  11. Naresh on Mar 2, 2016 at 10:58

    Hi Ankur ,

    can you explian me how can we intigrate UFT 12.0 and jenkins execution (when data push to environment uft shoud execute automatically. we are not using ALM and what and all the require steps ..!!

    Reply
  12. Santhosh Kumar on Feb 26, 2016 at 02:13

    Dear All,

    I have a common question regarding license usage. We have few machines in which UFT 11.53 installed and UFT 12.51 trail version installed on one machine that got expired now. So, can we use the same license server using for UFT 11.53 for UFT 12.51 Or do we need any specific license for UFT 12.51 ?

    Thanks,
    Santhosh Kumar.

    Reply
  13. UFT/QTP on Jan 23, 2016 at 19:26

    Hi all, if anyone looking for UFT/QTP Permanent License, please contact us.

    Reply
    • Biju on Jan 17, 2018 at 17:33

      Please provide me the cost of QTP

      Reply
  14. Rajesh on Dec 22, 2015 at 20:55

    Hi ,

    I have a small query here . I have a UFT licence key available which is working while working with my organaization LAN. But the same is not working with my data card. Can some one suggest any steps to resolve this issue.

    Reply
  15. qtpQuestion on Oct 7, 2015 at 19:18

    currently have QTP 11.50 with concurrent license after patching to 11.53 copy and paste stopped working. Does a concurrent license allow the usage/upgrade of the next version UFT 12 or even 12.5??

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Oct 7, 2015 at 22:11

      Licensing mechanism has changed with UFT 12.5 It has moved to AutoPass.

      Reply
  16. meer on Oct 7, 2015 at 03:28

    Hi Ankur,

    Thanks for the good information.In our company we hve concurrent licence.I am able to create GUI Test.But when I try to create a API test it is giving me error as “This operation requires a UFT licence.To obtain a licence, contact your HP sales rep” Could you please help.
    For LSHOST I set the ip address of my computer as variable name.
    Thanks in advance.

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Oct 7, 2015 at 22:12

      @meer: You would need the unified license comprising of GUI as well as API. Check with your company rep.

      Reply
  17. vinay on Sep 17, 2015 at 21:01

    Hi Ankur ,

    I did an install for UFT 12.00 on a Virtual machine . Install was successful but when I try to give the Valid License Name and establish the connection to the License Server it just gives me an exception that the license server is not found.

    Although , I also have an install on my local machine which is able to connect to the License server and work successfully.

    Would be really great if you can help me understand what is possibly going wrong with the VM install.

    VM and License server are possibly on different subnets but so is my local machine as well.

    I have a concurrent license. Please advise.

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Sep 18, 2015 at 06:14

      @Vinay: Are you using Sentinel or AutoPass? Also check Port settings.

      Reply
      • Vinay on Sep 18, 2015 at 12:26

        Hi Ankur , thanks for replying.

        It appears that we are using AutoPass as I don’t see any sentinel service running on my local machine with which UFT 12.00 works fine.

        Also , I would need your help about the port which needs to be looked at and validated.

        Thanks a lot for the help !

  18. Akhilesh on Jul 16, 2015 at 09:58

    Hi Ankur,

    I consumed 2 licenses for 90 days on VMs not connected to network, by Commuter license.
    Now my VMs are corrupted. Is there some way to release lock of licenses from License server before the time window completes?

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Jul 17, 2015 at 01:56

      @Akhilesh: You may want to try WLMADMIN utility by on the host machine or any other client machine.

      Reply
  19. Shrinivas on Jul 8, 2015 at 12:58

    Hi Ankur,

    I am looking for tentative license costing for UFT considering 1 license i.e.

    Node (Seat) License:
    Float (Concurrent) License:
    Commuter License:
    Remote Commuter License:

    Could you please help to get tentative figures?

    Thanks,
    Shrini

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Jul 8, 2015 at 13:17

      @Shrini: The cost varies by region. It was around $8k for a seat license some time back. Concurrent license costs more. Commuter and remote commuter license are just the types of concurrent license, they aren’t sold seperately.

