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Question by pal saab
Submitted on 10/20/2003
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What is difference between win runner and rational robot.


Answer by shihan
Submitted on 11/9/2003
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what is the difference between RR and winnrunner,Loadrunner and Quick test Pro?

 

Answer by krishna
Submitted on 12/1/2003
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winrunner is for functional testing load runner for performence testing

 

Answer by sasi
Submitted on 12/17/2003
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rational robot deals with functional,regression and performance testing whereas loadrunner is only performance testing and winrunner is for functional and regression testing

 

Answer by narayana
Submitted on 2/10/2004
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winrunner is only for black box testing.
load runner is only performance(load testing)to measure the response and throughput rates for systems.

 

Answer by Hanifa
Submitted on 2/19/2004
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Win Runner Supports GUI Testing Only and Rational Robot Supports both GUI and CUI.
GUI - Graphical User Interface
CUI - Character User Interface.

 

Answer by raghu
Submitted on 3/3/2004
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ok nice

 

Answer by dhana
Submitted on 3/17/2004
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rational robot supports only functional and performance testing load runner is used for testing the web applications


 

Answer by MohanRajR
Submitted on 4/14/2004
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How to create a Database Check point and what is the use? how to link WinRunner with oracle

 

Answer by suresh
Submitted on 4/24/2004
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Winrunner is used for testing GUI applications on windows OS mostly.Rational robot can be used for any application irrespective of OS.In addition Rational Robot is Project management tool.While for Winrunner we need Test director to prepare test plan,manage test scripts and track defects.

 

Answer by suresh
Submitted on 4/24/2004
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Winrunner is used for testing GUI applications on windows OS mostly.Rational robot can be used for any application irrespective of OS.In addition Rational Robot is Project management tool.While for Winrunner we need Test director to prepare test plan,manage test scripts and track defects.

 

Answer by smrati
Submitted on 5/5/2004
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winrunner is a functional testing tool where as rational robort can be used for both functional and performance testing.In rational we can record GUI script for functional testing and VU script for performance Testing.winrunner

 

Answer by Jai Sanakr
Submitted on 5/12/2004
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Winrunner is only for functional testing in windows platform, while loadrunner is for both testing (functional and performance) in any platform.

 

Answer by Binay Kumar
Submitted on 6/1/2004
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1>Win Runner is for Regression and Functional Testing but Rational Robot supports Functional ,Regression and Performance Testing.
2>Win Runner easy to install but Rational Adminstrator should be required.
3>Script maintenace is easy at Win Runner but Script maintenance by Central Datastore in Rational
4>Win Runner supprts above 30 Language like SAP, Oracle Finanacal ,Siebel etc. but rational does not suport .
5>Win Runner supports IBP, HP ,Helwett etc but Rational doesnot support.
6>Win Runner supprts both Netscafe and Internet Explorer but Rational does not support Netscafe 6.0

 

Answer by Saravanakumaran
Submitted on 6/8/2004
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Winrunner which is a product of mercury interactive is basically a functional and regression testing tool, but also can be used for performance testing by appropriate scripting.

Rational Robot which is a product of IBM-Rational comes with the complete software development suite and used for functional, Regression and Performance testing. The script generated by the tool is not more clear to understand

 

Answer by kiran
Submitted on 6/24/2004
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Win runner is only for functional testing and regression testing. where as rational is used for functional, regression and performance testing.
Rational is used for complete SDLC. where as Win runner is not used for complete SDLC and it supports only black box testing  

 

Answer by Adiseshu
Submitted on 7/5/2004
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Hi Binay Kumar

U have explained the differences very well. I got very good idea about those now.

Thanx alot

Adiseshu

 

Answer by varma
Submitted on 7/7/2004
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what is the diff between winrunner and QTP?

 

Answer by JerkOff
Submitted on 7/14/2004
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Yer all a bunch of Jerks

 

Answer by Deepika
Submitted on 8/17/2004
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Winrunner is basically a tool which can be used by Testers. It uses TSL language for scripting. Through Winrunner we can perform Functional and Regression Testing.

