It has been wonderful to spend some time with the AutomatedQA team here in Orlando this week, during the TechED 2008 Developers Conference. Falafel and AQA have build a solid and successful partnership, offering high quality consulting and training worldwide on TestComplete, AQTime and Automated Build studio.

Falafel Software today released its new TestCompleteTV.com web site, a subscription based video library to train on the award winning Automated QA tool, TESTCOMPLETE.  We are all very excited about the site and the possibilities it brings to our loyal customers worldwide.

Subscriptions vary from $39 for 3 months, to $99 for the whole year or $299 for lifetime membership.
Falafel intends to produce between 200 to 250 videos by the end of 2008.
We encourage all members in the community to send us their feedback and their wish list on what videos we should produce first.

Santa Cruz, CA March 16th 2008 — Falafel Software Inc, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner providing consulting, training, and software development for enterprise and small business customers, today announced the world wide release of the official training material for AutomatedQA's TestComplete product.

An another FAQ asked question about TestComplete is "Why when I check the Exists property of my [Insert UI element here] do I get an error message in the Test Log?".

A question that comes up fequently about TestComplete is; "How do I call a script routine in another project from the project I am currently working in?"

The dotNet object in TestComplete (requires the .NET Classes Support plug-in) allows you to access .Net objects in your TestComplete script code. For example

I was designing a load test against Active Focus the other day using TestComplete. I kept getting the error "Connection 0 of the task assigned to the virtual user VirtualUser1 was simulated partially. Only 3 of 41 requests were completed." in the test log.

There are many times when looking over the Test Log after an unsuccessful test it would be useful to know the state of the machine at the time of the error. In particular, it would be nice to see a picture of the desktop (or your application under test) at the time of error being posted to the log. Now, if you are doing the error posting from you script, it is easy as one of the parameters for Log.Error allows for posting a picture. But if, TestComplete posts the error it is harder. The best method I have found is to use the OnLogError event of TestComplete and post a message just before the error with the picture.