      Reply
      • Shrinivas on Jul 8, 2015 at 13:21

        Thanks Ankur!

        That means, can i consider concurrent license cost +40% of seat license cost i.e. about 11K?

        Thanks!

      • Ankur Jain on Jul 8, 2015 at 15:47

        @Shrinivas: No, I would suggest you to get in touch with HP sales rep of your area.

  20. Baskar on May 5, 2015 at 14:46

    different types of action in QTP?

    difference between Run time object and Test object?

    Reply
    • Ahmed on Dec 17, 2015 at 21:49

      greetings,
      the run-time object is the real object of the application, for exemple, the connexion button in facebook is a reu-time object.
      the test object is the copy of this button (with properties and values) that you capture from the user actions. it is located in the object repository.

      Reply
  21. Naveed on Mar 24, 2015 at 23:35

    Hi,

    I am having the issue with QTP and UFT as well. i checked the UDP port as well which looks good port 5093 open bidirectoinal. our scenario is like client is accessing the server which is on the other side of the tunnel (VPN). we did testing as well such as client install the licence server on his collegue system(Same Subnet) and he was successfully able to get the licence but when he try to get the licence on the other side of the tunnel error comes : check connection failed. we can ping the server, tracert and file sharing all works well. any suggestion?

    Thanks

    Reply
  22. oindrila on Jan 14, 2015 at 16:47

    where can I change the environment variable of “180 days” default period of commuter license?

    Reply
  23. Kiran on Dec 19, 2014 at 06:38

    Hi Ankur,

    My Question is reg Commuter Licence:

    I have generated the commuter license for remote machine using locking code. But, by mistake i didn’t saved the commuter license key for couple of remote user.

    I am trying to generate again using same locking code, QTP/UFT license server killing(server is went down). i tried for 2 times, 2 times same issue.

    I need to generate new commuter license with new ;locking code?

    Can you please suggest me, why QTP server is going down? I need to report with HP? or any alternative?

    Regards,
    Kiran

    Reply
    • Terri on Jun 17, 2015 at 02:13

      Run WCommute, enter locking code, click option to extend license and enter 1 for number of days to extend.

      Reply
  24. Ankita on Nov 18, 2014 at 12:27

    Hi Ankur,

    I am trying to do a silent installation of UFT, I want to specify a concurrent license server while installing UFT. In the install guide I could find only LICSVR property for specifying the license server. But when I open the application it is still asking for a concurrent license server to be specified. Can you please help me in suggesting how can I specify a concurrent license server while doing the command line installation.

    Reply
  25. Payal on Oct 16, 2014 at 00:11

    Hi,
    I am using UFT 11.52 concurrent license. However, as a part of a new process, we are planning to use seat license. How do I transfer concurrent license into seat license? Do I need to uninstall concurrent license and then install seat license? What is the process of transferring the license on the same machine?
    Could you please let me know?
    Appreciate your help.
    Thanks,
    Payal.

    Reply
  26. Brian on Oct 15, 2014 at 15:51

    Hi Ankur – great source of information
    I have a licensing question for you. If you purchase a per seat license (which is tied to a machine), can this machine be used by more than one person? say in the case that it was shared, and is the answer to this documented by the vendor?

    Reply
  27. Anonymous on Sep 23, 2014 at 05:31

    I work for a large banking company I use a commuter license and the cost is $12-15K

    Reply
  28. Anonymous on Sep 23, 2014 at 05:30

    I work for a large company >12,000 employees. We use commuter licenses and the cost is $12-$15K.

    Reply
  29. Kamala on Sep 22, 2014 at 17:42

    If I purchase 10 concurrent licenses, I understand that the cost includes support for a year. Beyond one year, should I purchase 10 support licenses or with one support license, would I be able to download patches and apply for all 10 licenses.

