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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

Creating folders in the log


In some cases, it is useful to conceal some of the messages in the log in such a way that they are not seen all the time, rather than have them be easily accessible. For example, in case of looping through the lines of the table to locate the needed one, we could place each indexed line into the log; however, they could be rather a lot in number, making it unnecessary to view them on the top-level all the time.

To resolve this issue, TestComplete extends a possibility to create special folders in the log, where the messages could be successfully placed.

How to do it...

The following steps should be performed to create folders in the log:

  1. For creation of the new folder in the log, the method of Log.CreateFolder is to be used, the folder name expected to be passed as a parameter:

    var folder = Log.CreateFolder("1st folder");
  2. Now, for the sake of appropriating all the messages into the folder, it is necessary to enable the same with the help of the method of Log.PushLogFolder...