Why is testing with Test-complete better than using Auto-It or Python?

Question

Python

Good afternoon.

My level of test automation is somewhere at the beginner level.

I now have a question about automated regression testing, and subsequently stress testing to check the following:

* Install\Remove MSI packages from products developed by a company where "arbayten";
* Checking the GUI. Approximate operations: select a file, see if a MessageBox has appeared or if an inscription has appeared, etc.;
* Checking Console utilities;

Looking through the information on the Internet, I saw that Test-Complete is very popular in the post-Soviet space, but my colleagues convince me that this does not make sense and Auto-It will be enough, especially since it seems to be free.

A subject question arises: And what exactly is the use of Test-Complete better than using Auto-It or Python?

Answer 1

First , Test-Complete is an expensive product.
1) supports cross-browser web testing (including html5).
2) supports distributed testing on multiple computers.
3) Supports performance testing.
4) supports cross-language integration without being tied to some kind of scripting language, which is convenient for system administrators to write, but not for development professionals.
In general, read on their official website - there is a lot of interesting things.
Auto-It is a tool for testing windows applications, which, in my opinion, has practically lost its relevance with the development of Microsoft Automation Framework .
Only lovers of this particular product work with him, who sell precisely this knowledge of theirs.
Hit the tools. They don't do much here. The real questions are: how to make tests pay off, how to make them not require changes when the product changes, how to integrate them into the workflow.
Here they have to be solved. And there is no complete theory here - there is only an army of amateurs - who believe that they can do something.
So just do it and not study the tools - and everything will come with experience.

Answer 2

Didn't work with TC, only with AutoIT and python+webdriver.
AutoIT was more than enough for me to perform simple actions.
python automated only the web - conveniently.
TC can be useful to you only for 2 points, 1 and 3 are solved by python or generally by the built-in tools of Windows.
The GUI is a web interface, then it’s better to take a python + webdriver
if it’s a desktop, then either AutoIT or TC - TC will be more convenient only because there are good tools for writing scripts, you will have to write everything in AutoIT purely by hand.