    Reply
  30. laurent on Jul 2, 2014 at 19:59

    Hi,
    when I start UFT connected through the private network of my society, everything’s OK : UFT starts correctly. When I start UFT at home through VPN client : licence error Unable to connect to a licence server.
    Help ! Please ! I can’t work at home with UFT. The average downloading rate of my ADSL line is 3 Mb/S

    Reply
    • Greg on Sep 30, 2014 at 12:43

      Hi Laurent

      Did you remember to open UDP port 5093?

      Reply
  31. Vicki D on Jun 7, 2014 at 07:37

    Company just installed UFT Rel 11.53 with patch UFT_00044 on Citrix Server (Win 2008) using a current license; New License Mgr was installed on Win 2003 server; The first time a Citrix user accesses UFT, they get a License Error. If the user clicks to install, they can type in the License Server name, then successfully use UFT. No problem with their 2nd attempt or any other usage.

    This is unacceptable to have first time users type in the License Server Name because of the License Error when connecting to UFT for the first time.

    We have check the LSFORCEHOST system variable and it has the correct License Server name. No problem with users that install UFT on their workstations. Only for Citrix users.

    Help please.

    Reply
    • Greg on Sep 30, 2014 at 12:46

      @VickiD

      The licence connection is in the user profile (i know, its not optimal, but its done to prevent unauthorised use of QTP, ie the person should be a member of the QTP users to access it)

      Consider making the settings part of an automated installation, it makes it much easier

      Reply
  32. Vickky on May 6, 2014 at 11:37

    Hi Ankur,

    Our company have a win xp machine with QTP seat license, this machine is End of life.

    I do want to retire this to a new one, so can I simply install QTP on new machine use this old seat license and retire existing one.

    Thanks in advance

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on May 18, 2014 at 01:04

      @Vickky: Seat licenses are tied to a machine using locking code. You would need to check with HP to migrate the locking code from one machine to another.

      Reply
  33. Vera on Apr 28, 2014 at 16:52

    Hi,
    Can you please confirm that running QTP as object from batch file does not consume the licence. If yes – do you know if it works the same way in UFT?
    Thanks,
    Vera

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Apr 29, 2014 at 15:02

      @@Vera: It would only work if you have license for your machine. Why it won’t consume the license?

      Reply
  34. Nvedia on Apr 14, 2014 at 08:01

    Hello there
    I am using the QTP trial right now for my personal learning which would get over in 3 weeks. Can you please tell me what are my options to use QTP when my trial period is over? I am an individual and cannot afford $800 etc for seat license.
    Does QTP has any development license or any license for training/students?

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Apr 14, 2014 at 11:09

      @Nvedia: Either ask your company for the license keys OR ask HP to extend trial OR reinstall OS on your machine.

      Reply
      • Aamir on Oct 21, 2014 at 19:59

        please tell me any other option i can’t reinstall my os becouse some important projecs are there.

      • Aamir on Oct 21, 2014 at 20:02

        please tell me any other option i can’t reinstall my os because some important projects are there.

      • vijay on Oct 21, 2014 at 20:04

        help me to extend the qtp 11 trail version.

  35. Kelvar on Apr 8, 2014 at 17:58

    Hi Ankur,

    nice article but can you describe how to remotely checkin a commuter license? I checked out 2 licenses to machines which are on travel now but they have to be replaced elsewhere and cannot connect to the server.

    Many thanks,
    Kelvar

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Apr 9, 2014 at 18:46

      @Kelvar: I think you may first need to check-in those two machines and then only you can checkout others.

      Reply
  36. Arivu on Mar 19, 2014 at 10:34

    Hai Ankur,
    Hai sir your site is very informative,I have a doub’t in UFT11.5,while recording it’s showing any buttons name like Submit button,cancel button etc…Instead of that its showing like Click 250,65,Like width and height ,,because of that reason i can’t able to work please provide me the solutions for the above..

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  37. Radhika on Feb 13, 2014 at 17:31

    Hi Ankur,

    This is very informative in a very easy words. Actually I had some technical problem while Launching QTP, just thought if you can help me diagnose the problem and guide me how to resolve it.

