Ranorex Blog

If software is configurable, it often means that the software relies on dynamic content – dynamic content is typically based on dynamic identifiers (IDs). Using dynamic IDs often leads to problems in test automation because they are newly generated each and every time an element is displayed. This blog post will illustrate how easy it is with Ranorex to overcome this frequent problem in test automation in an automated way.

• What is the Problem?
• Identify Dynamic Content
• Add a Weight Rule
• Add a Condition to the Weight Rule
• Conclusion

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This blog post will discuss the possibilities to share your automatically generated Ranorex Reports over your local network or via email. There is no need to have Ranorex installed on the machine you will open the shared report. This is possible because the Ranorex Report format is based on XSL, XML and HTML.

Performing the following very simple adaptions, you will be able to open the report file using any common browser.
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This blog post illustrates how to automate testing of cross-platform apps implemented with MonoTouch for iOS and Mono for Android with Ranorex.

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The common method for developing software has been shifting more and more from classical development models to more agile software development. In response to numerous inquiries from Ranorex customers, we have decided to write another Ranorex integration blog. This blog post will illustrate the integration of Ranorex Automation into a Bamboo Continuous Integration Process.

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Recently, the more commonly used method for developing software has been shifting from traditional models like the waterfall or the v model to a more iterative model: the agile software development.

Agile development processes are implemented using continuous integration tools. To keep individual iterations speedy, it’s absolutely essential to bring automated testing into the continuous integration process… and likewise into the agile development process.

Ranorex can easily be integrated into continuous integration systems as Ranorex Studio creates an executable from of its Test Suite projects that can be triggered by almost any CI system.

This blog post explains how to integrate Ranorex automation into your existing continuous integration process.

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This blog post will discuss how to automate testing in the TeamCity CI environment using Ranorex automation and how to provide feedback for every committed change in your subversion repository.

As already explained in the blog post ‘Integrating Ranorex Automation in Jenkins CI Process’, continuous integration is a software engineering practice in which isolated changes are immediately tested and reported on when they are added to a larger code base.

The goal of CI is to provide rapid feedback so that if a defect is introduced into the code base, it can be identified and corrected as quickly as possible.

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In software engineering, continuous integration means the continuous application of quality control processes — small units of effort, applied frequently.

Hudson and Jenkins are open source tools written in Java for just such continuous integration.

This blog post will describe how to set up a CI job with Hudson/Jenkins that automatically builds and executes your Ranorex automation and automatically sends out the generated test reports for every committed change in a subversion repository.

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With Windows 8 a new tile based user interface, called Windows 8 Style UI (formerly known as Metro-style), will be shipped. This blog post will provide some useful tips and tricks concerning automating Windows 8 Style UI apps using Ranorex.

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HP Quality Center is a web based test management software which supports both manual and automated testing of UI based applications.

Having an existing HP Quality Center infrastructure, it’s easy to integrate your Ranorex automation since HP Quality Center offers so called VAPI-XP-TESTs as an interface to trigger console based applications.

By compiling a Ranorex Test Suite project, a console application will be built which can be triggered by the mentioned VAPI-XP-TESTs. And, as you might know, by specifying command line arguments when running the Test Suite executable, you can control almost everything within a test suite.

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Using Microsoft Team Foundation Server, you can cover your whole ALM process from source control over automated builds to quality assurance. This blog post illustrates how to use the Ranorex test automation framework to implement coded UI tests that execute Ranorex based automation code or even whole Ranorex test suites using Microsoft Test Manager.

• Infrastructure
• Implementing Coded UI Tests to Execute Ranorex Automation
• Conclusion

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