Versions of QTP

Version history of QTP

Astra Quicktest (First version)         -   May, 1998
Astra QuickTest 3.0                        -   Feb, 2000
Astra QuickTest 5.0                        -   Feb, 2001
(Astra QuickTest Professional 5.5)
QuickTest Professional 6.5              -   Sep, 2003
QuickTest Professional 8.0              -   2004
QuickTest Professional 8.2              -   early 2005
QuickTest Professional 9.0              -   April, 2006.
QuickTest Professional 9.1/9.2        -   Feb, 2007
QuickTest Professional 9.5              -   Jan, 2008
QuickTest Professional 10.0            -   Jan, 2009
QuickTest Professional 11.0            -   Sep 2010

Astra Quicktest (First version):

         The first version of QTP was named Astra QuickTest and it was released by Mercury Interactive(MI) in May 1998.

Astra QuickTest 3.0:

          Astra QuickTest 3.0 was released in Feb 2000. It needed IE4.0 or higher to run.

Astra QuickTest 5.0 (Astra QuickTest Professional 5.5):

         Astra QuickTest 5.0 was released in Feb 2001. This version was able to test multimedia elements like Real Audio/Video and Macromedia Flash etc.

         After the addition of various patches, Astra Quicktest 5.0 was renamed Astra QuickTest Professional 5.5. This version was able to test websites.

QuickTest Professional 6.5:

        QuickTest Professional 6.5 was released in Sep 2003 and lost Astra as part of its name. 

QuickTest Professional 8.0

      QuickTest Professional 8.0 was released in late 2004.

 The major new features added in this version were:

• Unicode Support
• Keyword View
• Business Process Testing
• Action/Test Parameters

QuickTest Professional 8.2:

     QuickTest Professional 8.2 was released in early 2005. The major new features added in this version were:

• Patches on top of version QTP 8.0
• Ability for Auto-Documentation
• Step Generator
• Enhanced Expert View

QuickTest Professional 9.0:

          QuickTest Professional 9.0 was released in April 2006. This was the time when Mercury started phasing out another popular product WinRunner since the company had integrated all its capabilities in QTP. The major new features added in this version were:

• Object Repository Manager
• Object Repository Merge Tool
• Multiple Object Repositories per Action or Component
• XML Object Repository Format
• Function Library Editor
• Handling Missing Actions and Resources

QuickTest Professional 9.1/9.2:

          QuickTest Professional 9.2 was released in Feb 2007. During this time HP completed its acquisition of Mercury interactive(MI) which started in late 2006. 

The major new features added in this version were:

• Mercury Screen Recorder
• Dynamic Management of Object Repositories

QuickTest Professional 9.5:

           QuickTest Professional 9.5 was released in Jan 2008. The major new features added in this version were:

• Support for tabbed browsing
• Bitmap checkpoint tolerance level through UI itself
• WebAddin Extensibility

QuickTest Professional 10.0:

          QuickTest Professional 10.0 was released in Jan 2009.  The major new features introduced in this version were:

• Centrally Manage and Share Testing Assets,Dependencies, and Versions in Quality Center 10.00
• Perform Single-User Local System Monitoring While Running Your Tests
• Improve Portability by Saving Copies of Tests Together with Their Resource Files
• Call Actions Dynamically During the Test Run
• Develop Your Own Bitmap Checkpoint Comparison Algorithm
• Centrally Manage Your Work Items and ToDo Tasks in the To Do Pane
• Improve Test Results Analysis with New Reporting Functionality
• Test Standard and Custom Delphi Objects Using the Delphi Add-in and Delphi Add-in Extensibility

QuickTest Professional 11.0:

         QuickTest Professional 11.0 was released in Sep 2010.  This is the latest version available in the market as of August 2012. The major new features added in this version  were:

• XPath and CSS based object identification
• Good Looking and Enhanced Results Viewer
• Easy Regular Expressions
• Now identify objects not only in relation to each other but in relation to neighboring objects. Visual Relation Identifier
• Load Function Libraries at Run Time
• Test Your GUI and UI-Less Application Functionality in One Test
• Record Support For FireFox is now available
• QTP 11 is capable of receiving Java or .NET log framework messages from your application which can then be embedded in the run results
• Embed/Run Javascript in web pages
• Improved test data management when integrated with Quality Center
• QTP 11 now supports Web 2.0 Toolkit Applications out-of-the-box similar to any other add-ins.