Winrunner is one of the most famous
load testing tools available today which operate at the level of graphical user
interface. Recording and playing back the user actions has become such an easy
task with the help of this winrunner software package.
Advantages of WinRunner
The Winrunner was
initially a creation of the mercury interactive but later was taken under
the supervision of HP (Hewett Packard).
- With winrunner, the quick creation
of the sophisticated automated tests has been made possible.
- With the aid of
winrunner you have the provision of automating the whole software testing
process right from the test development to the execution part. - The tests that
we develop or create using the winrunner are not only automated but they are
also by far adaptable as well as reusable.
- The test scripts that they
consist prove to be quite challenging to the software system or application
which is under testing.
- The winrunner also provides you with the convenience of
running all the tests you created in an overnight just before the release date
of your software product.
- Such an overnight test run helps you to detect any
last moment defects and also ensures that your software product is of superior
quality.
- Testing with winrunner reduces the following problems dramatically:
- Reduces time
consumption and tediousness.
- Reduces the amount
of investment in human resources.
- Roots out most of
the serious bugs.
- Winrunner is a functional testing
tool that was designed with the aim of solving quite a large number of problems
and it does assists the process of software testing in quite a realistic
manner.
- With winrunner you get an opportunity for testing your software systems
and applications on quite a large scale or we can say company wide scale.
- The
user functions are verified as well as recorded in an automated way which makes
sure the proper and cooperative working of the business processes.
- Another
thing is that in winrunner no programming is required to increase the
flexibility and power of the tests.
- The spund functionality in winrunner is
assured with the help of multiple verification types.
- The integrity of the back
end data base is also verified.
- All the attributes if the application objects
are stored and verified.
- Winrunner is a single application that can test
multiple environments.
- With winrunner, the automatic identification of the
discrepancies present in the data is possible.
Limitations of WinRunner
- Winrunner because of its limitations has now been superseded
by the HP quick test pro.
- The winrunner makes use of the source of the program
to create test cases and moreover the coding of the test cases is done in test
script language (TSL) which is a proprietary language.
- One of the disadvantages
of the TSL is that very few resources are available for TSL programming.
- The
testers need immense training to be able to implement winrunner properly.
- Another
disadvantage is the GUI map, which can be many a time quite difficult to
understand as well as implement.
The winrunner does not extends support for the
following applications:
- Few web based
applications
- NET applications as
well.
- XML
- Multimedia
applications
- Sap apps
- Oracle apps
However many of the above discussed
limitations are present only in the older versions of the winrunner and can be
eliminated by going for the latest version of the winrunner (8.0+) which does
supports all the web applications and .NET add- in is also available in that.
However, the QTP proves to be more
convenient when it comes to writing the scripts and object values.
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