TestComplete Feature Requests

I am familiar with python,and do NOT want to learn testcomplete built-in function/method.However, I find that I can NOT invoke python native function/method by code completion in code editor.I just want it works like pycharm. For example,Step1:I define a list with python script. lst = [1,2,3,4] Step2:I input "lst." in code editor,if i am using "pycharm",it will pop up the below screenshot and it will show the native function，but NOT in testcomplete code editor ... View more

For Cucumber steps, TestComplete doesn't generate step definition with Keyword And. It only generates steps with Given, When, & Then Keywords. This causes code duplicity. Module 1: Scenario: Check and Open app Given I have app installed on my machine And I install DB on SQL Server for "IM" And I should open app with "IM" database as "default" user Module2: Scenario: Prerequisite for app Given I have app installed on my machine And I install DB on SQL Server for "CF" Then I install Application Server on my machine "CF" with "WorkflowFeature" And I should open app with "CF" database as "default" user In the above 2 steps are the same And I should open app with "IM" database as "default" user And I should open app with "CF" database as "default" user and should have only one step definition. But TestComplete generates 2 steps definitions, one with Given And other with Then. Cucumber, in general, doesn't take keywords in consideration while doing the step matching but in TestComplete it does. This is causing the problem and creating a lot of duplicate code.   We are looking for solution where TestComplete uses Cucumbers basic feature and do not consider Keywords while doing step matching and generates step definitions with all the keywords.We are looking for solution where TestComplete uses Cucumbers basic feature and do not consider Keywords while doing step matching and generates step definitions with all the keywords. ... View more

Hi All,   I would like to have a feature in SmartBear TestComplete, where we can run only the failed test items in the project suite. Explaining in detail: Assume I have a project suite with 3 projects with that suite, and each project has around 100 test items to be executed. So in total 300 test items are to be executed, when execution triggered for project suite. After the first round of execution, assume in each projects 10 test items failed randomly. Currently, what we have to do is, we need to select those failed test items manually and trigger execution again on the whole project suite. [This we have to do, when tests are failed due to some environment issues and so] It would be good, if we have an option of running only the failed test items from the last run.   Thanks, Karthik K R ... View more

I have groups in my test items section of a project. A user interface which seems consistent with what I am accustomed to seems to be selecting the group, selects the items. This does not occur when selecting a group in this area. Video provided. This would be nice. Thanks for listening! ... View more

When trawling through long logs to find out what lead to an error I often cannot replicate the fault, despite logging every step. Sometimes a screen grab is not enough because an error dialog masks the form content that produced it.   What would be useful is a screen recorder that runs throughout the test. This would normally generate a huge file, so like a dash cam black box in a car crash, it would be useful if TestComplete could store x seconds leading up to the warning/error as well as y seconds after the event to show how the robots attempt to recover from the fault was met by the software under test. ... View more

When I add a keyword to a keyord test,  default description is added. For instance, if I add a script routine to a keyword test, a description "runs a script routine" is added.  I would like to be able to TURN OFF the addition of default descriptions so that a person creating a test either adds a meaningful description or it is left blank.    Thanks ... View more

Currently, once the tests are executed in TestComplete, we can export the results and the summary into MHT format but not in Excel. Getting the results in Excel is a basic need in most projects where you have to report the results based on the number of tests run including the Passed and the Failed tests.   If not Excel, at least a CSV format should be good to start with. ... View more

Dark theme IDE like Visual Studio / Eclipse / Netbeans would be awesome.    ... View more

Testcomplete should export code completion information for use in other code text editors, such as Sublime Text 3 or Visual Studio Code. This would allow testers to write more scripts while other testers on the same team use TestComplete for its primary function: building and maintaining keyword tests and checkpoints.   Currently, tying up a very expensive instance of TestComplete does not make sense when editing code is not in the top 5 use cases of the tool itself. Additionally, SmartBear would benefit immensely from the efforts of other popular free text editors. ... View more