    Issue: when trying to install QTP after selecting concurrent Licences and proceeding I see an error message as below

    License Error

    Unable to connect to a License Server.
    Details: –Either the License server host is not found on the network or an invalid host name specified.

    But Launching QC is successful for the below scenarios with the same network:
    *It connects sometimes without any error. Its an intermittent issue
    *It works if we connect to VPN.

    Could you please help me in understanding the issue.

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Feb 18, 2014 at 11:06

      @Radhika: Try to use LSFORCEHOST variable as discussed above.

      Reply
      • Radhika on Feb 26, 2014 at 14:24

        Thanks for your reply!

        Yes, the LSFORCEHOST is already set to the License Server name.
        As I said Iam able to launch QTP sometimes that is when the License usage is low but when License usage is high I’m unable to launch.

        Details: *Max Licenses on the Server is 50
        *I’am able to launch QTP when the licese usage is arround 5
        *when the number of License increases to arround 10 though it has not reached the limit (50) I would no longer be able to Launch QTP it shows error that
        Error: “Unable to connect to a License Server.
        Details: –Either the License server host is not found on the network or an invalid host name specified “. In this stage I can Launch QTP using VPN.

        Does the no.of max License usage is different in VPN and Local network?
        What do you think here is the issue?

      • Ankur Jain on Feb 27, 2014 at 11:25

        @Radhika: I have heard such problems the other way round ie people often find issues connecting over VPN. Please check the version of the License Server installed using the WLMAdmin tool. It is recommended to install License Server version 8.4, or a later version when one is available, which is provided with the installation pack of UFT 11.50.

  38. Arjun on Jan 17, 2014 at 21:20

    Hi Ankur,

    We have procured functional testing licenses for QTP 11. Do you know if it is free to upgrade to UFT 11.5?
    If yes, will it include Service Test license also or only Functional Testing features would be available?

    Thanks,
    Arjun

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Jan 24, 2014 at 03:38

      @Arjun: I don’t think the upgrade would be free. However I would suggest you to cross check with your account rep.

      Reply
      • Badhurudeen on Dec 10, 2014 at 20:47

        Hi Ankur,

        We have QTP 11 with Seat license. will able to upgrade UFT 11.5 with same license?

  39. Soumen Chakraborty on Jan 8, 2014 at 16:06

    Hi Ankur,
    Is there any way to get the HP contract details from the concurrent license that we are using? Will HP provide any support to our queries only on the basis of our concurrent license?

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Jan 9, 2014 at 14:42

      @Sumen: I think your HP account rep should help in this case.

      Reply
      • Soumen Chakraborty on Jan 9, 2014 at 15:08

        Actually I have no information about contract details when I took over from my ex-colleague. Now I need to contact HP but do not have the required credentials.

  40. Deepesh on Nov 29, 2013 at 18:22

    Hi Ankur, I am a IT support person and I want to know if the QTP11 machines in my company are using seat license or concurrent license. Is there a remote way to scan through all the machines in the company and identify which ones have seat vs concurrent license?

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Dec 27, 2013 at 01:33

      @Deepesh: Check the utility above to find out about a concurrent license. As long as a machine is connected to the server it will use a concurrent license. As soon as it is disconnected, it will be give back the license to the pool.

      Reply
  41. Hari on Nov 18, 2013 at 20:27

    Hi Ankur,

    I am trying to install the UFT 11.50 trial version in Windows 2008 R2 server. But I am not able to run it in the trail mode at all . Could you please let me know how we can install trial version of UFT 11.50 in server machines

    Thanks & Regards
    Hari

    Reply
    • Subhrajyoti on Dec 5, 2013 at 12:08

      Hi Hari,

      Seat licenses are not available for operating systems that have session
      capabilities, for example, Windows servers or Citrix.The seat license includes the 30-day demoperiod, during which you may use all of the available QuickTest features.Since you are using Windows 2008 which is windows server OS.. You will not get trial version for UFT.

