Testcomplete 9: Extremely slow test execution

Below is my Active (I hope!) support ticket as I experience drastically slower performance in TC9.  Thank goodness I installed 9.0 on only one of my VMs and so I still use TC8.7 almost exclusively.  I had hoped TC9.1 would fix the issue but it has not.  I hope they are still working on this.



From: SmartBear QA Support [mailto:QA-Support@SmartBear.com]

Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 11:36 AM



Subject: RE: [Issue# M0101191] Snippet #1 from M0100870: Lower performance in TC9, Extended Find is used



Hello Chris,

We have found an issue in TestComplete 9 that can result

in the problem you faced: TestComplete 9 accesses the process of the browser

via the Sys.Browser method. Turns out, this method works much slower than the

Sys.Process method used in TestComplete 8. We will work on the issue.

In the meantime, please try modifying your test so that

it obtains a reference to the Internet Explorer process only once. For example,

you can use Name Mapping to map the Sys.Browser("iexplore") object

and access the browser via the mapped name. Is it an acceptable workaround for

you?

Best regards,

David