15 mins to describe automation through TestComplete
April 28, 2017
15 mins to describe automation through TestComplete
Score 8 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with TestComplete
TestComplete is used by different teams in my company and follows different approaches of creating frameworks. Bentley is implementing its automated testing done by TestComplete in all of its products. Currently, our team is running 4500 test cases from TestComplete. Automated tests are running nightly through Jenkins and whenever any change of code creates an error in already running test cases, it raises the red flag and we can see where the failure occurred which makes easier to see through TestComplete.
- TestComplete does speedy comparison of text files and we can see side by side comparison on text files. It also does the image comparison and we are using it extensively because we have graphical models to compare and TestComplete make it easier for us.
- We have written our code of comparing databases using VB script. TestComplete also provides the functionality of comparing databases quickly but we needed tolerance in database comparison which TestComplete do not provide.
- TestComplete can look in an operating system to see what processes are running and can access them to work on them. We can add filters in process to tell TestComplete that look only in a specific process so that TestComplete doesn't have to look into the entire memory.
- TestComplete has a good coverage of help so you can learn on the go while using and implementing automated testing through TestComplete. Right now we are using TestComplete for only desktop based applications. It is our future goal to add web and mobile applications in automated testing using it.
- TestComplete does not provide a comparison of Word and Excel files. Some of Bentley's product generate Word reports which we want to be compared through TestComplete but right now it does not have the ability to do it.
- TestComplete cannot access backstage ribbon which is implemented in Microsoft Office. So we used shortcut keys to figure out a way of doing that. If TestComplete starting accessing backstage ribbon that would help a great deal.
- TestComplete also needs improvement in performance testing of desktop based applications. I am not sure whether it provides this facility for web and mobile based application but I need performance testing functionality for desktop based applications.
- Of course TestComplete has positive impact on business objective. It reduces the regression testing effort which suits the agile and scrum based business models.