Release of Testing Anywhere 7.0 Beta version

[forumstaff]

Automation Anywhere is pleased to announce the release of Testing Anywhere 7.0 Beta version. Beta version is now available for download at following link.
http://www.automationanywhere.com/Te...up700-Beta.exe

Before installing the beta version we recommend you to take the backup of all your Tests from My Documents\Testing Anywhere\Testing Anywhere\My Projects folder, so that you do not lose your Test if result in not favorable.

Your feedback are most welcome regarding Testing Anywhere.

[KMuller]

Hi, the first problem I have that I was hoping would be fixed in this version, is opening About, Open, Save dialogue boxes from a menu.

I use either the SMART controller or Manage Windows Objects to select an option from a menu (an About window, Open, Save etc). I can get the About / Open window to open, but TA never recognises the window has opened, so that line of the test never passes.

The only way I can access About / Open windows is using keyboard actions. See here for an earlier problem:

Problem with Open / Save dialogue boxes

[KMuller]

I'm also having problems using an Image Recognition Checkpoint on an About box.

Once I have the About window open (using keystrokes), I want to use Image Recognition to store a screenshot of the software version number. Everytime I run the test, the image is just a white square, and the test fails.

Image Recognition does work in other windows, but not the ones I am having problems with.

[forumstaff]

Hello KMuller,

We would like to have an online meeting with you for understanding the behavior of the test in a better way. Please share your contact details with us at support@automationanywhere.com and let us know the best suitable time to contact you.

Thanks & Regards

[forumstaff]

The following are the new features of Testing Anywhere 7.0 and the bug fixes.

New Features

1. SMART Recorder:

a) Enhanced SMART Recorder with superior object recognition technology which supports Sliverlight, JAVA AWT and Swing, WPF and .NET controls.
b) Now SMART Recorder command exposes many more properties of the captured object that can be used for setting checkpoints or selecting the search criteria to identify the object.
c) More powerful object search functionality as the object property values used as search criteria is now editable.

2. Enhanced Visual Logs feature with the support for exporting the logs to a PDF file along with run-time and record-time images. The PDF visual log gives a very clear and accurate idea about the test execution and issues with it if any.

3. Added Registry command to automate various registry management tasks. Now a checkpoint can be set on a specific registry value as well.

4. Web Recorder:

a) Now user can choose if the new URL be opened in the existing IE window or not.
b) Added functionality of selecting an item using INDEX. This allows you to play back the controls where control text frequently changes.
c) Enhanced Extract Data functionality with faster data extraction capabilities.
d) Added support to work seamlessly with UAC (User Access Control) of Windows Vista and Windows 7 both 32 and 64 bits.
e) Enhanced Web Recorder that supports firing the OnClick event when the item is selected from the dropdown.
f) Added support for Copy and Paste of columns in Extract Multiple Data command. Now you can get URL and caption of a link much quicker without recapturing the link.
g) Enhanced support for HTTP/HTTPS protocols and security certificates.
h) Improved object support by exposing many more properties of the web object.
i) Added support for Right Click on certain objects that have OnContextMenu actions defined.
j) Now Web Recorder supports multiple monitors with different resolutions.

5. Added support for MS Exchange for the command Send Email in the Create exe.

6. Added functionality of customizing the hotkey for stopping a task via Tools > Options.

7. Enhanced Loop command with support for CSV with more than 20,000 rows.

8. Now the Read from CSV/Text command supports path that is mixture of constant and variables.

9. Improved XML command's functionality to accommodate rather uncommon conventions of default namespace.

10. Added support of Trigger for the password protected tasks.

11. Now Auto Login is supported on XP 64-bit machines as well.

12. Improved Image Recognition command with sophisticated pattern matching logic and increased efficiency. Now, Image Recognition command performs at least 4x faster with large size images.

13. Now double clicking on a shortcut of a task launches the task in the existing Automation Anywhere instance, if found.

14. Added a setting to configure what key to use to stop the test execution (earlier ESC was used for this action). The setting can be found under Tools > Options > Hotkeys.


Bug Fixes

1. Sometimes, list variables did not appear in Message Box or Log to File command. Fixed.

2. In certain cases, the Windows action "Close all open windows" didn't work properly on Windows 7. Fixed.

3. The Find Broken Link command didn't work properly if HREF contains blank value. Fixed.

4. When system variable Date is used in Variable operations with hyphens, e.g. ($Date--test--), '-' is converted into the '\'. Fixed.

5. Rarely, while recording a task using Object Recorder, it was unable to find a window even if it existed. Fixed.

6. Using Manage Web Controls, after selecting "Select Action", if the user decides to change the preference to "Select Item by Text", the "Item to Select" box fails to reappear. Fixed.


Thanks & Regards

[KMuller]

I've found another problem where I am using the SMART Recorder 'Advanced' control (get Name text) to capture a simple HTML text message and assign it to a variable.

TA 7.0 now locks the computer and the CPU shoots to almost 100% at this point, and I have to use the task manager to kill off TA. I've tried using 'Manage Windows Objects' to capture this text but it cannot recognise / capture the text, so I now have no way for this test to run.

I am testing an HTML web page embedded in a .NET app. This test had passed many times before I upgraded to TA 7.0.

[forumstaff]

Hello KMuller,

Thank you for your feedback on Testing Anywhere 7.0 Beta. The final release of Testing Anywhere 7.0 has been announced and as we have carried out various changes in the final release, we want you to carry the same test with it.
We would appreciate your feedback over it.

Thanks & Regards