How to find time difference from action to another?

[IRISQATeam]

Hi,
I need to measure the time difference from one action to another. For example, whenever I click the Login button, it loads the login page. I need to find the time difference, how long it took to load the login page after clicking Login button?

Thank you. 

[tristaanogre · Accepted solution]

When doing a Keyword test, there is a Performance group of actions that allows you to start a timer and then get the value of that timer at a particular point.  This is one way to do what you want.

For script code, there's the HISUtils.StopWatch object that you can utilize to start a timer and then log/check elapsed time.

[cunderw]

Test Complete 12.5 also has a time difference column in the logs by default now. 

[tristaanogre]

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@cunderw wrote:

Test Complete 12.5 also has a time difference column in the logs by default now. 

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Yeah, that's a pretty awesome new feature.  I like it much. 🙂 There is a minor caveat... you need to actually log something to see that.  So, if you're just logging in and then doing a page.Wait without anything being written to the log once the page is loaded, the elapsed time column isn't going to help.  This doesn't negate the awesomeness of the new feature, just means that, if you need to make those measurements, you need to write out measurement "bookmarks" to the log to see the elapsed time.

[cunderw]

Ahhhh, I didn't even catch that. I probably log too much so didn't even notice lol.

[IRISQATeam]

Thank you everyone for your help.