Item: TestComplete
Rating: 10
Author: Bernhard Rohrbacher

Overall Satisfaction with TestComplete

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The development team and I noticed we spent a lot of time manually testing everything in our product before it went out the door. Specifically, the sanity test that we conduct before we release a new version.

It was decided that we needed to automate this long and costly procedure. So, I spent some time looking for options and TestComplete seemed like the perfect solution.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Keyword test is really easy to use. Anyone can figure it out in a couple of hours.
The support they provide is amazing. Their customer service is top notch and they have a lot of resources for beginners to more advanced users.
More advanced features are provided and come in handy.
TestComplete can easily integrate with your development workflow.

Cons

Beta testing for major releases would be nice. In other words it would be nice to see what our tests will do/ won't do for every release.
A learning feature that is built into the product. Something like what Postman has done recently to their newest version. This would help up newbies as well as more experienced users.

Return on Investment

Saves us time which saves us money. I have cut down the sanity test from hours to minutes which allows me to test other areas of our products.
There was kind of a steep learning curve for more advanced testing procedures which ate up a bit of time.
Creating the tests through TestComplete has allowed us to catch issues in our products that we normally wouldn't test for.

Alternatives Considered

I have briefly used TestExecute but since I am the only tester I have been running all of my tests through TestComplete. I have been keeping an eye on other products that SmartBear provides but for what our organization is doing right now TestComplete is the best solution.

Other Software Used

Postman

Likelihood to Recommend

I would recommend this product to anyone looking to automate multiple applications and/or large scale applications.

I feel like this product wouldn't make a lot of sense for very small applications. However, they could provide testing services geared towards start-ups. If TestComplete made a "lite" version I could see is the product being used for start-ups as well as for smaller organizations.

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