Can you get performance testing out of Test complete 9?

Hi Aneez,



The answer depends on the requirements of what should be tested and what is needed to be measured.

Hi Alex,



Perofrmance testing I want TC to do is to



a) Time it takes to load forms e.g. logging in to the application and double clicking on a project to open a risk summary can take far too long (is there a way I can measure this).



b). Going from Risk Summary to Correspondence in the application (time it takes).



c). Uploading multiple photographs. 



d). Time it takes to load users / roles in Security.



I want to be able to measure times and is there a way that I can use TC to do this and to also find any bottlenecks in the performance runs?





With Kind Regards,

A.  

Hi Aneez,



Yes, this is possible with the use of the HISUtils.StopWatch object (http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/27989/).

The code is like this:

StopWatchObj :=
HISUtils.StopWatch;

StopWatchObj.Start;

// Open form here and wait until it is opened

StopWatchObj.Stop;

Log.Message(AQString.Format('Time to open form %s is %s', strFormName, StopWatchObj.ToString), StopWatchObj.ToString);



Note, that using above approach you will measure time it takes to open this or that form from the end-user point of view.

For the exact measurements of time spent in different code functions you should use profiling tool (like AQtime - http://smartbear.com/products/qa-tools/application-performance-profiling).

Hi Alexie,



Thanks for that answer.



You gave me the code (below)



Do I need to input this into Test Complete some how as I couldn't find any simple way to use Stop Watch in TC.



I also found another answer that pointed me to profiling and AQTime but I wansn't sure what the intended purpose in those were? Are you abel to explain in lamen's / simple terms what the end outcome of this integration with TC should do for me?



The code is like this:



StopWatchObj := HISUtils.StopWatch;



StopWatchObj.Start;



// Open form here and wait until it is opened



StopWatchObj.Stop;



Log.Message(AQString.Format('Time to open form %s is %s', strFormName,

StopWatchObj.ToString), StopWatchObj.ToString);

Hi Aneez,



Yes, the provided code is for TestComplete and in order to use it you must install HISUtils extension (File | Install Extension...) that is provided with TestComplete.



The difference between measurements done with TestComplete and AQTime profiler is that with TestComplete only you will be able to say: "Well, it takes 15 seconds to open form A. Obviously, this is too much, but I have no idea why it takes that long. Maybe developers can do something to speed things up".

With AQTime your speech might be like this: "I measured time it takes form A to open and it appeared to be 15 seconds. Then I profiled it with AQTime and it showed that function A requires 6 seconds, function B requires 4 seconds and function C requires 2 seconds. All other functions executed while opening form A consume 3 seconds in total and worth no attention now. Maybe developers can refactor functions A, B and C so that they consume not more than 5 seconds in total? This will give us the total time to open form A equal to 8 seconds which satisfies our requirements".



I.e. with TestComplete you can measure how long does it take to do some UI-related action, but can say nothing about internals of the action.

With profiler you can measure how much time is spent in this or that function/line of code.