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Hi,
I'm fully in line with all previous posts.
Feature Requests and Kudos do not look like something a lot of people pay real attention to.
P.S. Besides TestComplete, there is LoadComplete forum here as well. :) It is much less active than TestComplete's one. Is this because LoadComplete is much less used? Or because LoadComplete is good enough for people who are using it and they just use it without the necessity to visit the forum? Mathijs (mgroen2) posted a lot of good requests there recently based on his real current experience, but most of them have one or two votes.
This is definitely the area that must be improved somehow...
It's certainly easy enough to post a request or add a kudo to one you agree with. I'm afraid what you're looking for is a way to make people care more. Another way to vote or express opinions is not going to help with that.
- tristaanogre7 years agoEsteemed Contributor
For my part, when I log in here and see that a new feature request has been given, I go take a look. If it's something that I think I could use and would be beneficial to the tool, I give it a Kudo. I'll say that there are a lot of feature requests that come through that are "nice to haves"... things that would be cool bells and whistles to apply to the tool but, if they aren't done, I can certainly live without. Or they are feature requests for which there is a legitimate way of achieving the same thing without having to wait for a modification to the tool. Sure, it would be nice if it was available "out of the box"... but I'm a bit of a pragmatist so, if I can already do it, why wait?
- mgroen27 years agoSuper Contributor
I think it's an idea to promote voting for feature requests? The voting process, how it works, etc.
A good way might be to incorporate this process in the tool (TestComplete, LoadComplete, etc), by adding a menu option?
Something like this:
- tristaanogre7 years agoEsteemed Contributor
See, here's my perspective...
As I'm sure I've mentioned numerous times, I've been using this tool in it's various iterations since 2001. I've written OOP level scripting code in DelphiScript, JavaScript, JScript, and a little bit of VBScript using the tool. I've made it jump through hoops it didn't even know existed. In the 12.40 Beta version, there's a Keyword Test Operation to send an HTTP Request and parse the returned response... I wrote DelphiScript code to do that 10 years ago.
While I see the benefit in a lot of the feature requests people put in... guess I'm a bit of an "old dog"... "Well, yeah, they could modify the tool to do that... but ya know, back when I wrote automation tests in charcoal on a cave wall, we did the same thing like this..." The features, bells, whistles, etc., are great for the people who don't have the level of experience and skill that myself and folks like AlexKaras or shankar_r have where they need the tool to do some of the stuff for them. Sure, I would have used that HTTPRequest/Response thing back when I wrote that DelphiScript code back then if it was available... but if I was able to do it 10 years ago, why couldn't it be done now without the new feature?
So... yeah, feature requests, etc... good to send feedback to SmartBear... but SmartBear has a product roadmap, goals they are hoping to achieve, they need to stay on top of the technology curve in a lot of other things (new components, new technologies, etc, to get the tool to be able to interact with)... so, with that in mind, some of the "nice to haves" that show up in Feature Requests... well, I can COMPLETELY understand if they are 5-6 years before they get implemented.
So... I really don't get "excited" when they aren't implemented right away... there's plenty of ways to achieve the same thing without modifying the tool AND, working in the software development industry, I understand the prioritization of what to implement when. I'm glad to see those things that have been implemented and I'm sure, if the merit is there, SmartBear will continue to implement user requests... but it's not worth getting my knickers in a knot about... I'm still having fun doing what I'm doing now and, really, that's all that I need. :)
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