Contributions
Re: TC for non-development IT dept?
Thanks Phil - when I get a break from our current round of upgrade testing, I'll have to download the TC trial and see if I can figure those tools out. Those links you provided look helpful. I was doing some more research online and realized the correct term for what I want is 'automated regression testing'. I am worried/curious about how much work maintaining test scripts will be. I know it'll be a heavy initial upfront investment to create our library of scripts, but I've read horror stories of people spending as much time (if not more) trying to maintain/fix their test scripts, as just testing the system manually.732Views0likes0CommentsTC for non-development IT dept?
This may seem like a dumb question -- but can TC be used for automated testing of 3rd party desktop applications? We're not a development shop, but our IT dept supports a variety of applications used by our end-users, and we spend WAY too much time doing manual testing when vendors ship us hotfixes, upgrade packages, etc. I'd love to have a solution where we can have a suite of end-user workflows/tasks scripted, so when the newest patch for an app comes out I can fire up our test environment, run the suite of tests and make sure nothing breaks. Our biggest PITA is a legacy VB6 app that makes liberal use of what appear to be some kind of browser component - sort of a strange hybrid of old VB UI forms mixed in with newer, shinier HTML/XML-based UI. Thoughts?1.8KViews0likes3Comments