Plugins for Ranorex - disable temporarily ?

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gilbar16
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Plugins for Ranorex - disable temporarily ?

Post by gilbar16 » Thu Mar 10, 2016 8:00 pm

Hi,

In the Help/About box, I noticed that there are at least 16 Plugins installed from the standard or default installation (not changing any options).

Ranorex performance wise, will it help a lot if we choose the Disable temporarily option (from Right clicking a plugin) to disable plugins that are not related to the application we are testing?

Does "temporarily" mean that the disabled plugin will be enabled again if you restart Ranorex?

I just thought that it will be better if the plugin I disable remains disabled until I choose an option (if available) to enable it again.

Thanks.
Gilbert

krstcs
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Re: Plugins for Ranorex - disable temporarily ?

Post by krstcs » Thu Mar 10, 2016 8:30 pm

You won't see any difference in performance by disabling them, and it can cause Ranorex to misbehave.

They don't get called unless they are in use, so you won't see a performance hit with them on either.

It's been recommended by the Ranorex team to leave them on unless they tell you otherwise (for debugging, etc. with them).
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gilbar16
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Re: Plugins for Ranorex - disable temporarily ?

Post by gilbar16 » Fri Mar 11, 2016 2:04 am

Thanks again krstcs !

I just thought maybe it is similar to QTP/UFT where it recommends to only enable/install plugins that are needed for the AUT.