Test Director incompatible with IE7!
I already knew test director was incompatible with my favourite browser, Firefox. It has been the only reason that IE6 has remained a desktop item on my laptops and pcs. But i’ve recently downloaded IE7 and quickly found out that its not compatible with Test Director… Arghhh! Now what am i supposed to do. A test manager without his test cases and test reports isnt worth a heck of a lot 
Luckily i was able to find this handy little application which allows my to install a stand alone version of IE6. Fantastic! My job is safe for a little while longer 
Sure, it has a few annoying little bugs (e.g. i can not access my favourites) but that suites me just fine as i only want to use it access test director.
Its also a great little application for developers and testers so they can view how their web pages look in different versions of IE. It has already come in handy when i’ve needed to perform accessibility testing across multiple browsers. It sure beats having a different test machine for each browser!
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So I’m not the only person whose sole use of IE is for Test Director!
The only possible good thing is that the IE7 “fix” of Test Director might be to make it a proper web app rather than a load of crufty old ActiveX controls, so it would be possible to use any browser. I guess I can dream…
I share your dream. I’ve always wondered why they never switched to web 2.0. Perhaps its the complexity of the application…
Personally I think Test Director isn’t used to its full by most companies. I’d recommend it if used to map test scripts with original requirements etc. Otherwise I’m a big fan of Bugzilla.
TD explorer acts as a client side application and forget all browser compatibility issues.
can be downloaded at http://updates.merc-int.com/testdirector/td80/others/tdexplorer/index.html
Thats brilliant Muthu! Wish i’d know about it sooner. Thanks for tip.
The tool only spoofs your “User Agent” it doesn’t actually emulate IE6. In other words, just because a page works with this tool in IE 7 that doesn’t mean it will work in 6.0, nor will it process CSS or scripts like IE 6 does, so it is most definately NOT viable to test browser compatibility.
Jack van Vliet says:
October 23, 2006 at 08:18 EDT
Run this in the address bar, when TestDirector shows the message it cannot load:
javascript:void(eval(“document.writeln(”);write_ie_object();”))
Ilya says:
November 3, 2006 at 08:27 EST
Hey,
The workaround is easy, just go to TDBIN and modify check line for IE version in start_a.htm as following:
var fMSIE3456 = (ua.lastIndexOf(‘MSIE 3.0′) != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf(‘MSIE 4.0′) != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf(‘MSIE 5.0′) != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf(‘MSIE 5.5′) != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf(‘MSIE 6.0′) != -1) || (ua.lastIndexOf(‘MSIE 7.0′) != -1);
now IE7 will work!
testdirector works in ff, just open the page and READ what it says.