QTP is a tool which is specially designed for Business Analysts (Domain Experts). This is a sophisticated tool wherein the knowledge of TSL is not required and the test scripts are written using simple english language. Then the script written in English language is converted into TSL by the tool. This tool basically is User Friendly tool.


 

Answer by prasoon prakash
Submitted on 9/21/2004
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Rational robo singly sufficient to test any application in terms of functionality and performance.

Win runner is not singly sufficient to test application it's limit to only functionality.

 

Answer by Ajay
Submitted on 9/30/2004
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Winrunner doesn't support all the environments such as .net , where as QTP supports such things. And it is difficult to write scripting in winrunner since it uses C language, where as QTP scripting is easy since it uses VBScript.

 

Answer by haha
Submitted on 10/30/2004
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1>Win Runner is for Regression and Functional Testing but Rational Robot supports Functional ,Regression and Performance Testing.
2>Win Runner easy to install but Rational Adminstrator should be required.
3>Script maintenace is easy at Win Runner but Script maintenance by Central Datastore in Rational
4>Win Runner supprts above 30 Language like SAP, Oracle Finanacal ,Siebel etc. but rational does not suport .
5>Win Runner supports IBP, HP ,Helwett etc but Rational doesnot support.
6>Win Runner supprts both Netscafe and Internet Explorer but Rational does not support Netscafe 6.0

 

Answer by Ramandeep Singh
Submitted on 11/2/2004
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WinRunner is a Mercury product built in VC++, thus the GUIScript in this application ie the TSL is a subset of VC++ which is very easy to understand.

Rational SQA robot is built in VB thus the GUI Script in this case is a subset ob VB.
Rational Robot is prefered over WinRunner for testing of VB gui applications

 

Answer by rathu
Submitted on 11/18/2004
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hi venki
          How r u?

 

Answer by praveen arya
Submitted on 12/12/2004
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Win runner is only for functional testing and regression testing. where as rational is used for functional, regression and performance testing.
Rational is used for complete SDLC. where as Win runner is not used for complete SDLC and it supports only black box testing  
Winrunner which is a product of mercury interactive is basically a functional and regression testing tool, but also can be used for performance testing by appropriate scripting.

Rational Robot which is a product of IBM-Rational comes with the complete software development suite and used for functional, Regression and Performance testing. The script generated by the tool is not more clear to understand

 

Answer by lingaraj
Submitted on 12/16/2004
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What language is used in load runner?

 

Answer by Mool Shankar Mishra
Submitted on 12/22/2004
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WinRunner for regression and functional testing and Loadrunner use for Performance testing and both have GUI testing.

 

Answer by chitra
Submitted on 1/2/2005
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how to create test datastore

 

Answer by Hemanshu
Submitted on 1/19/2005
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Win Runner is Mercury tool whereas Rational Robot is IBM tool.
Win Runner can work for Regression and Functional Testing whereas Rational Robot supports Functional ,Regression and Performance Testing.


 

Answer by sameer
Submitted on 1/19/2005
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winrunner and QTP both are used for functional testing and regression testing.QTP is more advanced than winrunner with Keyword driven testing techniques and is more user friendly and requires less learning curve.

 

Answer by sangi
Submitted on 3/4/2005
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winrunner can be connected to oracle using open database connectivity ( ODBC).inorder to create a database check point , go to create and then insert a db check point.

 

Answer by bhuvam
Submitted on 5/27/2005
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Winrunner can't be used to test the .net applications. But Rational Robot can be used to test the .net based application

 

Answer by sujatha
Submitted on 6/28/2005
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The WinRunner interface forces the user to look directly at TSL code.  TSL is the WinRunner programming language developed by Mercury.  It is based on the “C” programming language and therefore looks very similar.  For testers who do not have a technical background, they are not always comfortable with having to always look at code.  However QuickTest Pro offers a “Tree View” which is an icon-based view of the script.  This is very easy to get used to and non-technical people adapt to it quicker and feel more comfortable working with it.  For the technical user, they can always switch over to the “Expert View” in QuickTest and look directly at code, and program away using VBScript.

