T-Plan Robot Projects

T-Plan Robot is available in two forms as follows:

• T-Plan Robot Enterprise is a commercial and actively developed product with support and customization services.
  
• T-Plan Robot Open Source is a legacy open source version with limited functionality based on the initial 2.0 release. There is no stable or guaranteed support and little development activities.
  

See the table below for differences and instructions on how to download.

Highlights	T-Plan Robot Enterprise 3.0	T-Plan Robot Enterprise 2.3	T-Plan Robot Open Source
License	T-Plan License	T-Plan License	GPL v2.0 and higher
Price	On request[1]	On request[1]	Free
Downloads	On request[2]	On request[2]	Via SourceForge
Open Source
Unlimited online support via forums, email & phone
Custom builds with bug fixes and features
Features	T-Plan Robot Enterprise 3.0	T-Plan Robot Enterprise 2.3	T-Plan Robot Open Source
Generic black box testing Image based automated testing of any desktop application (read more)
Platform independence Runs on all platforms supported by Java (see environment spec)
Load testing support Parallel testing supported through a multi threaded Java API (read more)
Performance testing support Support of timers and reference performance data (read more)
Windows installer Comfortable Windows managed installation (other platforms supported as a ZIP package)
Mac OS X application format   Release in form of Mac OS X application
Update & Upgrade Comfortable & secure online software update (read more)
Scripting language Easy to understand language for automated test scripts (see the spec)
Java test scripts Support of test scripts written in Java (read more)
Hybrid test scripts Ability to execute Java source code snippets embedded into regular scripts (read more)
Support of Java libraries Ability to instantiate and execute Java test classes from regular scripts (read more)
Support of VNC (RFB) Ability to test over the RFB v3.3 protocol (see supported environments)
Advanced RFB features Support of RFB v3.7 and 3.8 and pseudo cursor encoding
Static image testing Support of static image testing through the Image Client (read more)
Automation of mobile devices Automated testing of mobile devices (see requirements)
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Support of third party OCR engine(s) (Tesseract)
Basic image comparison capabilities Ability to perform image comparison and locate a template image on the screen (read more)
Image collections and meta data Support of named image collections (directories) and image meta data
Optimized image search Improved algorithm delivering up to 55% faster search than the v1.x open source version
Image search with background detection Improved image search able to locate objects on various backgrounds (read more)
Optimization for testing of Flash applications RGB tolerant image search dealing with specific Flash image rendering (read more)
Object search Ability to analyze image scene and locate objects by color or by a color range (read more)
Component Capture User friendly GUI feature allowing to capture a component image and apply a custom action (read more)
Screen shots with image search results Ability to highlight objects located through image search in screen shots (read more)
Text file, CSV and MS Excel I/O Reading from and writing to plain text files, CSVs and MS Excel documents (read more)
HTML reports Reports with test results and screenshots (read more, see a sample report)
Structured test results Support of structured test results consisting of test cases and steps
Test result XML Allows to export results from automated testing to third party applications (read more)
Customizable XML reports Displayable XML reports through a built-in or custom XSL (read more, see a sample XML report)
Result Manager GUI component for comfortable viewing & editing of test results (read more)
Record & Replay Allows to record interaction with an application (desktop) to a test script (read more)
Import from T-Plan Professional 7.0 Create test script templates from T-Plan data (read more)
New Look & Feel (LAF) Plus support of an extra 15 optional LAF schemes
Project Level Organisation Test Scripts, Test Data, Component Images and Test Results. (read more)
Full support of Java Test Scripts Java code is compiled and executed on the fly
Use of a JavaIDE Projects are structure compatible with e.g. Netbeans or Eclipse, for Java development
New 'Java Convertor' Enables easy and reliable conversion of TPR test scripts (*.tpr) into Java. (read more)
Redesigned 'Command Wizard' Allows easy inuitive interactive design of test script commands
Redesigned 'Code Template Wizard' Offers a wide library of code templates both for the TPR and Java formats
New 'Command Properties Window' All test script commands can be easily designed and updated via the new interactive components
Easy Investigation of Script Failures The Execution Log now captures a complete history of the script execution (read more)
Enhanced Script Execution Visualization of the performed mouse and image comparison operations
New 'Image Based Text Recognition' New algorithm recognizes text on the screen based on pre-saved character images (read more)
New 'Enterprise Image Search v2' New algorithm enables Robot to identify components on the screen with a high level of tolerance to minor rendering changes, experienced for example with Flash. (read more)
Export to T-Plan Professional 7.0 Import automated testing results to T-Plan test management database (read more)

^[1] Pricing for individual countries is available on request through our contacts form. Volume discounts apply. One seat is valid for one year and allows to run one connection to a test environment (VNC server or any other supported technology) at a time. See our Licensing FAQs for details.

^[2] To request a web based product presentation or a trial version of T-Plan Robot Enterprise or other T-Plan products use our contacts form.

Advantages of T-Plan Robot Enterprise

Unlike the open source product, T-Plan Robot Enterprise is:

• Backed up by professional support. We provide help and troubleshooting through our forums and E-mail. If you hit a bug which is a show stopper for your efforts, we are able to implement a quick fix and get you a custom build in a very short time. We will also evaluate any feature requests and implement those which are well aligned with the product functionality and our resources.
  
• More relaxed in license terms. Unlike the free GPL version there's no copyleft applied and Java test scripts and extensions do not have to be distributed under the same license.
  
• Smarter and faster. The Record & Replay feature was improved to provide more reliable results in cases where mouse moves drive a GUI action, for example selection of an item from the system Start menu. The image search algorithm was updated to provide up to 55% better performance. This makes script execution faster and saves resources (computer time).
  
• Richer in features. For Windows users there's a comfortable native installer to manage the application through the standard OS means. The product supports test scripts with structures common in the QA industry (test cases/scripts, test steps) and is able to export automated testing results to the XML format. The tool also provides XML test reports customizable through your own XML style sheet (XSL).
  
• Integrated with T-Plan Professional 7.0. Those who already use or plan on using the T-Plan test management tools will appreciate ability to import script data from and to export test results to the T-Plan database. Read the T-Plan Robot Integration Reference for more.