Comments on: RIATest 3 – Professional Flex Test Automation

By: ymwang

ymwang — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 08:49:23 +0000

when I set project like this，loading type : In browser, using remote loader，
Application XML File：…\test-app.xml.
when i launching the application , I cannot find RiaTestLoader buttons at right, bottom corner: Record, Inspect and Verify.

By: titi

titi — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:39:50 +0000

not quite sure what to believe about the article (and in general about the site – just stumbled upon it): I was conducting an evaluation & selection for a Flex automation tool last year and in the end I did chose RIATest – it looked the most appropriate to what we needed.

Worked with the 3.5 version for some weeks and this is what I got:
- software was pretty buggy, I mean the break command had no effect (in certain conditions) in the switch command context; and this was not the only problem
- documentation was quite poor and although support & forum were quite active and fast, I had to pull any piece of information out of them
- recorded tests had to be tweaked once in a while to get some flexibility or to get the tests doing the right thing in the first place

Overall I’m not sure I would choose it again – btw: reevaluating tools at the moment

By: Osaka

Osaka — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:30:23 +0000

If you already using QTP for automation, then no need to go for RIATest, we can achieve same thing using QTP-Flex plug in. That saves training cost of new scripting language and tool licensing. We have evaluated 3 tools QTP, IBM FT and RIAtest, we are using QTP and IBM FT for a longtime, plug for Flex automation for QTP and IBM FT is working fine, so we didn’t prefer RIATest another new tool for same purpose .

By: Michael Johnson

Michael Johnson — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:15:38 +0000

We had a short window in which to find an automation tool that would help us automate our Flex/AIR client application. Thinking that QTP was the best on the market I first pursued that tool but we were unable to get it working. At the same time my team was evaluating QTP I found RIATest; I downloaded it and had my dev compile the RIATest liabraries into the app and the tool worked great. We since dropped looking at QTP and we’re now a couple of month’s into the development cycle and RIATest is working better than expected. One of my testers has a coding background and with the ease of use of the RIATest language was able to excell really fast in coding of the application. Right now the only thing holding us back is the development of the applicatoin.

Bottom line: If you are working with a Flex/AIR application don’t even bother looking at other tools – the cost of the tool is nominal compared to the other tools and the language is easy to pick up. My team has completed a range of boundary and acceptance testing using the tool and we’ve only scratched the service of what we plan to accomplish.

As side note: We also looked at Flex Monkey but it required an experienced ‘Action Script’ developer to code it.

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By: SMiGL

SMiGL — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:27:15 +0000

Thanks. This is what I was looking for