TestComplete Community Day - Learn & Talk With the QA Team on Nov 9
Hi everyone! Our TestComplete QA Team is eager to share their testing best practices with you on Nov 9, here, in the TestComplete Community! Throughout the entire day, we’ll be posting super-useful video sessions where TestComplete QA engineers (and devs!) are going to share how they test things here at SmartBear. And since it’s an event, you’ll have the chance to ask any on-topic questions in the comments under the event posts, and they’ll get back to you. By participating in the event activities, you not only get the deep insights on how to best use TestComplete, you can also get event points and win prizes from SmartBear! here's What you can do now Subscribe to the #CommunityDay2021 label so you don’t miss any event updates or posts. Event Schedule Speaker Event post Start time Andrew Redkin, TestComplete QA Engineer Video Session – Integrating OS X in the TestComplete Testing Process Nov 9 7 am GMT Alexandr Gubarev, TestComplete Senior Test Lead, Test Manager Video Session – Regression Testing of Performance Nov 9 8 am GMT - Activity – Become Academy Certified Nov 9 9 am GMT Vladimir Yatskovskiy, TestComplete Test Run Manager Video Session – A Test Lab and How to Maintain It Nov 9 10 am GMT Igor Staroverov, TestComplete QA Engineer Video Session – Scalable Web Tests Nov 9 11 am GMT Sergey Sammal, Software Engineering Manager Video Session – BDD with TestComplete and CucumberStudio Nov 9 12 pm GMT Participation rules (to get event points) We will use event points to identify the winners. To qualify, your participation needs to take place on November 9. Here’s how you can earn them: Watch the video ➡️ Give Kudos to the post (+1 point) ➡️ Ask a question about the video topic (+2 points) Bonus +2 points for the best question (selected by the speaker) And, that’s how you can get 5 points per post! For the Become Academy Certified event session, you can get bonus points for sharing the certificates you attained for TestComplete learning courses in the SmartBear Academy: Complete any TestComplete courses mentioned in the event post ➡️ Post the certificate you got to the post comments (+2 points per certificate) Again, all these actions need to be taken on November 9. Your time zone doesn’t matter, as long as it’s still Nov 9 where you are 😊 Good luck to all participants!Community Day 2021 - Become Academy Certified
Today is a great day to improve your knowledge of TestComplete! Boost your learning curve and get Community Day 2021 event points by sharing your certificates of course completion in the comments. Get TestComplete Certified!🏅 We offer a lot of free courses for the tool in the SmartBear Academy. Here's the list of the most popular ones completing which will help you learn the tool fast: Automate Manual Testing With TestComplete TestComplete Introductory Training TestComplete Web Automation Engineer TestComplete Desktop Automation Engineer TestComplete QA Architect Become a Community Day Winner!🏆 Share the TestComplete certificates that you earned in the SmartBear Academy in the comment below! Each certificate will bring you 2 event points. It doesn't have to be from today - if you passed the exams in the Academy earlier - share the certificates too! Read more about participation rules.Community Day 2021 - Regression Testing of Performance
Let's move on to the next session of the day. Not to miss any sessions, subscribe to the event tag - #CommunityDay2021. We will be posting great content for the entire day today! Regression Testing of Performance by Alexandr Gubarev,TestComplete Senior Test Lead The session takes a really deep dive into the subject. This talk is based on the experience of the TestComplete and ReadyAPI QA teams when they had decided to rapidly extend test suites to protect users from performance regressions. This video will be useful for those who want to add performance checks to their functional tests, regardless of the type of application: Desktop, Web, Mobile, or even a web service. We will define a common approach when and for which scenarios you need to do regression performance testing, tell you about the useful features of TestComplete, learn advanced Google Sheets practices, and share recipes for quickly implementing performance checks in your tests. Become a Community Day Winner!🏆 Watch the video sessions, post your questions and give Kudos to get the event points! Read more about participation rules. Watch the session: The VideoRecorderextension developed by Alexandr mentioned in the interview. Timestamps: 00:00 Speaker introduction 03:22 About regression and performance testing 04:45 Example of the case 06:04 Defining scenarios 09:28 Steps of tests 10:58 Using the Google Sheets for POC 11:53 TestComplete: aqPerfomance object 13:22 TestComplete: Time with Children in Log 15:15 TestComplete: Performance Counters monitoring 16:26 Demo: defining of the scenario 17:15 Demo: high-level steps 18:12 Demo: measuring 20:13 Demo: Google Sheets as storage 21:04 Demo: report table 22:43 Demo: creating web service on Google Sheets 24:51 Demo: how to publish your report for manager 25:22 Demo: work with web service from TestComplete 26:38 Demo: tests run 29:37 Some final words Any questions on regression testing of performance? Ask away in the comments below!
Community Day 2021 - A Test Lab and How to Maintain It
Another super informative session awaits! Don't forget to subscribe to the event tag -#CommunityDay2021 - more awesome content is coming. A Test Lab and How to Maintain It by Vladimir Yatskovskiy, TestComplete Test Run Manager Maintaining a test lab is certainly among the most crucial tasks for a QA team.This session uncovers how a TestComplete test lab is structured and maintained. It gives an overview of how the TestComplete QA team built the environment and how they manage it. It would be of special interest for anyone in the process of creating/updating your test lab or if you are simply curious about our way of doing things! Become a Community Day Winner!🏆 Watch the video sessions, post your questions and give Kudos to get the event points! Read more about participation rules. Watch the session: Timestamps: 00:00 Speaker introduction 01:48 The session's start 02:31 Hardware in the lab 03:04 Why we went this way 05:05 Base image idea 05:52 What is on base images 06:20 Test code and application 07:55 Test launch system 08:15 Dynamic hosts load 08:52 Day load for lab facilities 11:23 Examples of automation in the lab Any questions about the lab maintenance process? The QA team will be more than happy to provide answers!
