TestComplete Object Properties Referesh Mechanism
Hi Experts,
We are using the most latest version of TestComplete, No doubts its a great tool, but I see there are many improvements can be done, as we all know nothing is perfect.
I have been using this tool from last 30 days, and now I think I can comments many things to bring improvements in this tool.
While using test complete with the real business applications (Heavy Thick GUI apps), TestComplete takes long-long time refreshing rich objects properties, which is fine.
But why it has to refresh object properties every time? trust me this behaviour is very annoying, and reduces development productivity by 1/10.
Following are the 3 Major area's where improvements are required
1) Object Browser : There's no object caching for displaying in object browser, every time I click on Object Browser goes to gets refreshed.
solution is already implemented, a silly refresh button, please force users to click on the refresh button to have properties refreshed, if they really want.
if I don't to inspect object which was added earlier and still available, without refresh
2) type dot : every time I type on dot (.) next to any heavy rich object, TestComplete goes loading object properties again and goes in the Hang state for long.
Solution could be: Showing only default testcomplete properties and Methods and not the whole native properties and method shit in Autocomplete pop-up.
if user will click on the link on the popup to show Advance/Native properties it should then gets those properties again from the Cache and along with a refresh button on the pop-up
3) mouse hover any object in scripts: now this is worst behaviour of test complete, it goes numb for 5 mins and comes up with text "[object]" in tool tip, are you kidding with me?
same goes with the debug viewer. it should never show object as [object] in tool time only literals should be shown.
Please please please, someone from testcomplete (dev) team read this seriously and action on this, please take this as advance customer's feedback/request.
e.g. WPF third party GUI framework's like DevExpress, Infragistics, telerik