TechValidate Research on Ranorex


Ranorex Case Study

Small Business Insurance Company

Introduction

This case study of a small business insurance 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.

“Simple scripting, SQL data sources, conditions, and identification with automation IDs are just a few ways we use it. Our software is very complex and we have a few different variations of it. Test automation is not possible without the functions mentioned.”

“Best of all, it’s flexible and offers many possibilities to write tests, a repository for all objects used, etc. And they have good support.”

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: average challenges
    • UI object recognition and automation: major challenges
    • Meeting the release schedule or deadline: average challenges
    • Unacceptable amount of bugs in production: minor challenges
    • Getting feedback from testing: minor 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:
    • Relationship and communication with the Account Manager and Sales Engineer
    • 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:
    • Desktop – C#
    • Desktop – WPF
  • The percentage balance between automated and manual testing: 40% automated, 60% manual
  • The types of tests that are their priority for automation:
    • Functional UI
    • 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: slightly agree
    • Shortened test cycles: strongly agree
    • Decreased number of manual test runs: agree
    • Improved application quality and fewer defects: agree
    • Increased revenue: slightly agree
    • Allowed for involvement by non-technical team members: slightly disagree
    • Led to more robust and reliable automation: agree
    • 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: significantly better
    • Ease for maintaining object repository: superior
    • No or low code testing with action editor and recorder: significantly better
    • Code editor: superior
    • Cross platform testing: superior
    • Remote testing: significantly better
    • Integrations with test management solutions: better




About This Data

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

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