I have used LoadRunner a long time ago for web applications, now i wonder if i can use it for desktop application automation. Is it possible ? Can someone link to any guide or examples?
Thanks in advance.
LoadRunner is a tool for performance testing. Usually you want to test the performance of some server that serves several clients via some form of communication. This can work for both web and desktop (and mobile) applications.
I think what you are looking for is a functional testing tool - a tool that can use the application in an automatic way instead of the user. There is a complementary product called UFT (previously QTP) that does exactly that!
UFT - http://www8.hp.com/us/en/software-solutions/software.html?compURI=1172957#.UUlnERxTDRM
LoadRunner can test web and non web client-server applications for performance. Load all of the sample applications and you will find flight samples for Web, for database, for Winsock, for DCOM, etc... You can look to the VUGEN manuals and find all sorts of non-web based client-server protocols for use by thick client applications.
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I am a new to android application testing.
I need to study the possibility of automating test cases for an android app which runs in background and will talk to a web service in a server. This app will periodically send particular information to the server DB.
I would like implement automation testing here to validate the major functionalities like the communication, events captured, performace data, capturing the crashes etc. Is there any tool which can help me out here?
I am seeing so many automation testing apps for applications with UI. But couldn't get one for apps which dont have any UI.
I am comfortable with vb scripting and perl. Also interested to dig new ways of automation. It would be a great help if someone can suggest some tools. Thanks a lot in advance!
you can checkout for http://appium.io/ android automation tool uses JAVA as language. It would help you to automate.
If I am that stupid to ask this question, please excuse me.
Anyway, I have searched and found out some notes about the tool which I have given below.
SoapUI is a complete and automated testing solution. In a single test
environment, it provides industry-leading technologies and standards
support, from SOAP- and REST-based Web services, to JMS enterprise
messaging layers, databases, Rich Internet Applications, and much
more.
From the above content, whether we can assume that it will be well-suited for web-based automation testing perfectly? It would be good if you could share some relevant info on the same.
Thanks :)-
I would question as to why you want to use soapUI for web UI testing? For web UI testing i would recommend using some other tool like selenium.
As clarified in my comment below, it would seem that you can make soapUI and Selenium work together. See http://learnsoapui.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/selenium-soapui-can-they-work-together/ for details.
I am testing one Desktop based client server application. I want to perform a Security test of that application.
Can anybody explain me which points i can consider while performing Security Test of the Desktop application?
Testing of desktop application is easier than web application as there are less users than web applications.
Followings are two important point that you need to keep in mind during security testing of desktop application
• Test user’s rights and roles-authorized person should allow to login
• Test security of data or information stored in application.
Security testing on Desktop application is not that much easy task, in market we can't find the proper free tools like web application tools
for java based desktop application use JavaSnoop tool and proxy tool
for .Net based desktop application use echo-mirage and proxy tools
the test cases are quite simple
1. System testing: verification of registries, files and logs
2. Static testing: de-compile the files and do code-review, Gendarme tool is perfect
- do memory dump analysis
3. Dynamic testing: verify the communication
i hope this will help you
We have written clients in different programming languages (Java, .NET/Silverlight, Flash, Javascript) that communicate with a server, as our target is to support various technologies on client side. The functionality they are supposed to perform is the same.
One of the main challenges we are having now is finding a simple and effective approach for testing this variety of client technologies against the server. Currently we use maven, hooked with many maven plugins such as JSTestDriver, Flexmojo, NPanday and others which we have developed by our own to do this. Is there any better approach?
Any help would be appreciated, whether it is recommendation for available frameworks/tools or innovative ideas to do this.
Thanks
What you need is a clean design, otherwise everything is a mess and you have to test everything together.
Your server should have an interface with other systems (Browsers, desktop applications, mobile apps) and then test thoroughly this API. You can do that by using the appropriate framework, depending on technology used for the server. This should be your main test effort and then try to keep API stable, so that for every new version of the server you just run a regression test.
Meanwhile you can test the client applications alone by creating a mock server that uses the same API.
Last one would be your integration test where you run a live version of your server and your client application and you run integration tests.
expect is a good framework for testing program-external text interfaces such as client-server interaction. It operates with tests formulated in Tcl on a purely black-box logic level.
What is a better platform/language for developing Windows/desktop based application that can run offline (sometimes)? .NET (C#, ASP) or Java or any other development tool? This application requires to store data into a database(involves some GIS) and later Synch both ways with the main server (SQL/Oracle) during off hours or when initiated by a user or event or when online? ALso the tool/IDE recommended should allow us in the future to migrate this desktop application as a Web based application to the corporate server with less pain or re-work when internet/nw access is available to all of our remote sites/users. Any input/advice is appreciated.
If you are strictly doing Windows desktop application development, C# or VB.NET would be an excellent choice. There is a ton of documentation out there for .NET developers. Although the framework is a free download from Microsoft, any serious work is cumbersome and tedious without the IDE.
If you needed the potential to support your application on multiple operating systems besides Microsoft Windows, then I think it might be worth looking into Java.
For web solutions, in .NET you have ASP.NET, Java you have JSP and Tomcat.
You could try Adobe AIR. It seems like it would serve most of your desktop needs and it should be the easiest to migrate into a web app (Flex).
C#/WPF for desktop with Silverlight, XBAP or even ASP as the online options.
Since you mentioned the desire to web-enable this application at some point I'd look into Silverlight. Out-of-browser capabilities were introduced in Silverlight 3. That means that the app can run directly on the desktop, and the internet connection is optional. However, when the internet connection is available it has built-in support for auto-updating itself.
And now in Silverlight 4 it's possible to run an out-of-browser Silverlight app with elevated trust. Silverlight 4 also finally introduced things like right-click support, clipboard access, full keyboard support in fullscreen mode, etc. So if you're just now starting development, I'd most definitely use version 4.
You'll have to communicate with something like a WCF service for a lot of the database operations. But going with Silverlight should allow you to build something that'll work on the desktop and the web alike without having to manage two systems.
Going web-based after you already developed a desktop application is a really bad idea. There is no reason the desktop application cannot use a internet connection, and be updated from a server.
You could try Delphi. It's a rapid application development tool. Very different, but very quick to use. Well suited to Oracle integration. Data sync is probably going to need to be custom, unless you're using something like Sybase SQL Anywhere.