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Topic: tools comparison
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gruby13
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Posts: 3
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 09-06-2001 10:02 AM
    
Hi,
my company wants to purchase a tool for strictly functional testing client-server and web applications (no load or performance planned). Three candidates left: Winrunner, SilkTest and Rational Team. I know Winrunner quite well but my knowledge about two other is limited. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Gruby
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annemarie
unregistered
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posted 09-06-2001 10:46 AM
Hey Gruby...Try searching this forum for the names of the other products, or posting specific questions to the forums specific to the products! This is a common question that almost everyone faces when analyzing their tools.  ------------------
Annemarie "I realize it's an error, but no one is going to try to do that!" From "Top 10 Stupid Comments from Developers"
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Mike Rothchild
Member
Posts: 31
Registered: Aug 2001
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posted 09-06-2001 11:47 AM
Hi gruby...I know you said you know WinRunner pretty well, but you might want to check out some of the spec information on Mercury's site. Also, they have a live rep chat interface that you can use to ask a question regarding comparisons. hope that helps - Mike ------------------
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jgottlieb
Moderator
Posts: 1442
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 09-07-2001 05:06 AM
Gruby, I just went through all those motions with my company regarding those 3 vendors. I'm currently writing my proposal.Send me an email and we'll talk. ------------------
Jordan Gottlieb
Qualitech Solutions, Inc.
jgottlieb@qualitechsolutions.com
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Rayr_UK
Advanced Guru
Posts: 407
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 09-07-2001 06:27 AM
Hi I am currently on the 27th page of a tools comparison between VisualTest, SilkTest, QARun, Winrunner and Robot. Send me an email on ray.robinson@cableinet.co.uk or at my forum email address.------------------
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tmpalaniselvam
Advanced Guru
Posts: 502
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 09-18-2001 07:27 AM
Hi!
I have reasonable exposure in Visual Test not Rational Team. Its syntax like Visual Basic. It is easy to programming. Visual Test can automate Web & Windows Application. But It couldn't automate Java Applications(except java.awt.* package). It is very cheap & effective to test Microsoft products. ------------------
Don't hesitate to initiate!
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Rayr_UK
Advanced Guru
Posts: 407
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 09-18-2001 09:11 AM
At last I have now finished the darn test tool comparison document. Any one who wants it send me an email. The comparison includes code snippets, side by side comparison in 16 sections e.g. language extensibility, support, cost, ease of use, database testing, data functions, etc."Come with me if you want to live" The Terminator, T2
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Terry Horwath
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Posts: 211
Registered: Jul 1999
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posted 09-20-2001 08:05 PM
If you have useful evaluations why don't you just post them here on the BetaSoft bulletin board [if you don't have a website], or include a post with a URL to the document [if you do have a website]?This is what a few of us did when we evaluated WinRunner and SilkTest last year. The betasoft posting we made included a link to the evaluation document at the following URL: http://www.lakefolsom.com/whitepapers/SilkWrFeatures.pdf
-Terry Horwath
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Elfriede Dustin
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Posts: 600
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-21-2001 10:26 AM
quote:
Originally posted by gruby13:
Hi,
my company wants to purchase a tool for strictly functional testing client-server and web applications (no load or performance planned). Three candidates left: Winrunner, SilkTest and Rational Team. I know Winrunner quite well but my knowledge about two other is limited. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Gruby
The book "Quality Web Systems" contains a matrix (in an Appendix) which compares the tools you've listed, plus others. Elfriede ------------------
Elfriede Dustin
Author (with Rashka, Paul)of book "Automated Software Testing", July ‘99
Author (with Rashka, McDiarmid) of book "Quality Web Systems: Performance, Security & Usability", August ‘01
www.autotestco.com
www.qualitywebsys.com
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Rayr_UK
Advanced Guru
Posts: 407
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 09-22-2001 02:46 AM
The comparison is more than 50k but its available by download from stickyminds.com. I have recently added a market share break down (99).------------------
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Elfriede Dustin
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Posts: 600
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-22-2001 06:58 AM
quote:
Originally posted by Rayr_UK:
The comparison is more than 50k but its available by download from stickyminds.com. I have recently added a market share break down (99).
Which comparison are you referring to? Can you be more specific (i.e. provide a link or name/title?).
Thanks,
Elfriede
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Rayr_UK
Advanced Guru
Posts: 407
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 09-24-2001 04:14 AM
I've posted it to AJ it's a document that compares SilkTest, WinRunner, QARun, Rational Robot and Visual Test including code snippets. Also it is available on stickyminds.com in the test automation section but without the tools market piechart.------------------
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szidi
Member
Posts: 24
Registered: Sep 2001
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posted 09-27-2001 12:22 AM
hi gruby
i want to know if you get some answers for your question? (I mean if you make a decision for one product )
I have a same "problem " to choose betwen Rational TeamTest and another.
Sorry for my english
thank you------------------
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suswaram radha
Member
Posts: 29
Registered: Jun 2001
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posted 09-27-2001 02:33 PM
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Win Runner TSL excels over the other two. It offers many functions for your testing efforts. For example, some verification functions are of single line.
In Robot, you have to use a sqagetproperty function and write a control flow on top of it for verification. In silk also, the same way. More over TSL is user friendly.Compilation speed:
Silk tops. Next Robot and WR is the slowest
Web Support: Silk excels over the other two with a base state support and application state.WR is okay but you have to write couple of functions. Robot sucks. Data driven test: WR has a wizard. Silk, you have to get a third party tool to integrate or otherwise you have to write an extensive code. Robot is like silk in this but the code could be easier like VB. Exception Handlers: None can reach WR with its function generator etc., Silk and Robot lags behind. Objects recognition and their repository:
Win Runner GUI map is user friendly and at the same time not easy to maintain for MDI sheets when same objects are repeated.
Silk INC files are robust and never allow compiling if duplication is enforced in GUI objects.
Robot has no support for GUI map.
GUI map maintenance is very important when the objects are getting changed frequently between regressions.
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Suswaram Radha
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Rayr_UK
Advanced Guru
Posts: 407
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 09-28-2001 05:51 AM
There are a few things I don't agree with here, but to see what I think go to www.stickyminds.com click the test automation link on the left hand side then select the "automation test tools comparison" document. There is one obvious mistake in the matrix part of this document SilkTest's score is 27 not 24.------------------
[This message has been edited by Rayr_UK (edited 09-28-2001).]
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