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October 06, 2006
Flex 2 and Automation - My Max Talk
Max 2006, the Adobe Conference, starts in a little over two weeks and I've been putting the finishing touches to my talk.
This year, I'll be talking on Flex 2 and Automation.
Some of you may be asking what Automation is. Without pre-empting my talk, automation is the automatic control of software, be that building, running or testing.
A large part of my talk will center around automation and testing. In particular, I'll talk about and show a demonostration of Mercury Quick Test Professional being used to control a Flex application, as a means to functional testing.
I am seriously impressed with what the Flex product team has done in their efforts to make Flex applications testable in this manner and I'd urge enterprise development teams to consider its use.
If you haven't already signed up to go to Max, you'd better hurry up. Did I mention that it's in Las Vegas - what better excuse do you need? Who knows, you might even bump into Elvis...
Posted by amcleod at October 6, 2006 03:42 PM
Comments
What with the current ad campain for Vegas ('what you do in Vegas stays in Vegas') I didn't even consider talking to my wife about my attending. I, for one, wish they had chosen another location.
Posted by: Mark Fuqua at October 6, 2006 06:57 PM
Sounds good. Hope I can make it.
Posted by: Chris Charlton at October 10, 2006 02:43 AM
Do you know of any documentation or samples on-line for using QuickTest Pro with Flex? I'm evaluating QuickTest Pro for use on a Flex project, but I can't find any Flex specific documentation. I ran a couple test and it tracks Flex as an activex control with click points and such, but I'm assuming there is a deeper level of integration than that.
Posted by: Kelly Brown at October 12, 2006 07:59 PM
In your slides from MAX you mentioned that the Mercury Quick Test Pro plugin for Flex is available in beta. I have looked everywhere for this and haven't been able to find it. Is there a way I can get my hands on it so we can use it for a project I am working on?
Posted by: Joel at November 28, 2006 08:43 PM
I've been trying to get Quicktest to work with flex for the last few days.
I believe I've found the plugins but I can't figure out how to install them.
Quicktest sees a FlashActiveX plugin but it doesn't see the actions taken in flex. It only sees the flex properties if I set a checkpoint.
Any help would be appreciated; I can't get Quicktest to do anything.
Posted by: Nathan Weber at December 4, 2006 11:05 PM
I am also interested in the Quick Test add ins for automated testing with flex apps. Where can I get them? The Adobe sales/support operators know absolutely nothing about them and have sent me round the houses in my quest for info. It appears the add in is only available as part of the data services package which is way outwith my requirements and budget.
Any help would be much appreciated
Posted by: Lachie Knox at January 23, 2007 05:05 PM
Hi McLeod!
Do you have any idea if will be possible to work with Flex AT and Rational Functional Tester? And when?
I´m a Rational Functional Tester user and I´d like to know if will be possible to work with Rational and Flex AT together.
I had ask the same question to IBM, but they still haven´t answer me.
In the presentation you said that will be release something like custom adapters. How much future?
Thanks in advance,
Arian
Posted by: Arian at March 13, 2007 06:14 PM
I have installed the QTP 14day trial and the neccesarry plugin.
Problem is the plug-in sometimes work and sometimes not.
When I start our flex App I get the following error:
"Adobe Flex 2 Plug-in for Mercury Quick Test Pro could not find the Flash Player within the HTML page.
This can occur when the value of the OBJECT tag's id attribute is missing or contains a period or dash."
When this happens no flex automation works from QTP.
Now I dont believe the advice given by the pug-in error is correct, because sometimes it works fine and other times not on our flex App(same build, no changes inbetween)
Anyone out there that can help me?
Posted by: firestorm at April 18, 2007 01:19 PM
I 'm Rational user .RFT does support for Flex control.there are 66 Flex controls and right now around 8 already supported by RFT.Please try with RFT 7.0.0.2 it can support.IBM develop on demands if any Flex contorol specific.
Posted by: sarang at September 10, 2007 03:54 PM
Hi,
Is there a plan to flex provide some framework like HTTPUnit or JWebUnit beyond the QTP libraries in order to develop functional tests?
Posted by: Filipe at September 17, 2007 08:12 PM
Hi
Our application built on flex 2 and we r planning to use QTP Pro for automating the testing ,my question is Can i get trial version of QTP (demo version) with flex plug ins. if yes can u guide me to get it ?
Posted by: Sujith J Salyan at November 21, 2007 11:13 AM