August 2021 | TestComplete Community News
Hi TestComplete Community, Welcome to our monthly news digest for August – let’s start! INSIDE TESTCOMPLETE As promised, we’d like to introduce two more members of the TestComplete Team! This time around, we invited the very people who write the TestComplete documentation. We pride ourselves on how thorough and well-written the help articles are for this product, and we’re excited to introduce Julia Klimenkova, Senior Technical Writer, and Alina Blohova, Technical Writer. We spoke about the challenges the team faces when dealing with feature-packed TestComplete releases (especially now, when the tool is released monthly), touched upon their favorite help topics, and more. Watch the video and feel free to say ‘hi’ to Julia and Alina in the comments! WATCH THE INTERVIEW>> Find more Inside TestComplete interviews under the TestCompleteTeam label. SMARTBEAR ACADEMY For us, it’s important that each community member has access to all free educational resources for TestComplete. If you haven’t enrolled in the TestComplete learning courses in the SmartBear Academy yet, you can do it right now – here's the list of all free courses for TestComplete. You’re not just getting profound knowledge about the tool, but gaining authority points in the TestComplete Community as well! We assign an Academy Certified badge to all community members who get certificates after successfully completing courses. Let’s congratulate everyone who passed exams for TestComplete courses last month: Sulochana12, satishmatere, smithrob, jaredcscott, HarryJ, koram, PRajeswari, QAxians, Sandhiya, kentcamp, leon1208, RogerKittelson, Jacy, slecault, KristinaA, sambumca Congratulations! Make sure to share your certificates on LinkedIn and Twitter with a #SmartBear hashtag – let everyone know about your success! BIG SMARTBEAR COMMUNITY SITE UPDATE Take a look around at the new community page updates. We’ve implemented some changes that we hope will enhance your overall SmartBear Community experience! When you read conversations, ask questions, give Kudos, share your knowledge – we know it matters. Each activity is extremely important for the SmartBear Community, so we’ve done our best to make it better. Here are some improvements: - A new light main menu with quick navigation across product communities and quick access to the “Ask a Question” button - A new design of topic pages to help you concentrate on creating your topic - A decreased number of options in the topic and post menus, with only the most important ones left - Labels to replace the tag functionality. Please make sure you select the needed label when submitting a question – this is how we categorize topics Have a question? Let us know! TOP COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS Last month, we announced the quarterly TestComplete Community Leaders. These are the members who proved the most active and helpful on the forums. Any one of you can become a Community Leader in Q3: just participate in discussions, share solutions, and create useful technical content! Being a Community Leader isn’t just a fancy community rank – it has a lot of benefits. Learn more about it from this article: 3 Simple Steps to Become a TestComplete Community Leader. As for now, please join me in congratulating the following community members who showed the most activity last month: Marsha_R, A_Roskoshnyi, AlexKaras, hkim5, mattb, MarkSchofer, Lee_M Most discussed topics The TestComplete Community had some great tool- and industry-related discussions last month. Big thanks to all participants – you’re enriching the community with your knowledge and experience daily! Check out July’s biggest discussions: - Read entries in browser console - ListView - GetCell() method - Data generator question - Login object cannot be found anymore - Why Would A script Record Differently That’s all for the August TestComplete news digest! Leave your comments below to let us know about your personal highlights in the TestComplete Community. Have a wonderful August!March 2021 | TestComplete Community News
Hello TestComplete Community! We are glad you liked the first edition of TestComplete Community News, so here's the second issue! Our monthly digest covers community life, product updates, and more. Let's jump right into it! Community Leader Interview We’d like to introduce one of our 'freshmen' Community Leaders – Thomas Phillips. His community username is tphillips, and he’s been very active on the forums helping fellow TestComplete users. Check out our interview with him to learn more about his background, his TestComplete learning curve advice, and which features of the tool he uses the most. WATCH THE INTERVIEW >> top Contributors The TestComplete Community never sleeps! Community members are located all over the globe – no such things as time zones here. Thousands of people visit weekly to ask questions, share use cases, and help others find solutions. Let's see whose efforts stood out in February. When you think a post is good – give it Kudos! This is how other members will know it contains valuable information. Our top Kudoed members for February are: AlexKaras , Marsha_R , BenoitB , tphillips, hkim5 Who is willing to compete with them in March?😊 Product Updates Our update game is strong, and we are happy to announce TestComplete 14.74. The highlights of this release include: Mobile testing in device clouds (like BitBar) Orchestrating parallel test runs of your cross-platform web tests visually, straight from the Execution Plan editor of your project SAP support And much more! Read about more improvements here: What's New in TestComplete 14.74. If you have a maintenance subscription, go here to update to TestComplete 14.74. If you’re interested in TestComplete but don’t have it, request a free 30-day trial. New techcorner articles There’s an easy way to learn about new helpful materials. We keep all technical articles, use cases, script samples, and other stuff for TestComplete under the TechCorner tag. Subscribe to the tag to get notified about all new TechCorner posts! Last months, the two articles were added to TestComplete TechCorner: - TestComplete integration with Gitlab (or in theory any CICD) by hkim5 - Advanced search object for complex model by BenoitB Thank you for adding more great content to this Community! Most Discussed Topics A lot of quality technical talk happened in the forums this month. The TestComplete Community is a great place to talk to peers about your use cases. Take a look at the most discussed topics for February: TestComplete + Chromium based Edge browser support Converting an old project to CSS/XPATH Capturing the Command Line of a Process running in the Task Manager TestComplete license - Desktop module Measure the time it takes for a button to become enabled Academy Certified If you pass an exam successfully and get a certificate, you receive a special badge in the SmartBear Community! Let’s congratulate those who successfully passed TestComplete exams last month and got the Academy Certified badges: claudiaborges ThomasCasserly Edgar Congratulations! That’s all for this newsletter! Thanks everyone for your active participation in TestComplete Community life! You are the people who make this community so supportive and awesome. /SmartBear Community TeamFebruary 2021 | TestComplete Community News
