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!July 2021 | TestComplete Community News
Hello TestComplete Community! At the beginning of each month, we post the most exciting things about the TestComplete Community and the tool itself. Let’s see what June has brought us! inside Testcomplete We’re continuing our series of interviews with the TestComplete Team members. This time, we spoke with TestComplete Developers Team Lead, Stanislav Egorov (SEgorov). Stas has been part of TestComplete development for many years and helped build a substantial part of the tool’s functionality. Check out our interview. If you like the video, don’t forget to give it Kudos and leave comments! WATCH THE INTERVIEW>> Find more Inside TestComplete interviews underTestCompleteTeam tag. Q2 2021 COMMUNITY LEADERS The first half of 2021 is over, and it’s been a productive time for the TestComplete Community for sure. It’s time to announce the quarterly Community Leaders! For the past quarter, these community members have been the most helpful and knowledgeable in TestComplete: Marsha_RAlexKaras For ReadyAPI and SoapUI OS: @nmrao, @richie, @HimanshuTayal For Zephyr Scale: @MisterB Congrats, folks! Your dedication to the SmartBear Community is amazing! Each of you will get a $50 gift card as a token of appreciation from SmartBear. A note for those who haven’t discovered our Leaders program yet: any SmartBear Community members can become a quarterly Leader. All you need to do is to be active on the forums – participate in discussions and help others! Being a Community Leader has a lot of benefits, which you can learn more about from this article:3 Simple Steps to Become a TestComplete Community Leader smartbear academy The SmartBear Academy has a plethora of great free learning courses for TestComplete. Completing them is a great way to learn the tool from scratch, master your skills of testing with TestComplete, and get certified! Each SmartBear Community member who earns a certificate in the Academy gets special recognition in the Community – a unique Academy Certified badge. Let’s congratulate everyone who passed the exams for TestComplete courses last month: Hassan_Ballan, AdrianDSV, osmarfer, Larry_M, OfficeApps, AnushaDesam, jfmol54, alijahluis, mramirezb, otomazeli, ArunReddiar, SiwarSayahi,awesomeme Great job, everyone! Don’t forget to share your certificates on LinkedIn and Twitter with a #SmartBear hashtag to show off your achievement! product updates We had not only one, but two updates for TestComplete this month! Version 14.90 in June, and version 14.91 just came out. Among the biggest enhancementsfor the two releases: Mobile testing improvements Support for iOS 14.5.1 and iOS 14.6 You can orchestrate parallel runs of your mobile tests – in the BitBar device cloud or on mobile devices controlled by a private Appium server easier – by using the Execution Plan Better support for timeouts when working with devices in the BitBar cloud The Mobile Screen window of TestComplete now shows both the list of connected mobile devices and recently used devices TestComplete can now capture images during parallel test runs on mobile devices managed by BitBar and local Appium Web testing improvements Support for Google Chrome 91 Support for Firefox 89 Use project and project suite variables to specify the URL of a tested website when orchestrating your parallel web test runs in the Execution Plan editor Microsoft Dynamics support SAP GUI support enhancements And more! Readaboutmoreimprovements here:What's New in TestComplete 14.91. If you have amaintenance subscription,go here toupdate to TestComplete 14.91. If you’re interestedinTestCompletebut don’t have it,request a free30-day trial. MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Any great discussions you participated in last month? If not, then we’ve got some great ones you can jump in to – here’s our list of the hottest discussion for June 2021: - ReadyAPI timeout causing failure within TestComplete test run. - Data driven loop round collection of variables - Getting Error: Unable to navigate to the URL/page while launching tests -Electron application Object Browser shows only generic "Panel" objects in tree - Test automation on Virtual Machines That’s all for June TestComplete news! We hope you found this article interesting. Feel free to comment below – we’d love to get your feedback. See you on the community forums!June 2021 | TestComplete Community News