Community Day 2021 - BDD with CucumberStudio and TestComplete
This awesome video session concludes the video series the TestComplete QA team prepared for Community Day 2021! However, the event is far from being over - our team is ready for your questions! Feel free to ask them in the comments to any videos sessions that can be found under the event tag - #CommunityDay2021 BDD with CucumberStudio and TestComplete by Sergey Sammal, Software Engineering Manager This video describes how SmartBear CucumberStudio and TestComplete can be combined together for implementing the BDD approach in your test automation. Including Jenkins into this set will complete your solution with full orchestration. We will show a step-by-step guide using our example project on how to achieve this goal and what benefits you will have using SmartBear tools. Become a Community Day Winner!🏆 Watch the video sessions, post your questions and give Kudos to get the event points! Read more about participation rules. Watch the session: Timestamps: 00:00 Speaker introduction 02:32 The session's start 03:20 Why we choose BDD 04:20 CucumberStudio introduction 06:00 TestComplete introduction 07:44 Test automation & orchestration flows 09:18 Demo Part: CucumberStudio & TestComplete Integration 11:28 Demo Part: Demo automatic test run 13:15 Demo Part: Run project from Jenkins 15:50 Demo Part: Test run results Post your questions to the speaker in the comments below to get event points and win prizes🙂
Community Day 2021 - Scalable Web Tests
Scalable tests are a big topic in the QA industry for sure! Enjoy the session and subscribe to the event tag not to miss out on more quality content. Scalable Web Tests by Igor Staroverov, TestComplete QA Engineer This video session explains the new mode of working with Web Objects in TestComplete. This mode is based on using the Selenium framework. Today, this framework is widely used in web testing and that’s why the transition to TestComplete will be smooth and easy. The new mode is the combination of the two powerful products - TestComplete and Selenium. Become a Community Day Winner!🏆 Watch the video sessions, post your questions and give Kudos to get the event points! Read more about participation rules. Watch the session: Timestamps: 00:00 Speaker's introduction 01:34 Explaining the new mode of working with Web Objects in TestComplete 06:13 Creating a project using the new Web mode 07:01 Recording a simple test 08:30 NameMapping 09:06 Working with Selectors 14:26 Special methods 17:25 Launching a test on a remote browser using CBT 19:36 Launching tests on several remote browsers in parallel using CBT Got questions? We are ready to answer🙂
Community Day 2021 - Integrating OS X in the TestComplete Testing Process
Hi TestComplete Community, Community Day 2021 is here! This is going to be a great day full of QA insights. The first session is already available below. Integrating OS X in the TestComplete Testing Process by Andrew Redkin,TestComplete QA Engineer In this session,you will learn tips and tricks of how to run bash scripts on remote computers with OS X with the help of TestComplete and the Plink utility, how to synchronize files from OS X with a shared Windows folder, and how to correctly set up a TestComplete project to work with an iOS device from the BitBar device cloud. This process is pretty easy but has a couple of peculiarities explained in this session. Enjoy the video session and ask your questions regarding the video session in the comments below, our QA team is excited to share their expertise with you! Become a Community Day Winner!🏆 Watch the video session, post your questions and give Kudos to get event points! Read more about participation rules. Watch the session: Timestamps: 00:00 Speaker introduction 02:29 The session's start 02:49 The use case description 03:17 Settings on OS X 05:00 The Plink utility description 05:20 Creating and setting up a project in TestComplete 06:57 Writing script in TestComplete for running bash scripts on remote Apple Mac 10:34 Settings for working with BitBar 13:12 Writing a test for a mobile application Our team is ready to answer your questions on the topic in the comments below!
Community Day 2021 - Winners
HiTestCompleteCommunity! It’s time to reveal theTestCompleteCommunity Day 2021 results and award the winners. It’s been an awesome eventthat we enjoyed preparing for you, and we really hope you found the topics informative and useful. If you missed any of the sessions, you can always find them under the event tag - #CommunityDay2021 Thank you for your activity and participation. We were happy to see you sharing your experiences withour QA team and other community membersand learning new things. In the end, I think the event proved thatwe all share the same goals–tokeep growingand todeliver great quality by doing something that we love. Now, let me announce the event winners based on event points earned: 🥇1stplace winners will be awarded with a $30 gift card. They are: Lee_M- 26 points Marsha_R- 23 points UConnAnnMarie- 14 points 🥈2nd place winners will be awarded with a $20 gift card. They are: AlexKaras- 9 points nickoa2001- 8 points hannecroonen- 4 points tphillips- 4 points nisgupta- 4 points 🥉3rdplacewinners will be awarded with a $10 gift card. They are: romrellob- 2 points anngeiger- 2 points wwirch- 1 point All winners will also be rewarded with a special community badge. If you want to earn unique badges like this one - participate in our future events🙂 Congratulations! We will reach out to you individually via community private messages to send the rewards. Thanks again to all participants - you are awesome🙂 Stay tuned for more great events in theSmartBear Community!
