Anti Ragging Help line in India.

New Delhi: Students can call up a toll-free phone number, 1800-180-5522, to get help against ragging in any educational institute, the government announced on Saturday. The Human Resource Development announced the helpline would function round the clock and students may also send e-mails to helpline@antiragging.net for support from the authorities and the police.

“The helpline will operate round-the-clock and function as a watchdog. Once a student gives a call and registers a complaint, the process of giving him assistance will start within 15 minutes,” said HRD Minister Kapil Sibal after launching the helpline in New Delhi.

Agents at a call centre will a student’s complaint on the helpline and assign a number to track what help was given.
“(Educational) institutions will have their own anti-ragging committees. Once the information about an incident of ragging is received, it will be simultaneously relayed to the head of the institution, warden or officer of the hostel, district authorities including the Superintendent of Police for action,” Sibal said.

The Education Consultancy India Ltd (Decal) and BSNL will operate the helpline on behalf of University Grants Commission (UGC).
The UGC will create a database compiling information provided by students in their affidavits during admission. The information will be stored in an IT-enabled web portal.

[Source : IBNLIVE.com Dt: Saturday June 20, 2009]

How to determine if a test is executed from Quality center test lab

Hmmm. I’m back after a long time.  Okay.. lets get started.. How do we know if the test is being executed from a testset in testlab module of HP Quality center ?.. During development of the test script, we have to execute the code to see if the testscript is performing the test the way we wanted it to. We execute them directly from QTP IDE, even though we have connected to QC from QTP IDE. Let’s say one of your function does something that is dependent on the testscript name. Usually we use qcutil.CurrentTest.Name to determine the testscript name. But if we are not connected to QC, then this call will fail. In that situation, if we want to know if the test is executed from QC or from local system, we can use this function. Here’s the function. Enjoy.. In another post, I’ll provide the code for determining the testscript name irespective of whether QTP is connected to QC or not.

Earth Hour: Save a watt, and may be the Earth

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10206051-54.html

Earth Hour is a sort of open-source movement against global warming. On Saturday, March 28, at 8:30 p.m. in each time zone, millions of people in thousands of cities are expected to turn off the lights for one hour to raise people’s consciousness about the link between global warming and energy use.

Started in Australia two years ago, the event is mushrooming thanks in part to the Internet and social media.

One day before the start of the event in Asia, “Earth Hour” is the top search item on Twitter. A 30-second clip about Earth Hour on You Tube has gotten almost 59,000 views. Facebook groups count hundreds of thousands of members.

The goal for this year is to get 1 billion people to turn their lights off for an hour. In 2007, 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for an hour and in 2008, it went to 50 million.

But it’s not just individuals: dozens of cities and 829 world landmarks, including the Eiffel Tower and the Great Pyramids of Giza, will be dark for one hour as well.

The whole point of Earth Hour is to cast a vote and make a visible statement by turning off the lights for an hour. But it’s worth pointing out that that a few watts will be saved along the way and that people waste a lot of energy in their daily lives.

This week, a published study calculated that $2.8 billion is wasted from office PCs that aren’t shut off properly. Perhaps people who participate in Earth Hour could unplug their home electronics as well.

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer for CNET’s Green Tech blog. He started at CNET News in 2002, covering IT and Web development. Before that, he was executive editor at IT publication InfoWorld. E-mail Martin.

How do we send email from QTP ?

We can send an email from a QTP testscript by using the below function. It uses CDO.Message object to perform that action. We use the SMTP Server to deliver the email message to the concerned email ID. Please update the values as per your environment. This function sends a email attachment to specified email address.

How to reboot a Windows System using WMI ?

If you know the administrator password of a system that you are authorized to use, you can use this function to reboot it for some automation needs. please do not try this on systems that you are not authorized to use. I have shown only the function definition here. You can use this in a QTP function library.

How to map a network drive using vbscript ?

Sometime back I posted a code to disconnect a network drive using vbscript. Now here is the code to map a local drive to a network path. This again uses WScript.Network object to map the drive. We use the filesystem object to determine if the drive is already mapped. if yes, then disconnect it first and then map it to specified path. There are two functions. One will parse the arguments to make sure right number of parameters are passed to the script. Enjoy.

How do we use QC as Shared repository… ?

There was comment posted in this blog asking if we could use QC as a shared repository to store file and update it directly, without downloading to local desktop. I’m afraid that it is not possible to do without downloading the file to local desktop. But We certainly can use QC as a shared repository to store files and have it accessible to many tests. There are cases when multiple QTP tests may have a need to access the same file which is stored in the test’s project repository in QC. When we attach the file to a test, other tests will have to access this attachment through this test. Alternatively, a copy of the same file could be attached to each and every test. That would be a maintenance nightmare. So what would be the solution ? Read on…

How to disconnect a network drive using vbscript

Below is a script to disconnect a network drive using vbscript. We employ the services of WScript.Network object to do the same Enjoy!. There are two functions below. One is the actual disconnect drive and the other one is to parse the command line arguments. We want to make sure the drive letter that has to be disconnected, is specified as an input parameter to the script.

Executing a command on a remote windows system using WMI

Usually we use psexec tool from sysinternals to execute any program on a remote system. There is another way to execute a command on a remote windows system via WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation). This function would be beneficial to QTP automators because its a vbscript function and can be used in their function libraries (after some modifications). All you have to do is call this function with the target system name, username, password and the command to execute. The output would be the process if of the process that was initated on the target system. Have fun…

 

Download all the attachments from a specific folder in QC

There was a recent request from Salman asking how to download the folder contents from QC. I’m assuming he meant to download all the attachments from a specific folder in QC. I tweaked my earlier function  to download all the files instead of specific file. Here is the function.. Enjoy.