      Reply
  42. Ravi on Sep 12, 2013 at 22:14

    Hi,

    Can some one please tell how can i crack the seat license for UFT11.5

    Thanks
    Ravi

    Reply
  43. BRAHMMAJI on Aug 13, 2013 at 13:32

    Thanks ankur..
    very useful information ankur…thanks alot.

    Reply
  44. Veeranki on Jul 17, 2013 at 11:42

    Thanks Ankur.

    Eagerly waiting for your post.

    Cheers,
    Veeranki Naveen.

    Reply
  45. Veeranki on Jul 16, 2013 at 00:33

    Ankur,

    I know below questions may sound funny but my curiosity is pushing me to post the below queries 🙂

    1.
    As per QTP help

    “The identification property set for each test object is created and maintained by QuickTest.”

    As per my understanding to create Identification property set, QTP first map the identification properties to native properties and then copies the corresponding property values into Identification property set.
    Correct me if I am wrong ?

    2.
    Also ,want to understand the below statement in detail

    “The native property set for each run-time object is created and maintained by the object creator (for example, Microsoft for Microsoft Internet Explorer objects)”

    3.
    Also would like to request if you can write a blog on “Difference between Native & Identification properties and methods in detail”.
    With some real time examples of Native methods.

    4. Can we say Identification propertie’s are the subset of Native properties.

    5.
    Abs_x, Abs_y, x , y visible etc are the Identification properties, How QTP generates these property values ?

    Regards,
    Veeranki Naveen.

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Jul 17, 2013 at 10:27

      @Veeranki: Stay tuned!

      Reply
  46. Veeranki Naveen on Jul 15, 2013 at 21:45

    Ankur,

    I know this is not a correct thread to post this query but wanted to know why “Drag & Drop” methods are defined for QTP’s WebEdit , WebButton Classes ?
    Any practicle example, If any ?

    Regards,
    Veeranki Naveen.

    Reply
  47. Viswa on Jul 15, 2013 at 11:26

    Hi Ankur,

    Very Nicely Organized

    Thanks

    Reply
  48. Babu on Jul 11, 2013 at 10:27

    Thank you ankur, But what about QTP11.0 license. I think most of the companies r using QTP11.0 still now. For move to UFT will take some time i think. Please share any body how to connect mobile for mobile automation through QTP11.0. Some of the industry senior automaters discussion about UFT may be it will failure.

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Jul 11, 2013 at 13:17

      @Babu: Even for QTP 11 and lower versions, licensing aspects remain the same as mentioned above. For mobile testing, HP has collaborated with Perfecto Mobile. Eran from Perfecto Mobile, wrote an article on Mobile testing sometime back.

      Reply
  49. Phani Krishna on Jul 10, 2013 at 21:30

    Thanks ankur. very nice article.

    Reply
  50. Farida on Jul 9, 2013 at 15:46

    Very good article! The types of licenses are well explained.

    Reply
  51. Anuradha on Jul 8, 2013 at 23:14

    very useful information ankur…thanks

    Reply
  52. Veeranki on Jul 8, 2013 at 22:12

    Ankur,

    Thank you for the above article. Your contribution is remarkable.

    Ankur it would be a great help if you can write an article on ROI
    In the Automation life cycle , first phase is Decision of Automation (Whether to Go or Not to Go for automating an appication) Which is based on ROI,
    So, How is it calculated in organizations ?
    What are the parameters considered for ROl calculations ?
    Please explain with examples if Possible.

    Cheers,
    Veeranki.

    Reply
    • Ankur Jain on Jul 9, 2013 at 10:18

      Sure Veeranki. I’ll put your suggestion in my To-Do.

      Reply
  53. Anand on Jul 8, 2013 at 21:17

    Very nice article Ankur…was very helpful and useful information…Thanks a lot…

    Reply
  54. Ashok on Jun 27, 2013 at 21:42

    Super article man… Thanx…

    Reply

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