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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

Setting up Network Suite and understanding distributed testing


Distributed testing is applied against impossibilities to launch and to run tests on the same computer. For example, if the total working time of the scripts is up sky-high or it is necessary to test simultaneously via different configurations, the distributed testing is necessary.

In this recipe, we will consider an example of making the necessary customizations for the distributed testing.

How to do it...

To set the stage for distributed testing, it will take two computers: the local one (hereafter, the Master computer) and the remote one (later referred to as Slave):

  1. Install TestComplete or TestExecute on the Slave computer. The versions of the applications on the Master and Slave computers should be the same.

  2. Add the Network Suite element to the main project of the current Project Suite (right-click on the name of the project and select Add | New Item). The main project is highlighted in bold font in the Project Explorer tab.

  3. Add...