TestComplete Feature Requests

Hi all,   whenever a test suite is executed via testrunner api by default the suite and its logs are put into C:\windows\temp directory. This causes a lot of trouble because our customers usually restrict access to this particular systems directory or erase content in an automated way.   Please provide a way to change the log directory, either by API parameter or user environment variables TEMP/TMP.    Best Regards Bene ... View more

I would like to see TestExecute integrated into TestComplete so that a user can control the TestExecute instance to run nominated test cases directly from the TestComplete Project. It would be nice to be able to nominate where test cases will be run i.e. whether to run on the current machine under TestComplete or run on a nominated PC (on the network) using the TestExecute application and license attached to the remote PC. Ideally the user would be able to nominate at an individual test case level where to execute the test with the TestComplete PC being the default option. However, even the ability to nominate entire projects to be tested under TestExecute on a remote PC from the Project Suite Test Items list would be beneficial. The expectation being that the results are captured under a consolidated Project Suite log file for analysis.   This is fairly high level but happy to discuss further. ... View more

The current version of Chromium Embedded Browser supported by TestComplete is 88, but we need to develop automation for applications having version 102 and above, hence request to support the version 102 and above for achieving greater automation coverage using TestComplete. ... View more

Hi guys,   I'm coming from Ranorex world and one of the things I really miss in TC is a method to wait for available license. Our (Ranorex) tests are implemented for many projects and they are started asynchronously from Azure Devops. Because of limited number of licenses, "wait for available license" is crucial for us. Without it, some tests would most probably fail, because of unavailable license. I was quite surprised to find there is no such method in TestComplete.   In Ranorex, we have something called WaitForValidLicense(timeout, checkInterval), which simply pauses the execution of test, until the free license is not found (based of defined timeout and check interval). Am I alone who needs something like this in TC?   PS: I found an old request from 2016, but it seems it faded away over the years? https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Feature-Requests/Query-License-server-for-license-availability/idi-p/119698 ... View more

Currently, there is no option to wait for a valid license (either SLM or key-based) when utilizing the Jenkins TestComplete support plug-in.  Without this feature, parallel tests can fail if there is no license available during the time of the test.  It would be nice is there was a switch to wait for a valid license prior to executing the TestComplete/TestExecute test.   There are workarounds that help to some extent; however, they are not complete and do have issues.  For SLM licenses, utilizing the Lockable Resources plugin helps, but this only works for resources that are included under the scope of Jenkins and those Jenkins tests accessing the locks.  Furthermore, tests can still fail due to a slow release of the license. ... View more

Currently there it is just logged with what exe & version & parameters passed. From past experience it would be good to have following details logged too: Configured session details - Run interactive user session flag - Use active session flag - Session screen resolution (sample 2560x1440) The real facts from the Session Desktop during test execution - Is it an interactive user session? - Is an already active session used or did the test runner created a new one? - Session screen resolution (sample 1679x551 which does not match the requested one see above) ... View more

Hello, I've ticked the "Activate after test run" into the Engines > Log options. In my code editor I've opened two scripts A and B. I'm working on my A script. After executing my project, the new log tab opens next right to my A tab (which is ok) But when I close the log tab, it activates the next right tab (which is my B script) and not my previous active script (which should be my previous left A script). I've to perpetually click on the A tab to go back to my current work after each execution. The behavior is the same whith every opened/closed tab : opening = next right, closing = activates next right tab (and not previous left one) Thanks in advance ! ... View more

Issue: Having the native ability to encrypt, decrypt and encode in multiple different formats is becoming more and more crucial to working on modern devops platforms. Often times we need to be able to handle encrypted data, be able to decrypt it when necessary, and communicate back encrypted information. Especially with AWS.  Requested Solution: Provide native support to encryption, decryption, and encoding similar to Crypto-JS. ... View more

Hello Testcomplete Team,   Our Testcomplete tests are created with ultrawide monitors 3440x1440 and should be testet with that resolution. Otherwise they will fail. The Jenkins TestComplete Plugin Session screen resolution has only the predetermined dropdownmenu options and dont allow free text. When using pipeline with sessionScreenResolution: '3440x1440 we get the message: [TestComplete] [ERROR] The "3440x1440" is not a valid value for "sessionScreenResolution" parameter.   We need utrawide support for our tests to run! At the moment our TestExecute license is not in use because of this problem.   regards Niclas     ... View more

