iMacros has been a trustworthy companion to many professionals in achieving extreme efficiency by automating their day-to-day tasks. It has also helped quality engineers enhance their testing cycles with test automation. For years this product has been
a top-notch utility for web automation.
Following the announcement that iMacros will be officially discontinued, we would like to help our customers with the choice and migration to another tool for RPA tasks or test automation.
Progress is offering a rich portfolio of solutions for businesspeople, developers, QAs, and managers. Telerik Test Studio -
a comprehensive test automation tool for desktop and web applications, is one of the well-established products in it. It features a user-friendly interface and a rich recorder allowing users to create, execute and maintain automated scripts with little
or no coding experience. The ease of use and the excellent technical support make it the preferred tool for many professionals.
Our team of automation professionals is at your disposal if you wish to see a demo of Test Studio or work on a proof-of-concept project. Contact UsPlease let us know in the comment section that you are interested in iMacros migration. Thanks!
iMacros can be used to automatically fill out forms on websites, saving time and reducing the risk of errors. Simply put all data into a file and iMacros will read it from there and submit it to the website - automatically, without user interaction.
The click-and-record functionality in Test Studio is designed to record any user actions in web and desktop applications. Simply launch your webpage with the recorder in a browser of your choice and start building your automated macro or script. All actions will be recorded, including form filling. You can add additional actions, verifications, and a variety of common steps like comments, waits, execution delays, etc.
Test automation is one of the tester’s strongest weapons. With iMacros, you can automate actions against the application under test and validate the results afterward.
Test Studio’s automation capabilities match what iMacro offers and add a lot more. With the fast and easy-to-use test recorder and its patent-pending hybrid element find logic, Test Studio helps anyone on the team, no matter the technical experience, craft stable and reliable tests while keeping test maintenance to a minimum. Here you can browse through the list of Test Studio features.
A key activity in web automation is the extraction of data from websites, also known as web scraping or screen scraping. Whether it is price lists, stock information, financial data, or any other type of data, iMacros can extract it for you and either reuse the data or store it in a file or a database.
Test Studio supports the extraction of any type of data, as well as storing it in a local file, a database, or a variable to be used later in the same macro or test. Binding sets of data to the automated tests is one of the most powerful features in Test Studio allowing you to reuse the same sets of steps with different data. This saves execution time and makes the automated scenario more efficient and easier to maintain.
The iMacros scripts can be run on Chrome and Firefox through extensions. Depending on what browser your applications support you can choose where to execute the macro. This is also useful for compatibility testing of the application rendering based on the browser in use.
Major browsers are proactively supported by Test Studio. The latest browser version support is added within days of its stable release. You can record your macros or tests in Chrome, Firefox, Edge Chromium, or IE and execute them in any of the same set of browsers without additional adjustments.
The powerful image validation support in iMacros
(sometimes also called visual search or pattern recognition) uses images to find
and validate elements on the webpage. This is useful for web applications where
elements cannot be easily or at all accessed through the application’s object
tree.
Test Studio boosts test and macro reliability through a combination of mechanisms for visual element detection. One of them is image search. Images can be used to find elements on the web page similar to what iMacros can do. On top of that, you can verify the whole image, extract and validate parts of it, or extract data content through the powerful OCR (optical character recognition) capabilities.
iMacros provides a no-code macro recorder for simpler tasks and a scripting interface for more complex scenarios. You can control iMacros with any Windows programming language that supports the use of COM objects, like Visual Basic .NET, C#, and others.
Test Studio is well-recognized for its test recorder and seamless no-code approach to web and desktop automation. However, the most efficient approach is when you combine the best of both worlds. Test Studio’s embedded code editor allows you to add coded steps and meet complex automation challenges when the situation requires it. You can code in VB.NET and C#, add standalone coded helper files, include third-party libraries in the project, and even convert already recorded automation steps into coded ones. You get great extensibility and flexibility at the tips of your fingers.
A crucial part of using iMacros is executing the scripts. This is done through the iMacros Player. It allows you to distribute macros, scripts, and programs based on iMacros along with a copy of iMacros itself to any user who only requires playback capability.
Test Studio’s Run-time Edition is a lightweight runner that is designed for distributed automation execution without the need for the full Test Studio product. It can be used to run tests on its own, to be integrated with third-party continuous delivery solutions, or to be part of Test Studio’s in-product scheduling server. The out-of-the-box scheduling functionality allows running concurrent automated tests on multiple remote machines or scheduling scripts to execute remotely at a certain time.
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Test Studio is a perfect complement to our Telerik UI development. It is extremely easy to develop automated testing for the Telerik UI components and it minimize our test maintenance over time.
Telerik Test Studio enables our quality assurance team to quickly identify potential bugs pre-release within the DevOps pipeline. We have been able to scale and accelerate delivery of new features while reducing our manual testing on existing functionality. The features are deep, yet easy to use. The consistent addition of new and improved features helps improve the efficiency of our testing efforts.
Headless execution allows us to greatly reduce the overall time needed to complete a test cycle. This method also allows us to integrate Test Studio into our CI pipeline so we can run any portion of the test plan at the time of merge and/or deployment.
Test Studio is a fantastic platform for anyone who's new to automated testing because it's got a very intuitive UI, but also for somebody who's highly skilled as they can immediately pick up on what Test Studio can do and make very effective use of the tool.
After using the trial for a week we increased our automated testing from 5% to 30%. Test Studio was so easy to incorporate into our existing testing environment! Tests are stable and easy to run and understand.
