11 January 2013

MD5 checksum - Verify Integrity of any software downloads

Now a days we will download the various softwares from different websites,but some of the downloads will corrupted . So we unable to identify whether we downloaded right software or not.

To verify the integrity of  software downloads we will use MD5 Checksum tool .

Here is one example to check the integrity of  HP UFT  11.5
software download by  MD5 Checksum tool .

Here is  MD5 Checksum method  on how to verify the integrity of your downloaded UFT  11.5 ISO(or a zip) file -

Step 1:Download MD5 Checksum from this link MD5 Checksum  . Its freeware

Step 2: Browse to the location where you have stored the downloaded UFT ISO file.

Step 3: Enter the MD5 Checksum for the version of QTP/UFT you wish to check. List is given below. 

Here is a list of MD5 Checksum for various versions of QTP and the corresponding downloaded file names.

  • UFT 11.5 : 32F56BD3F60CC4FAD15F403351C3B15C  (File name Software_QTP_11.0_English_T6510-15080.iso)

  • QTP 11.00 : 4AED13FF8EB6E7E0B4BF209C814905AF (File name is Software_QTP_11.0_English_T6510_15066.iso)

  • QTP 10.00 : BA1F404F7E2B860744D55964E703816E  (File name is T6510-15063.zip)

(Couldn’t find the MD5Checksum for UFT 11.5,but for UFT 11.5 Software_QTP_11.0_English_T6510-15080.iso generated 32F56BD3F60CC4FAD15F403351C3B15C )