As someone who is automating the creation of my test environment, I would like to automate the configuration of TestComplete/TestExecute. TestComplete allows for a manual import of a settings file TestExecute does not. This is a problem when I'm attempting to spin up VMs from scratch and immediately start tests.   For both products, I would like to be able to use a settings file that I have previously exported to set my desired product settings at the command line either during or after install to finish the product configuration. ... View more

I would love a way to go back to the old versions of TestComplete where that object recognition hint stuff wasn't present.   I have never seen this be helpful; it's only caused problems for us when running tests. The objects are either gone because a window closed and TestComplete doesn't recognize that or TestComplete tries to find a control and takes 3-15 minutes to finish the hint and click the button.   I want a way to shut this feature off completely. ... View more

From its description, we believe SessionCreator could solve several of the problems we've encountered by letting us run a truly headless session, but password security is preventing us from being able to use it. The user account(s) running our tests have access to highly-regulated data and we simply cannot pass the authentication details it in the command line or store it in plain text in a file.   Please add support for encrypted passwords, re-using an existing session based on a key of some kind, or some other method so we do not have to have passwords visible in plain text. ... View more

I would like the ability to record click events without coordinates.  Coordinates can be fragile when controls change in size or when an application utilizes a zoom functionality.  Currently as a workaround we can use regex with Find & Replace but it is more difficult to make changes for keyword tests. ... View more

From aliases you can track to Mapped object...but not vise versa. It would be very usefull if right mouse on mapped object and see aliases (could be one, more or none) ... View more

There comes a time when Name mapping cannot be or is not the best way to get into an on screen object. We use Find methods, and life is grand. What would be slick as heck would be to be able to right-click on an object variable while debugging and have an option to highlight object on screen.    Take the screen shot example. If I had a breakpoint somewhere and was stepping through this code, once button is initialize, I would like to be able to right click and see a hightlight object on screen option which would do that. I don't even know if that is possible. But it would be pretty nifty.    Thanks ... View more

Hi, Thanks to the TestComplete - Jenkins plugin as w e are enjoying the Integration process. And now thinking about few ways that it could be improved in-order to be more effective. Now if you see in the Jenkins 'Console', this is what we can see - about launching the  TC  application and about the closing the TC. I would like to know the information during run time within the  J enkins Console output . Let's say the test execution takes about one hour, the information in the jenkins console would help me to know when and what's happening like atleast which test case is running at the moment...   [02:18:08] TC01: xxxx [02:25:57] TC02: yyyy [02:34:22] TC03: zzzz   Is there any possibilities that TestComplete can communicate with Jenkins during runtime to post these information?   If so, my suggestion is:- May be our existing methods like Log.event could post such details to Jenkins console. Or a can have a new Log method.   Advantage : We do not want to login to TestComplete box to know what's happening. Rather the information in the jenkins console is more than enough.    New idea raised as per the discussion - https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-General-Discussions/Printing-log-information-in-Jenkins-console/td-p/165140   Thanks ... View more

I have a ProjectSuite with multiple projects in which keyword-test-routines of one project are referenced in multiple other projects. If an original keyword-routine is renamed, there is no other way but to remove and then readd the references after which all usages of these references in actual tests have to be found and replaced with the renamed references as well - needless to say, that this is always a quite hideous task.   It would be very helpful if renaming a keyword/script would also rename all references and all places where they are used. ... View more

Personally, I hate the new feature in 12.30 "Smarter auto-formatting. When you type a bracket or a quotation mark, the Editor now automatically inserts the corresponding closing bracket or quotation mark."   Please see community post for more details: https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-General-Discussions/TestComplete-editor-turn-off-insert-pair-aka-automatically-close/m-p/141131   I would love to have an option to shut this off. ... View more

When modifing the test items page, it's nice to haveconsistency in the collapse/expansion of test items. Let's say, in your test items page, you have a folder with a set of test child items. While the project is open, that folder is expanded - showing the child items for display. However, when you close the project and reopen it, the test items folder collapses - hiding your child test items.   If you have a team working on the same project, it will be convenient that, when they open the project on the machine, they see the state of test items to which they are working with. ... View more