Web Testing With TestComplete

With TestComplete’s point-and-click recorder, recording web tests is as easy as browsing through your web application. TestComplete automatically captures all actions that you perform inside the Internet browser, such as web page loading, link navigation, data retrieval and entry, form submission and other activities. Recorded web tests are object-aware rather than coordinate-based, so they are resistant to changes in the web page layout, screen resolution and many other factors.

In order to cover the countless ways of organizing web page elements, TestComplete provides four different web tree object models that specify how web page elements are addressed during web testing:

• DOM — Mirrors the Document Object Model (DOM).
• Tag — Groups all available web page elements by tag names, providing easier access to elements of the same type (links, images, input controls, and others) during web testing.
• Tree — Reflects the parent-child hierarchy of the web page elements, providing easier access to nested elements during web testing.
• Hybrid — Combines the DOM and Tree models during web testing.

Choosing a suitable web tree model increases your web testing performance and reliability.

Built-in checkpoints help you thoroughly verify your web application during web testing. For example, you can verify that that your web site conforms to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. With web testing checkpoints, you can:

• Verify the entire web page contents, only its tag structure or only the contents of certain elements.
• Verify the contents and state of individual web page elements.
• Verify that all links on the web page are valid.
• Verify that all images on the web page have alternative text specified.
• Verify that the page contains MAILTO links.
• Check whether the page contains Java applets.
• And much more!

TestComplete supports various browsers for web testing, so that you can ensure your web application functions correctly in all of them. The supported browsers are:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer ver. 5—8.
• Mozilla Firefox ver. 1.5—3.0.
• Any application with an embedded Microsoft WebBrowser control.
• Netscape Navigator ver. 8.1.2 (using the Internet Explorer rendering engine).

TestComplete can not only simulate clicks and key presses in your Internet browser, it also gives your web testing access to internal properties, methods and events of the tested web page’s elements, which allows you to perform custom web page verifications or implement advanced web testing techniques.

You can perform data-driven testing of web applications by retrieving test data for input screens from external data sources, like, Excel spreadsheets, databases, CSV files and others, thus, driving multiple data entry iterations at one time.

When web testing, TestComplete lets you call scripts from web pages directly. For example, run a script attached to a button’s onclick event without actually clicking that button. This helps you create stable web tests during the earliest stages of your web application development, when the application’s UI implementation is likely to change, as well as to perform unit testing of your web applications.