Components fail when QTP encounters a step it cannot perform or the results of a step indicate failure. In many cases this is due to the application being tested not functioning properly. QTP then provides you with test results that assist you in understanding how to fix your application.
Sometimes a component fails because the application being tested has changed from when the component was created and the QTP component needs to be updated to reflect those changes. Your object repository may also be missing some of the objects it needs …

You can instruct QTP to ignore an existing breakpoint during a debug session by temporarily disabling the breakpoint. Then, when you run your component or function library, QTP runs the step containing the breakpoint, instead of stopping at it. When you enable the breakpoint again, QTP pauses there during the next run. This is particularly useful if your component or function library contains many steps, and you want to debug a specific part of it.
You can enable or disable breakpoints individually or all at once. For example, suppose you add …