1. Prepare Your Electron Application for Testing

In this tutorial, to show how to test Electron applications with TestComplete, we are going to use the Quick Start sample application. It is the application that the Electron documentation uses in its Quick Start tutorial.

TestComplete can only test Electron-based applications distributed as Windows-compatible executables. To make our Quick Start application available for testing, we will run it by using Electron prebuilt binaries:

1. Get the Quick Start sample application’s source files from the Electron repository:

   https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start

2. Get the Electron prebuilt binaries from the Electron repository:

   https://github.com/electron/electron/releases

3. Unpack the Electron prebuilt binaries.

4. Place the Quick Start application files you have downloaded from the repository (package.json, web pages, scripts, and other files) to the resources/app folder of the unpacked Electron binaries:

   

5. (Optional.) If you want to, rename the downloaded electron.exe binary to fit your tested application name, for example, quick-start.exe:

   

6. Launch the resulting binary. Electron will start your application:

   

To learn more about packaging and distributing Electron applications, see the Electron documentation.

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Testing Electron Applications - Tutorial
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