 

Answer by laxmikant
Submitted on 6/30/2005
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Whats difference between JUnit,Rational, SilkTest,QTP tools all for used also for Unit testing

 

Answer by Vivekanand
Submitted on 7/22/2005
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Winrunner is used for Functional testing of any Application, it also used for testing complete GUI of an Software.
Rational Robot allows to do Functional testing, Performance testing and testing of All Web based Application.

 

Answer by ram
Submitted on 8/18/2005
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winrunner is a also a automated tool for the testing the regression testing

 

Answer by suraj(dadya)
Submitted on 9/2/2005
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winrunner:- 1) used for only functional testing
2) wr recognize gui objects by its logical name and physical properties which are at gui map file
3) does not support for linux
4)does not support for netscape 7

rational robot:- 1) used for functional as well as load testing ie both functionality together
2) rr recognize gui objects in the script only
3) support for linux
4)support for netscape

 

Answer by BABYBOYS
Submitted on 9/3/2005
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it is  not correct.why u go for Netscape and IE ?
itisle is a language.pls verify ur answer
Win Runner supprts abpls 30 Langurge like SAP, Oracle Finanacal ,Siebel etc. but rational does not suport .
5>Win Runnesupprtsrts IBP, HP ,Helwett etc but RationaFinanacal sSiebel.
suport6>Win Runner supprts bIBP NetscHelwett Internet Explorerdoesnottional does not support Netscafe 6.0

supprtsNetscafeNetscafe

 

Answer by SRINIVASA
Submitted on 9/9/2005
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VERY CHILLY QUESTION!

WINRUNNER IS FAVOURABLE FOR FUNCTION & REGRESSION, BUT WHERE AS THE RATIONAL DOES ONE MORE OPERATION EXTRA (i.e) PERFORMANCE TESTING.

REGARDS.,
SRINIVAS, BANGALORE

 

Answer by SRINIVASA
Submitted on 9/9/2005
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VERY CHILLY QUESTION!

WINRUNNER IS FAVOURABLE FOR FUNCTION & REGRESSION, BUT WHERE AS THE RATIONAL DOES ONE MORE OPERATION EXTRA (i.e) PERFORMANCE TESTING.

REGARDS.,
SRINIVAS, BANGALORE

 

Answer by tusker1515
Submitted on 10/19/2005
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Rational Robot also provides a well defined extensible mechanism through proxies. More information is avaliable at:
http://www.apppoint.com

 

Answer by Ashok
Submitted on 10/20/2005
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Win Runner is Mercury interactive product and is used for the Functional and Regression Testing.
Rational Robot is the IBM Product and is used for Functional, Regression and Performance Testing of the software product.

 

Answer by Gangaraju Nanduri
Submitted on 11/17/2005
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winrunner is is a functional testing tool where as rational robort is can be used for both functional and performance testing.In rational we can record GUI script for functional testing and VU is script for performance Testing.winrunner is

 

Answer by Swapnil Patil
Submitted on 3/8/2006
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Use Robot to:
1)Perform full functional testing -
Record and play back scripts that navigate through your application and test the state  of objects through verification points.

2)Perform full performance testing -
Use Rational Robot and Rational TestManager together to record and play back sessions that help you determine whether a multiclient system is performing within user-defined standards under varying loads.

3)Create and edit scripts using the SQABasic and VU scripting environments-
The Robot editor provides color-coded commands with keyword Help for powerful integrated programming during script development. (VU scripting is used with sessions in performance testing.)

4) Test applications developed with IDEs such as Visual Studio.NET, Java,
HTML, Visual Basic, Oracle Forms, Delphi, and PowerBuilder. You can test
objects even if they are not visible in the application’s interface.

5) Collect diagnostic information about an application during script playback -
We can play back scripts under a diagnostic tool and see the
results in the log.

