Integrating with Ranorex

TestRail is a powerful test management tool that helps teams organize, track, and analyze their testing efforts. But to truly optimize your testing workflow, you need efficient test automation. That’s where Ranorex comes in.

By integrating Ranorex with TestRail, you can automate UI tests and push results directly into TestRail, ensuring a seamless connection between test execution and reporting. This article walks you through the integration process, so you can enhance test coverage, improve efficiency, and streamline reporting.

What is Ranorex?

Ranorex is an all-in-one UI test automation tool for desktop, web, and mobile applications. It offers a full IDE with open APIs, intelligent code completion, refactoring, and debugging for automation experts.

Users can leverage its capture-and-replay tools and built-in methodology to create reliable, maintainable tests while learning automation. Ranorex also enables cross-functional team collaboration through shared object repositories and test automation modules. Additionally, it is backed by a dedicated support team to ensure user success.

Key benefits:

• Maximize resources: Expand test coverage and support fast-paced release cycles while controlling costs.
• Empower every skill level: Build sophisticated tests with easy-to-use tools for codeless automation; plus a full IDE.
• All-in-one solution: Automate desktop, web and mobile tests on legacy platforms or the latest technologies.
• Simple integration: Synchronize test cases with Ranorex Studio and get real-time testing feedback in TestRail.

Why integrate Ranorex with TestRail?

As a TestRail user, you already know the importance of efficient test case management in delivering high-quality software. But to truly accelerate your testing cycles and increase test coverage, you need powerful UI test automation—and that's where Ranorex Studio comes in.

By integrating TestRail’s structured test management with Ranorex’s robust automation, you can:

• Eliminate repetitive manual testing – Use data-driven automation to cover corner, edge, and boundary cases without repeating the same test steps for different data values.
• Speed up release cycles – Run automated regression tests overnight and in parallel, ensuring that you get rapid feedback on application quality.
• Enhance test stability – Ranorex’s reliable object recognition and built-in best practices keep your tests stable, even as your application evolves.
• Free up your QA team – With less time spent on routine test execution, your testers can focus on exploratory, UX, and high-value test scenarios.
• Seamlessly integrate into your workflow – Ranorex supports a wide range of technologies, making it easy to automate tests across desktop, web, and mobile applications, all while managing everything in TestRail.

By combining TestRail with Ranorex Studio, you’re not just automating tests—you’re maximizing efficiency, improving software quality, and delivering high-velocity feedback essential for DevOps success.

• Save time: Automate repetitive UI tests and focus on more critical tasks.
• Improve accuracy: Reduce human error by running consistent automated tests.
• Seamless reporting: Automatically send test results to TestRail for better tracking and analysis.
• Better collaboration: Centralize manual and automated test results in one place for better team insights.

Step-by-Step guide to Integrate Ranorex result with TestRail

Step 1: Set Up Your TestRail API

To enable communication between Ranorex and TestRail, you’ll need to use the TestRail API. Log in to TestRail and go to Administration Site Settings API. Enable the API if it’s not already active.

Note your TestRail instance URL, username, and API key (found in your user settings).

Step 2: Configure Your Ranorex Test Suite

Ensure that your Ranorex tests are set up correctly: Open Ranorex Studio and load your test suite. Organize test cases to match your TestRail test structure. Ensure test reports are enabled in Ranorex for tracking results.

Step 3: Set Up your TestRail Integration

After you have your test cases completed, is time to set up the integration of it with TestRail, so you'll be able to map and track all your results into TestRail and guarantee a seamless test management of all the work that's being done.

For that, you need to access Tool > TestRail integration > Start TestRail wizard.

A simple show dialog will be presented, in which will explain what you can do with this integration.

The next step will be one in which you set all the information that you have related to your TestRail connection. URL of the instance, your email and password of access (or API Key) are required.

Note: be aware of the URL, as by default it will be added index.php?/api/v2 to the end. So you must only copy/paste until .io from your URL.

Next, click sign in button.

Once everything is completed successfully, you will be signed up, and the Ranorex-TestRail integration will be properly configured.

Step 4 : Send Results From Ranorex Execution To TestRail

After clicking Continue on the previous popup, you’ll need to complete a new configuration step. The Ranorex-TestRail integration can be set up in one of two ways:

• Export all your existing data from Ranorex to TestRail.

• Import all your data from TestRail into Ranorex.

Next, you’ll be prompted to choose what to export and where to export it. This step is crucial as it lets you decide which data should be integrated into TestRail. For instance, you may still be working on Test Suites that aren’t ready for integration. Note that you can always edit this information later.

• The Export to dropdown is set by default to create a new project in TestRail, but you can open the list to select any available project from the instance.

After selecting what to export and to where, it's just a matter of proceeding and waiting for the process to finish.

Step 5: Validate Your Project in TestRail

Its important to mention that the name of the project within Ranorex, is the same name of your project in TestRail.:

Exploring the project we can confirm that everything was exported correctly

(Project Overview)

(Test Cases

Step 6: Run Your Tests and Integrate Results With TestRail

Now, back in Ranorex, let’s focus on the Integration plugin:

• Synchronize with TestRail: Keeps the TestRail project up to date by syncing whenever changes are made to the test suites.

• Run Tests and Report Results to TestRail: Sends all test execution results from your test suite to TestRail.

To continue with this example, we’ll click the second button to initiate the test execution and results integration.

A new configuration popup will appear.

Here, you can select:

• The Project/Test Suite from which you want to execute tests.

• Where the results will be exported to:

  • A new Test Run

  • An existing Test Run (if it's not your first execution).

Once the execution is complete, return to TestRail to verify the test run information.