Author: Bill Echlin

When writing automated tests with TestComplete so much depends on Object Identification. If you can’t get that right then you may as well forget everything else. Get the identification of your objects right then you’re building a good solid foundation for the automation scritps you’re developing. The key feature in TestComplete that supports your ojbect identification is the Namemap. A complicated little beast. Once mastered, will make all the difference to the reliability and maintainability of your scripts. What is this Namemap though? Well you can think of it as just a list of objects (web pages, buttons, text boxes, whatever) that you need your automation scripts need to interact with. It doesn’t just cover the WHICH objects. It’s also...

We've been through the test automation framework build in Building a Test Automation Framework with TestComplete – Part 2. Now we're ready to start building out the automated tests. The following steps walk you through the creation of the test cases, building the folder structure and adding those checkpoints. And just for a final bit of entertainment we're going to look at some refactoring. Following on from the last post then… 19. Add Test Folders for all the Features 20. Add Tests to the FeatureOrderEntry Folder Add new Keyword tests (you don’t need to add test steps yet) for the scenarios you plan to test. 21. Create Your ‘EnterOrderValid’ Test In the workspace for the ‘EnterOrderValid’ test drag across all...

If you've been through the Building a Framework with TestComplete post you'll understand what we're aiming for with this TestComplete framework build. In this post we walk you through each step for this build. Please note that we're NOT listing every single detail about creating this framework. This post is designed to highlight the process and main components you’ll need to develop in order to implement a keyword framework. You will need to use your own skills, existing TestComplete knowledge and experience to fill in some of the detail.  1. Create a new project Make sure you select “Use XPath and CSS selectors for web objects” 2. Add new folders Folder to add Pages Components Tests UtilsWebOrders UtilsBrowser 3. Project...

This three part blog series (with videos) walks you through building a test automation framework using the Keyword testing functionality within TestComplete. Just tiny bit of code but pretty much everything using just keyword tests. This is about showing you how to build a structure that's easier to scale and maintain. It's about showing you how to avoid you projects turning into a plate of spaghetti. When we talk about ‘keywords’ we’re talking about the feature in TestComplete allows you to build tests with this graphical icon based, drag and drop approach to building automated tests. The approach to building automated tests that SmartBear have confusingly called ‘keyword testing’. This is not to be confused with the other more general...

This is last part in our three part series on Integrating TestComplete with Azure DevOps. We've completed the preparation steps  and we're now ready to build that first pipeline. To get this integration working we need to configure a pipeline then. And that pipeline we'll configure as we go through these steps.. 1. Select the Pipeline menu option 2. Create a New pipeline with the Yaml or Classic editor 3. Configure the following “tasks” for the pipeline Get SourcesSelect the repository and branch that holds your TestComplete code Configure Get Sources for TestComplete Azure DevOps Integration Agent JobDefine the automation job that will run on the agent and select the agent pool Configure the Azure DevOps Agent steps for TestComplete...

In the first part to this three part series we looked at what an Integrated TestComplete Azure DevOps setup  looked like. We set the context in that blog post so that we're ready to look what we need to configure and prepare to get this integration working. We take you through the following 4 preparation steps: Creating your ADO Git Repository  Binding TestComplete to ADO  Linking your tests between TestComplete and ADO  Setting up your agent machine So this first step walks you through setting up a Git repository in your Azure DevOps project and show you how to commit your TestComplete project/code to this repository. We need our TestComplete code in our Azure Git repo as we'll build our...

In this series of 3 posts we're walking you through the process of integrating TestComplete with Azure DevOps. In this post we walk you through the end-to-end process. In the 2nd post we show you how to set up, configure and prepare all the different components. Then in the 3rd post we talk you through constructing your first pipeline and integrating your TestComplete automation run into your release. The overall process looks like this: The core aspects of this setup being: Our TestComplete project is stored in an ADO Git repo. We map our TestComplete Test Items to ADO Test Cases. Pipeline is configured to execute tests on an agent Test results are fed back to an ADO test run...

Like it or not the most effective way to build automated tests is with code. Yes drag and drop, icon based, user friendly IDE's can be productive. Just that they'll never be as effective or productive as developing automated tests in code. This is why languages like Python are critical to a lot of test automation projects. So in a series of courses that will cover Python, Java Script and C# we start by taking you through the basics of Python. In a series of 14 modules You'll learn about Python …. Module 1 – Operations Module 2 – Variables Module 3 – Operators Module 4 – Lists Module 5 – Loops Module 6 – Functions Module 7 – Modules...

Create a Continuous Testing Environment with the TestComplete REST Api and Virtual Machines Stability and productivity are everything with automated testing. If you're going to be productive with TestComplete you must have a way to test and run your automated tests outside of your development machine. As your tests grow you cannot afford to waste time tying up your development machine as you run your automated tests. It’s crucial that you have separate environments where you can execute tests independently. We’re going to walk you through a simple'ish setup where you develop on one machine and run on a separate virtual machine using TestExecute. Execute a script, your tests run on a VM, results available on your development machine. What...

Introduction The Microsoft Azure DevOps Test Management component offers the possibility of a fully integrated development and test capability for QA and Development teams. It gives agile teams the capability of collaborating in one tool for all the different disciplines. Again, in this review of the test management component, we’ll be focusing on 7 of the most prominent features and assessing Azure DevOps against them. These features are: Assignment Version Control Parameterisation Libraries Results Aggregation Retesting Configurations and Releases Assignment When implementing a process or selecting a test management tool, you’ll always need to assign a test to a tester at some point. Question is do you need to assign at the step, case or cycle level. Do you need to allocate...