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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

Organizing test plan runs


Tests are useful to group in such a manner that there is a possibility to launch them not only one-by-one or all at once, but also in re-grouped batches. Such a re-grouping may be useful in case there is no necessity to go through the whole of the project suite, and when it is sufficient to test a specific functionality (for example, at the point of delivering a hot fix). The Test Items page, dealt with earlier in the Creating a test plan for regular runs recipe, allows us to create a similar structure with the help of groups.

Getting ready

Create several functions, which we will be able to add to the list of Test Items.

How to do it...

In order to group the tests, we need to perform the following steps:

  1. Open the Test Items panel by right-clicking on project name, select Edit | Test Items.

  2. Right-click on the list of Test Items and opt for the New Group option. In the result, we will have a group with the title Group1.

  3. Rename the group Group1 according to the name of the...