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Michael_Colclou
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago

Test Complete performance on Windows 8

Hi All



Is there are performance problem on Windows 8 when playing back test complete scripts?



I am using test complete 9.20 on both windows 7 and windows 8. Both machines are native machines with appproximately the same specification in terms of CPU and memory. I am running the same scripts against the same build of the software under test.

On windows 7, 1252 tests complete in 7 hours 10 minutes

On windows 8.1, 578 tests complete in 20 hours, after which a timeout occurs, so the remaining 674 are never run.

It does not seem to be one specific test or set of tests that runs slowly, they all seem to suffer the same problem. For instance, one test takes 14 seconds on the windows 7 machine and 1 minute 33 seconds on the windows 8 machine.

Is there a known issue with performance of test complete on windows 8?



thanks



Michael
  • Ryan_Moran's avatar
    Ryan_Moran
    Valued Contributor
    11 years ago
    I don't believe so. I recently upgraded our machines that I deploy scripts to and they have not had any issues like this.
  • Michael_Colclou's avatar
    Michael_Colclou
    Occasional Contributor
    11 years ago
    More on this problem, in case any one else encounters it.

    It doesnt seem to be Windows 8 specific as I also have a Windows 7 machine that displays bad performance with test complete. However the Windows 8 machine is a lot worse. I also have a Windows 7 machine that displays perfectly acceptable performance, and I don't know what the difference between them is that would cause this.

    The problem also manifests itself in using the object browser. Expanding an item at the top level or the next level down is fine, but the level after that either doensnt expand at all or takes many minutes, making the object browser unusable. I have seen some other posts that report a similar problem

    The main conclusion though is that Test Complete 10.30 seems to fix all these problems. The performance is absolutely fine when I installed my trial version