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TestComplete Cookbook

By : Gennadiy Alpaev
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TestComplete Cookbook

By: Gennadiy Alpaev

Overview of this book

<p>TestComplete is an automated testing tool, designed for advanced and novice testers alike, to create, manage and run tests for any desktop, Web or rich client software. It does not depend on any development tool, or application type. Your tests will work fine with any application regardless of whether it was created in C#, C++, Delphi, Java, or any other development language. TestComplete is the most efficient tool of its kind, in regards to the price and quality of the product.</p> <p>This guide takes a refined approach towards quickly learning the capabilities of TestComplete, using relevant illustrations and practical examples. Each example is consonant with true-to-life situations, which testers would come across sooner or later, while automating tests. With the help of these examples, we will look into complex themes and learn how to test web applications in the most effective manner.</p> <p>Throughout the first chapters, we will be dealing with some fairly simple tasks that are of interest to people new to TestComplete, gradually moving towards advanced-level automation approaches, which are riveting both for novices and experienced TestComplete users.</p> <p>We will explore various methods of tests creation for study (e.g. recording, modification and manual coding with use of different approaches), learn test creation using different methods(each of them being suitable for a specific use-case), learn how to distinguish between different methods for accessing controls elements, selecting a most appropriate approach for each of the cases in view. We will also undertake distributive testing for the sake of shortening the overall time for test launches.</p> <p>This practical guide will help you to answer frequently asked questions relating to automation testing and set the tone for the correct direction of your advancements, which are instrumental to organizing automation in your project.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
TestComplete Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Assessing the number of errors in the log


TestComplete allows you to retrieve the number of errors for the current test item (with the help of the Log.ErrCount property); however, there is no way of finding out the total number of errors in all the executed tests. Such a possibility can be useful only if a certain predefined number of errors is treated as critical, upon reaching which test execution should be stopped altogether.

How to do it...

First of all, we will add two new variables on the level of Project Suite as follows:

  1. Right-click on the name of the Project Suite (in the Project Workspace toolbar, to the left) and navigate to Edit | Variables.

  2. On the Temporary Variables list, right-click on the New Item menu item.

  3. In the Name field, input the name of the ErrorsTotal variable, into the field Type select Integer, and set the Default Value field to 0.

    This variable will be a counter of the errors.

  4. Similarly, add the variable with the name of ErrorsMax. As Default Value, set the number of...