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chrismag's avatar
chrismag
New Contributor
10 years ago

Concurrent tests in TestComplete Desktop

Hi, though I have seen this question asked and answered, I am not sure if it is possible on the desktop version of TestComplete. I basically want to create a test and then re-run it multiple times...
  • Colin_McCrae's avatar
    Colin_McCrae
    10 years ago

    Concurrently?

     

    You mean threaded. You want the same test running in multiple threads simultaneously?

     

    In which case, no. Sounds like you're trying to do some sort of load testting? TestComplete has no concept of concurrency.

     

    So unless you meant consecutively, then I suspect you're out of luck. Putting things in a very fast loop to write to a DB will get you lots of consecutive entries, but not concurrent ones.

     

    I do something similar to load test using real browsers, but I don't use TestComplete for it.

NisHera's avatar
NisHera
Valued Contributor

Yes you can do that ..actually possibilities are endless.
with given info I assume you have included loging part in the loop.
if my assumption is correct, the object it cannot find is in loging or starting of application.

when you do someting for a object (window) it should be exist and accesible by TC.

probably the window you are dealing with is blocking starting /logging of application.
So either designe loging part out of loop or closing the application also in the loop.

 

chrismag's avatar
chrismag
New Contributor
10 years ago
Thank you.

I have designed a test where you can achieve concurrent hits to the database from the UI.

However I assume from your last comment that having multiple loggings (or processes) at the same time isn't achievable. As the object is blocked in some way?

Thanks
  • Colin_McCrae's avatar
    Colin_McCrae
    Community Hero
    10 years ago

    Concurrently?

     

    You mean threaded. You want the same test running in multiple threads simultaneously?

     

    In which case, no. Sounds like you're trying to do some sort of load testting? TestComplete has no concept of concurrency.

     

    So unless you meant consecutively, then I suspect you're out of luck. Putting things in a very fast loop to write to a DB will get you lots of consecutive entries, but not concurrent ones.

     

    I do something similar to load test using real browsers, but I don't use TestComplete for it.

    • chrismag's avatar
      chrismag
      New Contributor
      10 years ago

      Hi Colin,

      I agree, TestComplete is an automated testing tool and not a stress/load tool after all. Thanks for clearing that up.

      Do you know if Smartbear have a product that can load stress desktop software? I know they have a loadtesting product for the web, however, the application I am testing with is strictly .NET winforms.  

      Thanks

      Chris

      • Colin_McCrae's avatar
        Colin_McCrae
        Community Hero
        10 years ago

        So I'm guessing your .NET application will be installed on multiple sites so you're trying to load test the server they all connect to?

         

        I suspect I'd be looking to take the GUI out of the equation here and simply spoof traffic from multiple sites with something like jMeter.

         

        I use a Python/Selenium/Cloud VM combination to run multiple browsers concurrently for real browser load tests but this solution wouldn't work for a desktop application. Python would be able to run multiple threads (it does support threading but not sure about within TestComplete?) so, theoretically, you could have multiple threads all trying to hit a single instance of a desktop application, but I doubt that would work in practice.

         

        Back to square one. Simulate traffic from multiple instances, rather than trying to actually drive multiple actual instances ...