TechValidate Research on Ranorex


Ranorex Case Study

Medium Enterprise Computer Software Company

Introduction

This case study of a medium enterprise 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.

“We needed some tools for integrations desktop and web application testing. After a lot of research, Ranorex Studio was our choice, and we weren’t disappointed.”

“Quite easy to learn with a lot of possibilities, but some of the specific solutions need way too much workaround.”

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: minor challenges
    • Test reporting: no challenges
    • Staffing: no challenges
    • UI object recognition and automation: no challenges
    • Flaky or unstable tests: no 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:
    • Feature options that meet the needs of their team
    • Compatibility with current and planned organizational tools and solutions
  • The platforms/technologies they test with Ranorex Studio:
    • Web app
    • Desktop – C#
    • Desktop – .NET or VP.NET
    • Desktop – Winforms
  • The percentage balance between automated and manual testing: 60% automated, 40% manual
  • The types of tests that are their priority for automation:
    • Database
    • End-to-end
    • Integration
    • Performance
    • Regression tests
    • Web service/API

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: disagree
    • Shortened test cycles: disagree
    • Decreased number of manual test runs: strongly agree
    • Improved application quality and fewer defects: slightly agree
    • Increased revenue: slightly agree
    • Allowed for involvement by non-technical team members: slightly disagree
    • Led to more robust and reliable automation: slightly disagree
    • Shortened release cycles: slightly agree
  • The rating of Ranorex Studio on the following capabilities compared to other solutions they have used or researched:
    • Objection recognition: superior
    • Ease for maintaining object repository: better
    • No or low code testing with action editor and recorder: superior
    • Code editor: better
    • Cross platform testing: superior
    • Cross browser testing: superior
    • Remote testing: better
    • Integrations with test management solutions: superior




About This Data

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

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