Need Spy Tool with Runtime licence

[Pixi6s]

Any suggestions on what I should do? I need the Spy Tool but only have a Runtime licence on that machine.

On my development machine everything works, but on my runtime it doesn't. I am opening a PDF document and I just want to verify that a document opened (vrs a page not found) so very minimal checking. I have already ensured I have the same version of adobe reader installed and the same reader settings on both machines to the best of my ability.

I really want the spy tool to just see what Ranorex is seeing on that machine but it is not available to me. I am running out of debug options otherwise.

Any suggestions? I alternative tool maybe. Or can Ranorex help me out by giving me access to the spy even for a short time (i have already signed up for 2 trials via the web site in the past).

Thank you!

[Pixi6s]

Wow I think I actually got this working. So no longer priority but I am sure it will come up again so suggestions are still encouraged. Would have been nice to figure this out in a few hours instead of days.

[Ciege]

You got it working? Spy shouldnt work as a part of the runtime license... I wish it would...

You could use the following code to output information from a test script to see what Ranorex sees on a runtime machine:

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Ranorex.Core.ElementSnapshot snap = Ranorex.Core.ElementSnapshot.Capture(element, true);   
System.IO.File.WriteAllText("fileName.rxsnp", snap.SerializeXml());  

[Support Team]

Wow I think I actually got this working.

You are able to start Ranorex Spy on a runtime machine? How did you managed that?

As ciege already suggested you can create a Ranorex Snapshot in your code. We have also an Automation Module for this. Therefore please take a look to following link http://www.ranorex.com/forum/create-sna ... t2447.html

Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Team

[Pixi6s]

No I didn't, it told me I needed a licence. I got my code working, My trial and error finally worked!

Thanks for the code snippit!

[artur_gadomski]

I'm also missing Spy on a runtime licence. it actually wouldn't even need to be a full Spy just a 'debug' version that only allows spying, so that I could verify the paths.

[Support Team]

Hi,

I'm also missing Spy on a runtime licence.

We have noticed that the Spy is sometimes needed at test machines and we will discuss the need of the Spy for runtime licenses.

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

[Ciege]

We have noticed that the Spy is sometimes needed at test machines and we will discuss the need of the Spy for runtime licenses.

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

This has my vote!

[lyn5000]

I agree also that Spy on runtime machines would make debugging much easier.

[Support Team]

Hi,

For such cases we recommend to use one Ranorex Professional floating license, this will enable you to use the Spy on every runtime machine in your company, not at the same time but on demand.

Regards,
Markus
Ranorex Support Team

[Ciege]

That' s assuming we have floating licenses... In my case we do not, actually our initial license purchases were made before floating licenses were even available.

I also think it's kind of a let down from you guys to want to upsell to a (much) more expensive floating license just in the case of us wanting to use Spy to assist with our debugging when running our code on a different environment that the development is done on.

[sdaly]

Surely if Spy was allowed with a Runtime licence, this would essentially make the Professional license obsolete and they would be loosing out on money?! Why would you buy a Professional license when you could just buy the cheaper Runtime!...Don't think that's going to happen!

Although we do use floating Professional licenses, I never actually find myself using spy on our test machines. Instead I have a custom logger (implementing iReportLogger) which takes an element snapshot, compresses and then emails when failures occur which I then analyze in Spy on my host machine. The paths to take snapshots of are stored in some test run settings. Might be an alternative for others not wanting to purchase a floating Professional licence.

[Ciege]

I don't agree... We use professional licenses here to do our development. I assume that you can't compile in VS with a runtime license as you can with the professional license.

Having access to Spy does not (or should not) also give the ability to write your automation code. That should be a function of the Ranorex DLLs and not a function of being able to use a tool such as spy. IMNSHO...

[sdaly]

Why couldn't you compile - there is no license checking done at compile time when using VS or SharpDev? Not that I am aware of anyway! From what I can see, the licensing kicks in the first time you make a call to any functions in the Ranorex DLLs.