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pkimmel's avatar
pkimmel
Occasional Contributor
8 years ago

Can Testcomplete do distributed testing if an application is installed at different locations?

Can Testcomplete do distributed testing if an application is installed at different locations?  On one PC the application is installed in Program Files, in the other it is installed in Program Files ...
  • m_essaid's avatar
    m_essaid
    8 years ago

    hi pkimmel,

     

    I assume the exe you're trying to execute is in several places but has the same name.

    you have to distinguish the way you launch the exe and the way you work with one of its instances in memory.

    thus, you could launch several instances of an object and you could use for this the "TestedApps" items.

    for example, I added the testedapp "cmd" with a parameter :

     

    TestedApps.Clear;
    TestedApps.Add('\\mylocation\myapp.exe', '/my parameter', 1, true, '');
    TestedApps.myapp.Run;

     

    as you see, you could run a cmd.exe from any location. so you could by the code, with some switching parameters, use the same script to launch one exe or another.

     

    and... when the instance will be in memory, the aliases or the objects names in memory will be obviously the same...

  • m_essaid's avatar
    m_essaid
    8 years ago

    and if the name is not exactly the same (for example myexev1.exe and myexev2.exe) you could use conditionnal mapping with both processes names and an "OR" operator.

Ravik's avatar
Ravik
Super Contributor
8 years ago

Hi,

 

here you must be getting compatibility issue, you can not run your distributed test on different configuration. (Configuration must be same on all machine - like  OS 64, same browser version, even computer theme should be same.)

 

this may help you :)

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    8 years ago
    Ravik wrote:

    Hi,

     

    here you must be getting compatibility issue, you can not run your distributed test on different configuration. (Configuration must be same on all machine - like  OS 64, same browser version, even computer theme should be same.)

     

    this may help you :)

    Well.... not ENTIRELY true... if you write your automation code well enough, you can account for differences in configuration.  For example, in this case, we're dealing with bit architecture of the environments.  You can write code to detect what bit version you are running (Sys.OSInfo.Windows64bit is a boolean... if true, you're on a 64 bit machine) and then detect your application location accordingly.

    It's been a while since I've done distributed testing but, just refreshing my information from the help file, the verification of a task doesn't really check whether the application under test can be run, it simply checks to see if the right conditions are set up in order to run the task, not whether or not the test itself can be run successfully.  So, as long as all the conditions are met (see https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/advanced/distributed/processing/verifying.html) the task can be verified.

     

    So... what it sounds like is not a problem with your application being tested, but with your setup, configuration, and environment for your distributed test.  Check through this list of possible problems and see if there's something going wrong here.

    https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/advanced/distributed/messages/verification-failed/index.html

     

     

    • Ravik's avatar
      Ravik
      Super Contributor
      8 years ago

      Yes I am agree with you.

       

       

      (You can write code to detect what bit version you are running (Sys.OSInfo.Windows64bit is a boolean... if true, you're on a 64 bit machine) and then detect your application location accordingly)

       

      Actually I had few incidents where my distribute test was fail.

       

      1- Master computer and Salve computer (OS Theme) was not same hence getting issue.

      2- In IE 10 browser few text boxes are TextBox1, TextBox2 etc. but in IE 11 same textboxes become emailbox, passwordbox (like that)

      3- same like - Excel and OpenOffice.

       

      In this case we need to maintain separate NameMapping/Code to perform distribute test.