Tesing on Virtual Machines
Hi, We have some images (vmc files) created using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. And we need to open these files from Test complete and install our application in that image and test on it. We ha...
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Hi
Mohanakshi,
> How do we open vmc files in Testcomplete?
If I got you right, you are going to install TestComplete on the machine where virtual machines host (VPC) is installed, then start virtual machine using TestComplete and then test software installed on the virtual machine using TestComplete installed on the physical machine. Is that correct?
If my understanding is correct, then this will not work. The reason is that virtual machine does not expose the structure of the applications running inside it to external environment and the only thing accessible to external TestComplete will be the virtual machine window with the image inside. That means that the only possible way of testing in this case is coordinate-based clicks on the image and image comparison to verify the result.
In order to execute tests, TestComplete must be installed on the virtual machine along with the tested application, like you do on the physical machine.
Did this make things more clear?
Mohanakshi,
> How do we open vmc files in Testcomplete?
If I got you right, you are going to install TestComplete on the machine where virtual machines host (VPC) is installed, then start virtual machine using TestComplete and then test software installed on the virtual machine using TestComplete installed on the physical machine. Is that correct?
If my understanding is correct, then this will not work. The reason is that virtual machine does not expose the structure of the applications running inside it to external environment and the only thing accessible to external TestComplete will be the virtual machine window with the image inside. That means that the only possible way of testing in this case is coordinate-based clicks on the image and image comparison to verify the result.
In order to execute tests, TestComplete must be installed on the virtual machine along with the tested application, like you do on the physical machine.
Did this make things more clear?
