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You can use Sys.Process("TestComplete").FileVersionInfo to get the full version number, e.g. 9.0.1312.7, or you can use Sys.Process("TestComplete").FileVersionInfo.MajorPart, MinorPart, BuildPart and PrivatePart to get the corresponding parts of the version number.

In order to work with the Network Suite it is important to have the same version of TestComplete installed on all systems. Can I check the version number from script? I am thinking about storing it in a NetWork Suite variable in order to compare the TestComplete version.

Yes, we use log monitoring as part of our testing process. Each manual tester is asked to monitor the logs during test (tail -f), to look for hidden errors/exceptions during testing.

Also, our UI will pop-up a dialog if a client side exception is thrown. These usually cause automated tests to fail, and starts the investigation.

Finally, we have a script that runs nightly to aggregate all of the errors & exceptions from the log files, compare to a list of known issues, and send an email to the team for new errors that appear in the logs. This triggers investigation. (same script runs in production as well)

Here is a document that outlines challenges and solutions of testing of Mars Science Laboratory.
I found the approach of log files analysis unexpected but quite beneficial on many levels. It seems to me that the same approach could be used while testing the more conventional web applications, for example.
Does anyone have a practical experience and lessons learned from this way of testing?

Is this the sort of thing you are looking for ?

I have gone through this book http://www.compendiumdev.co.uk/selenium/ which is excellent and I highly recommend it to everyone! I was wondering if there is a similar book/tutorial with a Ruby focus that anyone would recommend?

I do not know any PDF library that had satisfying results. My way is currently to convert PDF to text and work from there. A-PDF Text Extractor is my tool of choice here.

I'm doing some automated regression testing on a web application using Rational Functional Tester with Java. I need to test some PDF files produced by that application, comparing them with a "base" PDf file that has been manually validated. The testing is content-based, meaning that little differences in disposition on page are tolerated. Some content like dates or purchase IDs are variable, and should not be considered errors, so I need comparing with regexps or similar. Image matching with adjustable tolerance would be a great plus, for comparing QR codes and other bar codes. When an error occurs, I want a screenshot with base page and the faulty one. Actually I built a wrapper around this library to suit my requirementshttp://www.inetsoftware.de/other-products/pdf-content-comparerIt works quite good for PDF-1.3, but seems like the library poorly supports files in PDF-1.4 format. It's not possible to change the output format of the web app, and regression bugs are quite common in the prints. Any PDF comparer library to suggest? Preferred language is Java, as RFT is Java based, but anything's fine.