TestComplete Feature Requests

Edit:  Added a specific Use Case for clarity   Like most users I use parameters for my KWTs.  Some parameters have a limited option pool e.g. paramater "WantACookie" can have 3 and only 3 values "Yes", "No" and "Not Sure"  This parameter is used to set the text of a combobox.  I could create it as a string that correlates with this and each other KWT or script that calls this KWT just needs to send the string.  Say, however the the marketing department decided that "Not Sure" is no longer broadcasting the right message and want to change it to "I'm Thinking About It"  All those other scripts and KWTs that used to set it to "Not Sure" will break.  Is it possible to create the parameter as a list of key->value pairs.  That way my other KWTs and scripts can say the vaule should be WantACookie.NotSure and all I have to do is go to my KWTs WantACookie paramter and change the value of the "NotSure" key to "I'm thinking About It"  You would probably have to define this KVP list in the parameter type itself I guess and when setting properties in the visual editor, this "Enum" should be available the same way Variables and Parameters are from a dropdown.   A specific Use Case:   The Enum is a way to define a limited amount of set options that you know won't change Say I'm an e-commerce site.  I wan't to make sure users don't have a bad experience by accidentally buying something when they intended to just add it to the wish list.  Three tests:   1. Textbox1.Keys()->Textbox2.Keys(),texbox3.Keys,etc,-> buttonPlaceOrder.Click() -> Open Wishlist page -> Are ther items ? No -> Pass -> Open Basket -> Are there items? Yes ->Pass   2. Textbox1.Keys()->Textbox2.Keys(),texbox3.Keys,etc,-> buttonAddWishList.Click() -> Open Wishlist page -> Are ther items ? Yes -> Pass -> Open Basket -> Are there items? No ->Pass   3. Textbox1.Keys()->Textbox2.Keys(),texbox3.Keys,etc,-> buttonCance.Click()l -> Open Wishlist page -> Are ther items ? No -> Pass -> Open Basket -> Are there items? No ->Pass   All three tests have the data populate in common.  I don't really care what data is in there and I won't use it in a Data Loop so it can all be the same and be written into a single test so I don't have to duplicate all those .Keys() and .Clicks() into all my KWTs So, create one KWT PopulateOrder that does the keypresses. One step further I can see the only thing that distinguishes the process is what button gets clicked.  If I specify this as a parameter like PopulateOrder(OrderAction) I can change my tests to this by simply dragging the new KWT into my visualiser :   1. PopulateOrder(Order) -> Open Wishlist page -> Are ther items ? No -> Pass -> Open Basket -> Are there items? Yes ->Pass   2. PopulateOrder(WishList) -> Open Wishlist page -> Are ther items ? Yes -> Pass -> Open Basket -> Are there items? No ->Pass   3. PopulateOrder(Cancel)->Open Wishlist page -> Are ther items ? No -> Pass -> Open Basket -> Are there items? No ->Pass   The last steps in  my Populate order is an if statement:    If(OrderAction equals "Order"){buttonPlaceOrder.Click()}   If(OrderAction equals "WishList"){buttonAddWishList.Click()}   If(OrderAction equals "Cancel"){buttonCancel.Click()}   If I drag the KWT into another KWT I can supply this parameter.  Problem is, if a user doesn't know the exact string required and they type in, say "PlaceOrder", the KWT will fail because none of the if statements match.  If on the other hand I can define the parameter as an enum that the user can choose from a dropdown I know the logic will always work e.g.   if(OrderAction equuals OrderActionEnum.Order) {buttonPlaceOrder.Click()}   It's something I would really have appreciated when I started using TC.   It would have helped standardise my tests by always having the option based parameters defined, thereby avoiding loads of rework due to early inexperience. It still helps because I wouldn't have to open the PopulateOrder just to double check what string I need to send. ... View more

One can right click on an alias and select find mapped object. I would like to be able to right click on mapped object and find corresponding alias. ... 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

It would be nice to be able to select a series of aliases at verying levels of the higherarchy and exclude them. Presently you can only exlude mutiple aliases if they are siblings.  ... View more

From what I can tell, mapping all of the parent objects is only really neccessary in the Mapped Objects section and not so much in the alias section. Therefore, it would be nice if only the page objects and the objects interacted with were mapped in the alias section or some other means of keeping the objects in the alias section down to the bare essentials. ... View more

It would save a lot of time, and go a long way towards readability, if users could establish naming conventions for Test Complete to implement while mapping objects.   Perhaps as an extension of the templates feature where users would be able to set up how certain kinds of objects will be named. A button might be set up to be named via the following conventions: Part1(custom text)= "Tamplated", Part2(object property)= contentText, Part3(object property)= objectType, Part4(incamenting number)= start at 00.   As a result, Test complete would name a save button "TemplatedSaveButton00" and or a nav link might be named "TemplatedAbout_UsLink00" with any spaces replaced by an underscore. Should another object happen to have the same naming properties as another the incramenting number would just incrament to give it a unique name.    This would function similarly to the batch file naming capabilities of adobe bridge.  ... 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

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

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

I think that doing name mapping right is key, key, key. I would like to be able to add comments to each element in the name map as one would do with code comments. This includes allowing TODO entries that will then apper in the Task List window with double click to the instance.   Thank you for your consideration. (Will it be done by next weel? ;)) ... 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

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

Hello,   As many code editors propose, it would be interesting to be able to use keyboard shortcuts to move a line or lines of code up (CTRL+SHIFT+UP) or down (CTRL+SHIFT+DOWN).   Thank you ... View more

I use "Find Mapped Objects" function a lot to find the Mapped Objects from their Aliases. But sometimes there are only Mapped Objects created without the Aliases. There are a lot of cases that I need to find if the Alias for a Mapped Object. Currently there is no such function exist so I ended up spending a lot of time to guess which one is its Alias. Especially when an Alias was moved away from its original hierarchy to a different location, there is no way I can trace it by its hierarchy. It would be very helpful to trace the objects both ways (from Aliases to Mapped Objects and from Mapped Objects to Aliases). ... 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

Hi,   I would like to add an option to loop on group of tests. on the test managments there is an option to repeat on specific test, at the group there isn't option to change the count.   I would like to add count also on group of tests and the loop will execute all the test in that group and repeat on that the number of times as apear on the count parameter.   Ran ... 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

We would like to be able to capture any logs from the console or network messages so that we can provide specific network errors to our developers for any intermittent bugs that may occur which are of this nature. Currently, while we can open developer tools and access this via the object browser to get the elements which contain the log messages, we can't do this solely via an automated run in Test Complete. Is there a way we could get this information and if not could you add a feature for getting it? ... View more

There needs to be some way to easily customize the settings within TestExecute without having to login to every machine that has TestExecute installed on it and manually configuring it.   Either installation parameters, more execution parameters, or a human readable tcsettings.xml file that can be rewritten to configure the installation.  Something like this.  My company has 10 licenses for TestExecute, and our lab machines are very dynamic, meaning they get rebuilt often.  We are automating the setup/configuration of that environment, but this has become a limiting factor.   There are 3 key settings that I absolutely had to modify on each installation, and therefore we have opted currently to copy this XML file across all of our clients, but because the file is not human readable, I have no idea what other things are in there, and what might cause problems because I copied the file from another machine.   Also, I think it would be a good idea to have an option to make this configuration file be at the machine level rather than the user level.  While there may be a case for user specific settings, if that is not needed, managing these settings at a machine level rather than a user level would be far more efficient and less of a headache. ... View more