TestExecute Speed on XP versus W2K
We have a Delphi application against which we run nearly 1000 tests. We have been running the tests on a W2K VM as all tests take over an hour to run. Now that TestExecute 8.5 is not supported on W2...
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One of the things I discovered in using TestComplete/TestExecute, even in earlier versions, with Windows XP has to do with multi-core boxes. The automation has a tendency to split across the processor cores and, while you might think this will make things work faster, it actually has the opposite effect. What we did was we wrote some code to set the processor affinity for the TestExecute process at startup to put all of TestExecute on a single processor core.