Hi,
> Any thoughts on what might cause this?
https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/app-testing/web/cross-platform/generate-run-code.html might help.
Thank you both. It looks like I need a Device Cloud plugin license, even to test on my local machine I think?
It seems odd, that you would need such a plugin if you are not using crossbrowsertesting.com....
Hi,
> I need a Device Cloud plugin license, even to test on my local machine
Yes. And this is documented in the help article you've referenced in your initial message: "An active license for the TestComplete Web Module and for the Device Cloud add-on."
> It seems odd, that you would need such a plugin if you are not using crossbrowsertesting.com
Device Cloud Add-on is not something that is specific to CrossBrowserTesting site, but instead this is something that enables translation of script commands used in TestComplete test code into Selenium commands.
TestComplete itself mimics human's actions as close as possible and thus it does not support test execution using headless browser. (Just because human cannot interact with the browser that runs headless.) Selenium, on the contrary, just emulates human's actions over the GUI and thus Selenium can drive headless browsers.
So if you like to execute your TestComplete test code over the headless browser, this can be done with the help of Selenium only. And in order to translate TestComplete commands into Selenium equivalents Device Cloud add-on is required. Regardless of whether Selenium runs locally or remotely. (The article that you've referenced provides an example of how to connect to the local instance of Selenium and start headless browser.)
