- TestComplete Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- TestComplete Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Getting Started
- Introduction
- Installing TestComplete
- Creating your first project
- Choosing a scripting language for the project
- Recording your first test
- Modifying the recorded test
- Saving and restoring user settings
- Creating code templates
- Delaying script execution
- Adding and removing project items
- Understanding how TestComplete interacts with tested applications
- Understanding Object Browser
- Using Object Spy
- 2. Working with Tested Applications
- Introduction
- Adding a tested application project item
- Running a tested application from the script
- Terminating a tested application
- Killing several instances of a tested application
- Closing a tested application
- Running a tested application in the Debug mode
- Running a tested application under a different user account
- Changing tested application settings dynamically from the script
- Running external programs and DOS commands
- Testing installers – running an MSI file
- 3. Scripting
- Introduction
- Entering text into text fields
- Using wildcards to process objects with variable names
- Structuring code using loops
- Creating property checkpoints
- Creating object checkpoints
- Using global variables
- Testing multilingual applications
- Working with nonstandard controls
- Organizing script code in the project
- Handling exceptions
- Handling exceptions from a different unit
- Creating framework using the OOP approach
- 4. Running Tests
- Introduction
- Running a single function
- Verifying test accuracy
- Creating a test plan for regular runs
- Running tests from the command line
- Passing additional parameters to test from the command line
- Organizing test plan runs
- Scheduling automatic runs at nighttime
- Running tests via Remote Desktop
- Changing playback options
- Increasing run speed
- Disabling a screensaver when running scripts
- Sending messages to Indicator
- Showing a message window during a script run
- 5. Accessing Windows, Controls, and Properties
- Introduction
- Choosing Object Tree Model
- Understanding the window's life cycle
- Ignoring overlapping windows
- Dragging one object into another
- Calling methods asynchronously
- Verifying if an object has a specific property
- Finding objects by properties' values
- Waiting for an object to appear
- Waiting for a property value
- Mapping custom control classes to standard ones
- Using text recognition to access text from nonstandard controls
- Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
- Dealing with self-drawn controls not supported by TestComplete
- 6. Logging Capabilities
- Introduction
- Posting messages to the log
- Posting screenshots to the log
- Creating folders in the log
- Changing log messages' appearance
- Assessing the number of errors in the log
- Changing pictures' format
- Comparing screenshots with dynamic content
- Decreasing log size
- Generating log in our own format
- Exporting log to MHT format
- Sending logs via e-mail
- 7. Debugging Scripts
- 8. Keyword Tests
- 9. Data-driven Testing
- Introduction
- Generating random data for tests
- Accessing a specific cell in a table
- Reading all data from a table
- Using DDT tables for storing expected values
- Changing CSV delimiter and other parameters
- Driving data without using loops
- Accessing Excel spreadsheets without having MS Office installed
- Auto-detecting Excel driver
- 10. Testing Web Applications
- 11. Distributed Testing
- 12. Events Handling
- Introduction
- Creating event handlers
- Disabling the postage of certain error messages
- Clicking on disabled controls without an error message
- Handling unexpected windows that affect TestComplete
- Handling unexpected windows that don't affect TestComplete
- Saving the log to a disk after each test
- Sending a notification e-mail on timeouts
- Creating preconditions and postconditions for tests
- Index
Gennadiy Alpaev has been working as a test automation engineer since he graduated in 2003. During these 10 years he has worked with many automation tools including TestComplete, SilkTest, Selenium, and Squish and participated in more than 10 projects, both as an employee and on contract basis.
He gained his first experience of writing tutorials when he created a tutorial on SilkTest together with his colleague Mykola Kolisnyk. His second big project on test automation was a complete tutorial on TestComplete. These two tutorials are available online in Russian.
Starting in 2011, he is running online and on-site courses on TestComplete and test automation for independent students and companies. He is also actively participating in different forums trying to help others solve problems as fast as possible.
The main principles that he follows in his training are simplicity and brevity, especially when explaining complex things.
First of all I'd like to thank Andrew Grinchak who helped me with the English version of the book. Without him the work would have been much more complicated.
Many thanks to all forum participants for their questions and answers. There are so many of them that it is impossible to mention them all, but without them I would have never got all the experience I have now. Also during these 10 years, I had great pleasure working with different people who influenced my vision and qualification. Thank you all, every communication was helpful and interesting, and introduced its part to this book.
And finally thanks to my family for their patience and support during the process of writing this book.
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