Testing / Ranorex Interview questions
What is the Ranorex Agent used for?
The Ranorex Agent is a lightweight service installed on a remote or test machine so that a Ranorex test suite can be triggered and executed on that machine from elsewhere, without opening Ranorex Studio on it directly.
It listens for execution requests, runs the assigned test suite locally against whatever desktop, browser, or mobile setup is available on that machine, and reports results back, which is what allows tests to be distributed across several PCs, VMs, or a device lab instead of always running on the developer's own workstation.
This makes the Agent a key piece for running tests in a CI environment or for spreading a large regression suite across several machines to finish sooner.
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