I went on annual leave on 29th March - everything was working fine.
Coming back in to the office and my tests are on average 6-8 mins slower now using Chrome than they were previously (12 mins -> 18-20 mins). I can see that there was an update to the Chrome Ranorex plugin on 29th March - is there any way to go back to old plugin?
IE11 is working fine with no decrease in speed
Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
Ranorex 8.1.0 was released March 28. If you have not done so, please update to that version and see it that fixes the issue. The Chrome plugin was updated due to the release.
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Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
Can you please check the version of your Ranorex Chrome Extension? You can find this by opening the Chrome menu, click on "More Tools" -> "Extensions". Then click on "Details" for the Ranorex Extension. Thank you!
Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team
Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team
Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
Chrome extension plugin is 1.1.2
Currently on Ranorex 8.0 - will look to update to 8.1 and see if that fixes the issue
Currently on Ranorex 8.0 - will look to update to 8.1 and see if that fixes the issue
Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
Ranorex has now been updated to 8.1 - Chrome plugin is 1.1.2
This has improved the speeds seen on 8.0 with plugin 1.1.2 by about 4 mins but it is still between 3-4 mins slower than it was before the Chrome plugin was updated.
Is there anyway to use an old version of the plugin or to stop it auto updating?
This has improved the speeds seen on 8.0 with plugin 1.1.2 by about 4 mins but it is still between 3-4 mins slower than it was before the Chrome plugin was updated.
Is there anyway to use an old version of the plugin or to stop it auto updating?
Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
Yes, you can use an old version, e.g. install Ranorex 8.0.1 again and use the extension delivered with that version. You do that by:matthewk wrote:Is there anyway to use an old version of the plugin or to stop it auto updating?
- Install Ranorex 8.0.1
- Opening Chrome menu "More tools" -> "Extensions"
- Remove any currently installed Ranorex extensions
- Switch the "Developer mode" on
- Click on "Load Unpacked", navigate to the Ranorex installation folder and select the "Ranorex Chrome Extension" folder
Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team
Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
Trying to follow your advice has broken all my tests.
I have downgraded to 8.0.0 again but Ranorex studio shows an error for all files when opening solution saying that downgrading of files is not possible.
I have downgraded to 8.0.0 again but Ranorex studio shows an error for all files when opening solution saying that downgrading of files is not possible.
Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
I have resolved the broken tests by manually changing the Ranorex version used everywhere - took a lot of manual work as many files affected - would be nice if the tools supported this automatically.
Will investigate performance again now we are back on the older version
Will investigate performance again now we are back on the older version
Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
No joy - using the Plugin version which came with 8.0 (1.0.11) fails to find any elements (via existing tests or inspecting via Spy). The browser does not seem to think it is present as I get the dialog attached when using Spy
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Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
This is probably because Chrome is not instrumented, yet. I may have forgot to add that step:
Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team
- Install Ranorex 8.0.1
- Instrument Chrome using the Ranorex Instrumentation Wizard
- Opening Chrome menu "More tools" -> "Extensions"
- Remove/Disable any currently installed Ranorex extensions
- Switch the "Developer mode" on
- Click on "Load Unpacked", navigate to the Ranorex installation folder and select the "Ranorex Chrome Extension" folder
Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team
Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
Figured the last error out - the chrome extension was not in the allowed hosts section for "<Ranorex Installation Folder>\bin\Ranorex.Plugin.ChromeMsgHost.manifest" file for some reason.
With that edited, elements were being found again.
I can confirm that rollback to Ranorex 8.0 & plugin 1.0.11 has not improved the speed.
Which rules out the plugin being an issue - I'm at a bit of a loss now - there have been no changes to our code. Only thing I can think of is maybe a Chrome update itself has caused this - will try and find out when the last update was
With that edited, elements were being found again.
I can confirm that rollback to Ranorex 8.0 & plugin 1.0.11 has not improved the speed.
Which rules out the plugin being an issue - I'm at a bit of a loss now - there have been no changes to our code. Only thing I can think of is maybe a Chrome update itself has caused this - will try and find out when the last update was
Re: Poor performance in Chrome since 29th March
Not sure how your tests are made up, but probably the servers hosting your websites got slower? The response times from the web server typically have a huge effect on the length of a test...
Anyway, thank you very much for your feedback and looking forward to your findings!
Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team
Anyway, thank you very much for your feedback and looking forward to your findings!
Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team