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huan_qin
11 years ago
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Can TestCompete spy objects remotely?

I have two stations. One(#1) has test complete installed. Another one (#2) has some other applications and it's windows XP based machine. What I try to do is to run TestComplete from station#1 and rem...
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    AlexKaras
    11 years ago
    Hi Huan,



    TestComplete can spy into only locally running applications.

    It can control application running remotely but only via coordinate-based mouse clicks on the VNC window (using some image search/recognition). Obviously, such tests are extremely fragile and unreliable.
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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
11 years ago
Hi Huan,



TestComplete can spy into only locally running applications.

It can control application running remotely but only via coordinate-based mouse clicks on the VNC window (using some image search/recognition). Obviously, such tests are extremely fragile and unreliable.