Hi,I'm developing a framework around an application to be able to do tests more easily and reusable across the whole project.I'm finding a lot of trouble with the TestComplete IDE usability.The autocomplete window won't work for custom Javascript objects/classes, there are no typical helping features like Refactor, Find Usage, etc.Is there anyone working with advanced scripts and TestComplete IDE? Are you suffering the same problems?Is there any IDE alternative to develop the scripts?From TestComplete side, is there any plan to improve the code editor? The features oeffered by TestComplete are really awesome, but the editor makes things really harder...Thanks!

In my company we use sublime, notepad++ and visual studio (VS being the best of course :) ), it depends on the taste of the person writing the test.We edit the files outside TC and only use TC to organize and run tests or to do something easier to do with TC.We have a framework of functions that alows us to build tests quite fast, reusing functions based either on functionality of our app or on different "pages" of the app.

If you are able to do it with js files just write a bat file to change the extension of all your files when you need to run your tests....

I don't use JavaScript. My stuff is all VBScript (QTPro background).However, I do make extensive use of script extensions for most of our framework functionality. Once you get them working, I find they're a really neat way to integrate a lot of the framework functionality directly into the IDE, rather than having a framework "project" as we used to when I used QTPro.Definitely a feature worth looking into if you haven't already.

Hi Jose,Thanks for your feedback. It's nice to feel I'm not the only one bugged by TC code editor...I would be interested in some details of your setup if that's possible..I'm interested in some aspects like, how do you handle the changes in scripts? Do you develop them in, say, Visual Studio and then manually copy-paste them back into TC?If so, have you tried to modify directly the .sj files so the changes are automatically reflected in TC?Have you faced any issue with the fact that TC .sj files are encoded in UTF-16?I would like to hear more about that framework but I guess there's no much you are allowed to tell me about that, is there?Thanks for your help!

Q:-It's nice to feel I'm not the only one bugged by TC code editor...A:- There is already a thread on this forum asking Smartbear to improve the editor, they say they are working on it.Q:-I would be interested in some details of your setup if that's possible..A:-Ask specific questions if you like, I'll try to explain how I do it.Q:-I'm interested in some aspects like, how do you handle the changes in scripts? Do you develop them in, say, Visual Studio and then manually copy-paste them back into TC?A:-We edit the sj files directly in visual studioQ:-If so, have you tried to modify directly the .sj files so the changes are automatically reflected in TC?A:-We had some trouble with imported files in TC, sometimes they do not update automatically, but if you have TC open and change a file outside of it, when you save it, TC displays a warning asking you if you want to reload the file or notQ:-Have you faced any issue with the fact that TC .sj files are encoded in UTF-16?A:-Some of my tests have portuguese characters (comments, text to look for, etc..) so we need to be very carefull, notepad++ was the one I used to solve this problem (a lot of encoding options), sublime is a nightmare regarding that, Visual Studio I think its OK with that.Q:-I would like to hear more about that framework but I guess there's no much you are allowed to tell me about that, is there?A:-I have a gist on github with some of my helper functions, you can check it here. Mainly what I do is, when I write a function that I think I'll be using a lot of times or that might be useful to my colleagues, I put it into the helper file and commit it so everyone has access to it. We use yuidoc to document our code so that it is easy for us to look for something.Ask away, I'll help you if I can.

Tips for developing "advanced" framework and tests with Javascript

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sergi
Contributor
12 years ago
Hi Phil,

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into Script Extensions to see if they can suit our project.

Jose I'll check Sublime, from which I hadn't heard before.

The most needed feature in my case is the intellisense working properly.

I actually have this (also from other units) in Eclipse as long as the files are .js but not for .sj!

I have actually just lost a bit of faith if I have to wait for SmartBear to improve the editor.. Now I need what I've seen Eclipse can provide and, honestly, TC is way behind.. :(
sergi
Contributor
12 years ago
Thanks for the suggestion Jose.

Though it's more tricky than I would have wanted, it is a possible workaround..
jose_pita
Super Contributor
12 years ago
Have you tried to look for some javascript plugin for eclipse that includes sj files?
sergi
Contributor
12 years ago
Hi Jose,

I have been able to configure Eclipse in a way that opens .sj files with the Javascript editor and so on, but the problem is that JSDT (Javascript Development Tools) plugin does not look for references in the other .sj files, only .js.

I guess then it's a limitation in JSDT.

Do you think there could be a plugin to fix this?
jose_pita
Super Contributor
12 years ago
I've googled it a little but everyone talks about JSDT...sorry.
sergi
Contributor
12 years ago
Thanks for your help Jose.

I'll explore the Eclipse + renaming way.

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