Hi Community! Welcome to the monthly TestComplete Community news. Let’s get into the May 2021 highlights! inside Testcomplete We continue our community introduction to the TestComplete team by talking with Emma Barbera, a Solutions Engineer focusing on TestComplete. I am sure a lot of you met Emma on the forums, her community name isebarbera We spoke about Emma’s work responsibilities, how she became part of the Team, and her personal experience of learning TestComplete. Check out the video interview below. If you liked the video, don’t forget to give it Kudos and leave comments! WATCH THE INTERVIEW>> Find more Inside TestComplete interviews underTestCompleteTeam tag. TOP COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS One month left until we announce the quarterly TestComplete Community Leaders. Becoming a Community Leader is easier than you think – contribute to the Community by posting replies and get Kudos! For now, let’s congratulate the top contributors for May 2021: Marsha_R,AlexKaras,ebarbera,mikef,MarkSchofer Great job! smartbear academy May was a big month for the SmartBear Academy: 1. We made updates so that it’s easier than ever to navigate. 2. We published 3(!) new free TestComplete learning courses: TestComplete Desktop Automation Engineer – Learn how to create automated tests for desktop apps from scratch! TestComplete Web Automation Engineer – Learn the specifics of creating web tests as it guides you through the test creation process. TestComplete QA Architect – This course will be extremely helpful for a QA Manager. It speaks about standardizing and deploying test automation, making the tests maintainable by all relevant stakeholders, and how to report test outcomes to relevant management tools. Enroll in any of the courses today, learn new things, and come back to the TestComplete Community to share your knowledge and get more Kudos! MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Great conversations sparkle in the TestCompelte Community daily. Take a look at the biggest discussions for May, and feel free to participate: Read the status of .mht file which is already Exported Smart Bear Suddenly Stopped Recording Copying variable Table data missing after closing TestComplete Update Test Execution version using command line (via Jenkins) or in any other way Community enhancements Our goal is to keep improving your community experience. Recently we’ve deployed a new feature – now you can reply to the community posts you follow right from the email notification. You can accept solutions and give Kudos, too! Simply click the corresponding link in the email you receive from the SmartBear Community and you are good to go: Read more about this feature here and stay tuned for more improvements! That’s all for this month – and don’t forget to post any questions/comments you have below. Let’s have an awesome June!May 2021 | TestComplete Community News
Hi all, welcome to the May TestComplete Community News. This is your monthly news digest dedicated to highlights of the TestComplete Community life. All feedback is appreciated – simply leave any comments/suggestions below. Let’s start! Meet THE Testcomplete TEAM Are you curious about the people behind TestComplete and their insights? We’ve got you covered – we started a series of interviews with the TestComplete Team, and the first interview is a special one. Our guest is Prashant Mohan, Director of Product Management focusing on TestComplete. Prashant determines which direction the tool will take, and he shared his thoughts on the TestComplete roadmap and how it aligns with the QA trends. Subscribe to the TestCompleteTeam label – we’ll be posting more interviews with the TestComplete Team soon. WATCH THE INTERVIEW>> TOP COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTORS The activity levels have been great in the TestComplete Community in April. Many of you contributed by asking questions, offering solutions, sharing your use cases... way to go! Here are the most active community members for the last month – they got the biggest number of Kudos! Let’s congratulate them: Marsha_R,AlexKaras,ebarbera,vinniew,tristaanogre Product update The TestComplete Team released a new product version recently: TestComplete 14.81. Another great feature-packed release that followed a bigger one - 14.80. Among the most prominent improvements in the two releases: Enhanced cloud-compatible mobile testing Run mobile tests in parallel Smarter web testing Better object recognition and object mapping in web applications Support for proxies in cross-platform web tests Device Cloud add-on is no longer needed for cross-platform tests Easier parallel test runs New Salesforce Support plugin And much more! Readaboutmoreimprovements here:What's New in TestComplete 14.81. If you have amaintenance subscription,go here toupdate to TestComplete 14.81. If you’re interestedinTestCompletebut don’t have it,request a free30-day trial. TESTCOMPLETE TRAINING New to TestComplete? Check out our class, TestComplete Introductory Training. This video gives you a nice overview of all the major TestComplete features and will be extremely helpful for new users, or even those who just need a refresher. For more classes, visit the SmartBear Academy. The SmartBear Academy isa great resource for anyone willing to improve their knowledge of TestComplete,or any other SmartBear products. Just create anaccount and get free access to learning courses! MOST DISCUSSED TOPICS Here are the biggest community discussions this past April. Feel free to participate in any of them! Sum of two variable values breaking out of loop iteration FindChildByXpath throws error in testcomplete Is TC able to manipulate webpage by using browser developer tool? Parameterized test step That’s all for today. Feel free to post your comments below. Stay awesome, TestComplete Community!
