TestComplete10 performance is very slow

I'm also having performance problems with the 10.10 update.



Have a thread here: http://smartbear.com/forums/f81/t88833/huge-performance-hit-using-testexecute-10-10/



But it only seems to be TestExecute and is everything. Not application specific.



I've raised a support ticket. Details in the linked thread.

If finding object by CSS Selector or XPath, test scripts have to be updated frequently when each time of updating web page.



If ID of the element is unique on the web page then you should not worry about the page structure, you should just call something like that:



var obj = page.QuerySelector("#element_id");

if (obj != null)

  obj.Click();

Hi.. I am having severe playback issues with Chrome as well. I am on the latest version of the Chrome patch as well as Test Complete. My scripts run quite zippy on IE but drag in Chrome. Has there been any progress with this issue/thread? It would be quite cumbersome for me to go back through 3000+ lines of code and add in query selectors and finds when I don't need them in IE.



Thanks,



Veronica

I am also experiencing huge performance problems with identifying objects using NativeWebObject.Find with Chrome. IE and Firefox run the same code about 4x faster (Chrome = 56s, IE = 18s, FF = 12s). I have also disabled all unused TC extensions, but it didn't help. I think the problem started after updating from TC9.31 to TC10.20. Any suggestions or new information would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian

Hi all,



I tried to replace Keys event by setting wText property.

Performance of test script is still  extremely slow.



So I think performace issue occurs at code of  finding test object as below:

   var MotorCarrier = page["NativeWebObject"]["Find"]("id", "MotorCarrierZipCode");



When finding other test object, performance issue also occurs similar.

Please give me any suggestion to improve performance of finding test object.



Thanks

Hi Tanya,



I measured the finding test object time and Keys event time by using StopWatch for 2 test object as below:

Test Object 1:

 // Starts the time counter

  StopWatch1 = HISUtils["StopWatch"];

 StopWatch1["Start"]();

 var startDateControl = page["NativeWebObject"]["Find"]("id", "startDate0_I");

 // Stop the time counter and write to text file

  StopWatch1["Stop"]();

  aqFile["WriteToTextFile"](sPath, "Find Object time:" + StopWatch1["ToString"]()+

                            "\r\n", aqFile["ctANSI"], false);



// Starts the time counter

  StopWatch2 = HISUtils["StopWatch"];

  StopWatch2["Start"]();

  startDateControl["Click"]();

  startDateControl["Keys"]("^a");

  startDateControl["Keys"]("[BS]");

  startDateControl["Keys"](valueList["Item"]("StartDate"));

// Stop the time counter and write to text file

  StopWatch2["Stop"]();

  aqFile["WriteToTextFile"](sPath, "Key event time:" + StopWatch2["ToString"]()+

                            "\r\n", aqFile["ctANSI"], false);

Test Object 2: measurement way is similar to test object 1.



The measurement result is as below:

Object 1:

Find Object time:00:00:38.782

Key event time:00:00:00.858

Object 2:

Find Object time:00:00:41.949

Key event time:00:00:00.780



From above result I found that:

Finding object took a long time(object1: ~38s, object2: ~41s).

Keys event is executed quite fast (object1: ~0.8s, object2: ~0.7s)



I referred [Automated test performance tips] and performced steps as this page guide.

For detail please refer the attached fle.



Thanks,

In addition to Tanya's suggestion you can speed up the search using Page.QuerySelector or Page.FindChildByXPath methods.



See details about these and the other methods here:

http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/62848/

Hi Tanya, Hanya,



Thanks for your suggestion.

My web page is still being developed. It is ussually modified about GUI, html structure (hml code is genearated by Devexpress tool).

Only ID property is rarely changed.

Therefore, I have to use ID properly to handle controls.



If finding object by CSS Selector or XPath, test scripts have to be updated frequently when each time of updating web page.

So I will investigate to find control's parent then find child control in parent.

However this way is only effective if applying for a few controls.

If applying for many controls, numbers of line of test code  and effort for coding test script are very huge .



Hien