Software Deployment

Hi All,

I just started with HP Quci test Pro 11.0 version and bit confused how to install the appliation. Please suggest the silent key and also how can we include the server name for concurrent License

 

Hi all, I'm having difficulties with the "Additional Installation Requirements" part.  There are 2 tasks left to do: "configure internet explorer settings" and "configure dcom settings".

Capturing this part results in an MSI with a bunch of registry keys.  My question is, is it safe to just deploy that afterwards to any machine?  Because some of the registry entries seem generated unique strings (see attached image).

Running QTPInstallReqs.exe using the silent switch doesn't seem to do anything.

Thanks for your feedback!

Repackage the executable and put your customisations in that.

Thanks. Yes, I understand repackaging would solve the issue.
However, to be honest - I alwasy try to avoid capturing setups....I know being a packager I shouldn't say this but the amount of junk that gets captured has always given me tough time. (May be b'coz I'm not capable of refining the capture results).
Even after using standard exclusion lists and every possible exclusion item, we can't say that our captured MSI is totally junk-free. I hope - as I gain more experience, I'll better be able to capture exact data.

I'll be working with QTP 11 soon so I will be watching this thread and will offer more notes later.

ORIGINAL: vish_zen

but the amount of junk that gets captured has always given me tough time.


You should be using a flat OS install with everything turned off and all the performance settings set to the lowest. No antivirus, firewall off, no automatic updates, no software, just the OS, basic drivers and in a workgroup. As flat and vanilla as you can make it. You may even consider not plugging it into the network. I use VM's because there are pretty much no drivers needed so you get very little noise in the package capture.

Then you need to get to know your packaging tool. I've been using AdminStudio/InstallShield and find the Repackaging Wizard using Installation Monitoring has been very good so far. With only minor tweaks I have made several packages with minimal effort.

Thanks Jeff for your suggestion, I'm using WPS for capturing.
Well, I'll be curious to know about your QTP package progress as well.

First off, I completely gave up on using their QTPSilentInstaller.bat. Too much junk in there that doesn't need to be run. Besides, HP has aknowledged a bug in QTPInstallReqs.exe in that it doesn't recognise the command line options. They claim to be fixing it in the next version which doesn't help me now.

I trimmed out what was important and took it from there. First I made and recording MST from CDdrive\QuickTest\MSI\HP_QuickTest_Professional.msi. I then used AdminStudio's Repackager to capture what QTPInstallReqs.exe does which is simply a bunch of reg keys. I am intending to run the 2 msi's in sequence and will probably have an active setup for the HKCU from QTPInstallReqs.exe.

I'm still working on this so I will update later once all the packaging is done and provide my

jmaclaurin - How did the packaging go ? Did you encounter any issues.. Just want to be prepared for anything unexpected , as I am currently workign on packaging this.

Yes, the captured MSI for QTPInstallReqs.exe needs to be sequenced after HP_QuickTest_Professional MSI. Just make sure that you disable the CA which calls QTPInstallReqs.exe after InstallFinalize in HP_QuickTest_Professional MSI.

ORIGINAL: SandeepPanat

Yes, the captured MSI for QTPInstallReqs.exe needs to be sequenced after HP_QuickTest_Professional MSI. Just make sure that you disable the CA which calls QTPInstallReqs.exe after InstallFinalize in HP_QuickTest_Professional MSI.




Pretty much exactly what I found. Still in testing, but looks promissing.