Hi,   The request is to have the 'Execution Plan Editor' to work with Automation tests that has 'tags' on them.   Currently if the "Run @tag" option is selected, the tests will run in no apparent order, ie. the 'Execution Plan Editor' feature does not work along with it.   Hope that the feature request can have some priority, since it would definitely help a lot of Projects that utilize the Automation tests to run on CI/CD Pipeline.   Thank you in advance. ... View more

What's New section for just released TC 14.74 contains a notification that support for the Network Suite functionality is going to be discontinued. Network Suite contains a great functionality of Synchronization Point that is essential for concurrent testing of any application (desktop/mobile/web). This functionality is going to be removed as it is a part of the Network Suite. I think that without Synchronization Point it will be impossible to do concurrent testing with TestComplete and thus would like to ask to preserve it in this or that form. ... View more

TestComplete has its own HomePage... Contains links to recents Projects etc..   Please ADD a way of allowing each Project Suite to have a Home Page /  'read me' page? We need to have a page that links Exectution Prerequsits, Project Jiras, Confluence pages, Test Info etc..   At the moment I've had to include a Manual Testing Project (Defaulted) and added Test Case with this info...  ... View more

if you have a large list of networksuite jobs its very annoying to scroll trough the whole list of tests manually - it would be nice to have a selection window like it exists for the project suite test items. ... View more

When creating a Test Item in the Masterproject and selecting a Job for the Test Item, no sub maps are shown, while there are sub maps in the Job structure.   With many Jobs and Tasks, it won't be easy to find the right Job when selecting one for your Test Item in the Masterproject. ... View more

It would be great to add the PCoIP protocol as a connection possibility to the Network Suite/Distributed Testing. At the moment only connection options with RDP are available.   Benefits of which i could think of: - Support of certain ressource analysis/monitoring tools - More "realistic" setup, as the VM would be connected over a view broker/server (though probably there won't be any large difference in performance for example)   The only way to make this work until now (that I know of) is to open a session with a zero client and set the connection type in the Network Suite to "Manual", but then obviously all VM's need to run from a physical client. ... View more

when you change the name of a keywordtest it asks you if it should change the name in other keywordtests too. this works so far BUT the changes aren´t apply for used keywordtests in your networksuite jobs list.  ... View more

It would be nice where to be able to selectively copy project files down to the slave pc. For example, instead of copying down the whole project I would be able copy down a directory or file.   This would save a lot of time being that it sometimes takes close to 5 minutes to copy down project to slave.     ... View more

  Visual Studio enterprise allows us to create Load Tests to performance test our application. This achieved by creating a series of Web Performance Test scripts and then creating a Load Test setup to distribute the scripts and user load in a controlled manner. (Fig 1)   Fig 1. Visual Studio Web Performance Test scripts in Load Test setup     Currently Test Completes support integration with Visual Studio where Test complete scripts can be run via a Visual Studio controller and Test Agent config. But this is limited to only running Test complete tests one by one (Like a regression test suite). Unfortunately a Test Complete script which is in a Visual Studio project cannot be run via the Visual Studio Load Test setup as it does not recognise Test Complete scripts. You get the below error when tying to add the test to a load test config (Fig 2)       Fig 2. Error when adding an existing Test Complete script to a Load Test Setup     The reason why Test Complete comes in handy for load tests is because some applications depend on processing in the client end before displaying the results in the GUI (something like a thick client). The time taken for this processing would not be captured via middle tier simulation supported by Visual Studio. Business critical systems which require transaction performance monitored release by release will benefit from the ability to include Test complete scripts in a Visual Studio Load Test as it will allow us to create background "Load" via Visual Studio scripts and monitor real life End to end transaction performance under load via a series of Test complete scripts which run as part of the load test.  ... View more

would be nice to have an option for windows shutdown after completed running tests (local/networksuite). ... View more