This was big news for us, but as usual, we’re keeping our skeptical hat on. We’ve done a lot in the past 2+ years to get around the high-maintenance foibles you get with QTP, and at first glance it doesn’t look like they’ve gone in the same direction. That doesn’t mean it won’t be good, it just means we won’t be able to use many of the features as a result of how we’ve built our framework.

You can check out the full preso here, but here are the bullet points:

Maintenance Run Mode
Process Guidance
All in one installation
Flow Pane
Available Keywords Pane
Resources Pane
Missing Resources Pane
Relative Path Helper
Checkpoint Management
Improved Bitmap Checkpoint
BPT
Web Extensibility
Tabbed browsing
New Technologies
New environments
We’ll let you know how these features rate after we get our hands on them.

I wonder how long it’ll be before QuickTest 10 comes out. I don’t know if I’m looking forward to it or dreading it.