Hello to the TestComplete Community! Welcome to the first edition of our monthly digest dedicated to TestComplete product and community news! We have a lot to share: new release info, interviews (with TestComplete team members and Community Leaders), the hottest community topics, top members, global SmartBear Community highlights, and more. Subscribe to the CommunityNews tag to stay in the know. Let us know what else you’d like to see in the monthly news with the comment section below! TestComplete Contributors Our TestComplete Community has answers to all sorts of product-related questions, thanks to you, our community members! If you have a problem with TestComplete, you can always find help and guidance here. In honor of those who make this page so helpful and contribute as much as they can, we’d like to shout-out the most active members of January 2021! The following TestComplete gurus received the biggest number of Kudos this month. (Kudos are a surefire way of knowing you’re doing things right and being helpful.) They are: AlexKaras , Marsha_R , BenoitB , tphillips , hkim5 Thank you for your efforts -- you’re doing a great job! Testcomplete 20-Year Anniversary Trivia! At the end of 2020, we celebrated 20 years of TestComplete excellence! Can you guess which of these are true, based on what we learned from SergeiLisitsyn, the founder of TestComplete? (The correct answers are hidden under a ‘spoiler’.) 1. What was the earliest ‘prototype’ of TestComplete? a. AQTime b. An AQTime Plugin c. TestExecute d. SoapUI [Correct answer] B: A plugin for AQTime. It was created for automated testing, and became the inspiration behind TestComplete. 2. The TestComplete Team values product quality above all. At one point they spent a lot of time simply improving the internal architecture of the tool. How much time did they spend on that? a. A month b. Two months c. Half a year d. A year [Correct answer] D : A year. The team spent a whole year to specifically improve the internal logic of TestComplete, to ensure it’s super reliable and easier to use. 3. What’s Sergei Lisitsyn’s personal record of working non-stop to fix things and overcome unexpected obstacles? a. 10 hours b. 24 hours c. 36 hours d. 2 days [Correct answer] C: 36 hours. Once Sergei spent 36 hours in a row working on TestComplete without any break or sleep! Wow! 4. What’s Sergei’s advice for all people starting a big project? a. Love what you do. b. Trust in your team and yourself. c. See your goal clearly. d. Pay less attention to the obstacles – you will get through them! [Correct answer] All of the above! How many did you get right? If you want more insights about TestComplete, watch an interview with its founder, Sergei Lisitsyn, about what went into your favorite testing tool! >> Watch the interview with Sergei Lisitsyn Product Updates TestComplete gets regular updates and releases – each of them brings you something additional to support your testing efforts. We’re happy to announce that a brand-new version of the tool was released last week – TestComplete 14.73! Some of the key improvements in v.14.73: Enhancements in cross-platform web tests: you can now create and run tests for web applications working in your local networks. Smarter SmartBear Test extension installation. Smarter object recognition in web applications. TestComplete can now identify text area and input box controls by their labels. Full support for the Chromium-based version of Edge. Support for recent versions of web browsers (Google Chrome 88, Mozilla Firefox 85). Support for Android 11 (API Level 30). Support for iOS 14.3. You can now create and run automated tests on this version. Testing iOS applications created with the latest Xcode release – version 12.3. Read about more improvements here: What's New in TestComplete 14.73. If you have a maintenance subscription, go here to update to TestComplete 14.73. If you’re interested in TestComplete but don’t have it, request a free 30-day trial. Most Discussed Topics In this past month, we saw a lot of fruitful conversations start up in the TestComplete Community. We love a good discussion! Check out these most popular topics in the last month and feel free to participate. Perhaps you have something to add to the conversation: TestComplete + Chromium based Edge browser support Converting an old project to CSS/XPATH Capturing the Command Line of a Process running in the Task Manager TestComplete license - Desktop module Measure the time it takes for a button to become enabled Wintertainment Feedback The year ended on a positive note in the SmartBear Community – we set up our awesome Wintertainment 2020 event that you liked so much. Each day we posted an article on testing trends to take with you to 2021 and gave valuable advice about working with SmartBear tools. TestComplete got its fair share of articles during Wintertainment. If you didn’t catch them the first time, you can check them out here: Increasing Test Coverage and Scalability With the Device Cloud Improving Testing Quality With Better Test Management If you want a look at all the articles, look under the Wintertainment20 label. We asked the participants to record video feedback about this event – let’s see what they have to say😊 >> Watch the Wintertainment feedback video Thanks to everyone who sent the videos, it is always nice to see you! We’re glad you liked Wintertainment 2020 and will work even harder to bring more great events in 2021. That’s all we’ve got for today. You’re welcome to share your thoughts and suggestions, ask questions, or just say ‘hi’ to fellow TestComplete Community members in the comments below. Thank you, and let’s have a great February! /SmartBear Community Team
TestComplete turned 20 today! Let’s celebrate!
Hello all, Twenty years ago, TestComplete was created to help software professionals ensure the quality of any application. And, thanks to your continued business, and this community’s innovative ideas, TestComplete continues to be one of the world’s most popular testing solutions, year after year. At SmartBear, we share your passion for the continuous delivery of high-quality software, and we thank you for helping TestComplete reach this milestone. Want to learn more about how TestComplete came to be and its growth over the years? Check out our latest episode of The SmartBear Founders Series? https://smartbear.wistia.com/medias/ut469hik9m
