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IanLim's avatar
IanLim
New Contributor
5 years ago

Using AQTime to profile TestComplete Test Scripts

Hi,   I have been using TestComplete for few years to create an Automation Framework and have implemented many custom script routines using javascript(now over 11K lines of script code) and some of...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    5 years ago

    Hi Ian,

     

    Really good question indeed!

    I would recommend to address this question directly to Support via either the https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=AQtime or the https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=TestComplete form and I will appreciate it if you update this thread with their reply.

     

    > many custom script routines using *javascript*

    Profiling of JavaScript is not supported by AQtime. Only VBScript and JScript can be profiled as per the documentation.

     

    I never tried profiling of test code for TestComplete, only for IE, but after going through AQtime's documentation, I think that approach should be pretty similar to the one described for IE. With the only difference that TestComplete should be specified as the host application instead of IE.

     

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
5 years ago

Hi Ian,

 

Really good question indeed!

I would recommend to address this question directly to Support via either the https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=AQtime or the https://support.smartbear.com/message/?prod=TestComplete form and I will appreciate it if you update this thread with their reply.

 

> many custom script routines using *javascript*

Profiling of JavaScript is not supported by AQtime. Only VBScript and JScript can be profiled as per the documentation.

 

I never tried profiling of test code for TestComplete, only for IE, but after going through AQtime's documentation, I think that approach should be pretty similar to the one described for IE. With the only difference that TestComplete should be specified as the host application instead of IE.

 

  • IanLim's avatar
    IanLim
    New Contributor
    5 years ago

    Alex,

     

    Thank you very much for the prompt reply. My mistake - I had assumed that Javascript support was a given seeing as jscript is effectively deprecated by Microsoft and both are very similar in syntax and structure.

     

    I am somewhat surprised that AQTime script support is limited to jscript and vbscript as both are deprecated by Microsoft - I am guessing AQTime is no longer focused on supporting script languages going forward. I had originally developed the automation framework in jscript and recently made the painful change to javascript ie. had to change all my excel com object calls to use excel ddt driver calls instead due to the performance issues of the javacript com object due to it being not native.

     

    In short, AQTime in its current state is not going help me improve the performance of my TestComplete javascript routines. If you know of any other performance profiling tools I can use, please lmk.

     

    Cheers

     

    Ian

    • AlexKaras's avatar
      AlexKaras
      Champion Level 3
      5 years ago

      Hi Ian,

       

      Yes, JScript and JavaScript names are pretty similar but corresponding languages are significantly different as to my knowledge.

      I never was interested in profiling of JavaScript code, so cannot help here. It is my guess that been asynchronous by its architecture and nature and been designed for web pages automation, JavaScript profiling is best supported by browsers. I am not sure that JavaScript is used for desktop applications creation (correct me if I am wrong) and thus I do not expect (a lot of) desktop profilers exist for it outside of browsers.