I would also like some advice on improving usability within my test scripts. Unfortunately I took an early decision to make a new project for each functional area of my application in order to make maintenance of the name mapping easier but this severely limits re-usability between projects because TestComplete does not support referencing another projects NameMapping. I have worked around this by creating a common Project that does not rely on any name mapping items but does generic actions such as launching the application. However, I would still like to improve re-usability of shared functions within the project. Specifically - if I create reusable functions within keyword tests, how do I then differentiate these from actual keyword tests that call these functions (stringing these all together into an actual test)? I guess a naming convention could help.
nebsta you could create some naming convention yourself, eg. starting each general function with a special character eg "aaa" (or something like that),
also you can consider creating a feature request to Smartbear to start supporting referencing of other projects NameMapping files....
Thanks mgroen2 I will look at renaming the tests to get a standardized naming convention.
There is already a feature request to support referencing of a NameMapping from another project:
https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Feature-Requests/Support-references-to-NameMappings-of-other-projects/idi-p/116631 but is still currently classified as a new idea so could be some time off being implemented.