 

Answer by kishore
Submitted on 3/17/2006
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winrunner is a functional testing tool and it runs only on windows operating system. WinRunner does not support high profile  operating systems like unix...
Rational robot performs functional testing, loading testing , and performance testing . rational robot can run on any platforms.these are the  advantages of rational robot.

 

Answer by saket saurabh
Submitted on 3/31/2006
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1. winrunner is for functional testing Rational robot is for performence testing.
2. Winrunner is a Mercury Interactive product where in Rational robot is a IBM product.
3. rational robot is not platform constraint wherein winrunner is not.

 

Answer by Divya
Submitted on 4/18/2006
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what is the difference btw winrunner, QTP,Silk test

 

Answer by TestApp
Submitted on 4/25/2006
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Hi Saravanakumaran,

Can you give some idea on how to script in winrunner to do performance testing.

 

Answer by krish
Submitted on 5/10/2006
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how to use database checkpoint? any body can explain briefly?

 

Answer by Bharath
Submitted on 7/17/2006
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The major difference between win run and Rational robot .Win runner Can Check only the funtional application .where as the rational robot can check both the functional and Non functional

 

Answer by Rahul
Submitted on 7/27/2006
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I really apprecite and am greatful for those who have replied is such a fantastic way...

 

Answer by lucky2982
Submitted on 7/31/2006
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what are the short cut keys used in Rational Robot?

 

Answer by Senior Tester
Submitted on 8/28/2006
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Performance and Regression Testing with Rational require both Rational Robot and Rational Test Manager. Rational also has extensions for applications in many environments/packages. It does support SAP, for example.

 

Answer by Lavanya
Submitted on 9/6/2006
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Perform full functional testing. Record and play back scripts that navigate through your application and test the state of objects through verification points.

·   Perform full performance testing. Use Robot and Test Manager together to record and play back scripts that help you determine whether a multi-client system is performing within user-defined standards under varying loads.

·   Create and edit scripts using the BASIC, VB, and VU scripting environments. The Robot editor provides color-coded commands with keyword Help for powerful integrated programming during script development.

·   Test applications developed with IDEs such as Visual Studio.NET, Visual Basic, Oracle Forms, PowerBuilder, HTML, and Java. Test objects even if they are not visible in the application's interface.



 

Answer by Raghvendra
Submitted on 9/7/2006
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Robot automates regression, functional and configuration testing for e-commerce, client/server and ERP applications. It's used to test applications based upon a wide variety of user interface technologies, and is integrated with the IBM Rational® TestManager® solution to provide desktop management support for all testing activities, whereas WinRunner for creating automates scripts for GUI, functional and regression testing of the AUT.

 

Answer by ash_tester
Submitted on 10/13/2006
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Winrunner and QTP are both Mercury Interactive Products. The purpose for both the tools is the same i.e. Functionality and Regression Testing. QTP is more interactive than Winrunner as it released comparatively later.

 

Answer by sandy
Submitted on 11/8/2006
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Rational Robot: It is automated tool of IBM used for Web Client Server Technology.
Win Runner: It is a automated tool of Mercury used for Web Based Application.

 

Answer by hong7917
Submitted on 11/22/2006
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We buy your company¡¯s product Rational Robot. But now we found it don¡¯t support Third part Control for .net like DevExpress.Edit.Combobox.  
We Can Record the action, but it Can¡¯t be RePlayAction. It¡¯ Will Throw The Error information Like Next Line.  

**** script_ Command Failure on line 14 of 'test' ¨C  

I Guess it¡¯s The DotNetSpy can¡¯t get the Control Information. So I Hope I Can modify the DotNetSpy.dll Code.  
Can I Get The dll¡¯s Source Code from you, or get some Support or suggest from you ?  

 

Answer by Alex Anto
Submitted on 12/30/2006
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Win runner is product of Mercury it is ment for Regression and Functional Testing. With a help of Winrunner we can easily learn a GUI and insert check points wherever required. Load runner only ment for middle ware(Performance) testing. Robo is a product of IBM and it is used for both Performance testing and Functional testing.

 

Answer by vthogaru
Submitted on 2/12/2007
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what is the latest version of rational robot

 

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