TechValidate Research on Ranorex


Ranorex Case Study

Small Business Computer Software Company

Introduction

This case study of a small business computer software company is based on a November 2022 survey of Ranorex customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“For me again it comes back to being able to use .NET / c# to adjust tests and base classes to work with multiple UIs.”

“Ranorex uses .NET back-end so it makes sense as that is what I used for development.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Ranorex:

  • Before using Ranorex, the challenges they had in testing their application:
    • Test coverage: no challenges
    • Test reporting: no challenges
    • Staffing: no challenges
    • UI object recognition and automation: minor challenges
    • Flaky or unstable tests: minor challenges
    • Meeting the release schedule or deadline: no challenges
    • Unacceptable amount of bugs in production: no challenges
    • Getting feedback from testing: no challenges

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Ranorex that the surveyed company uses:

  • The most valuable aspects of Ranorex Studio in their decision to choose Ranorex over other vendors they evaluated:
    • Compatibility with current and planned organizational tools and solutions
  • The platforms/technologies they test with Ranorex Studio:
    • Desktop – C#
    • Desktop – WPF
  • The percentage balance between automated and manual testing: 75%+ automated, remaining manual
  • The types of tests that are their priority for automation:
    • End-to-end
    • Functional UI
    • Integration
    • Regression tests

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Ranorex:

  • The level of agreement of how using Ranorex Studio for test automation impacted their company:
    • Increased testing productivity and efficiency: agree
    • Shortened test cycles: agree
    • Decreased number of manual test runs: agree
    • Improved application quality and fewer defects: agree
    • Led to more robust and reliable automation: agree
    • Shortened release cycles: agree
  • The rating of Ranorex Studio on the following capabilities compared to other solutions they have used or researched:
    • Objection recognition: better
    • Ease for maintaining object repository: significantly better
    • Code editor: significantly better




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of Ranorex by TechValidate.

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