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Stephane
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

“An exception occurred while the element specified in the test item was being executed"

Hi,   I am currently lost as Testcomplete is not showing me where the error is happening.    The error (Please see attached) is happening intermittently.    The 'Execute Tests' test item ...
Stephane's avatar
Stephane
Occasional Contributor
7 years ago

Hi,

 

Thank you all for your suggestions. 

 

The Test Execute test item is the full regression pack which takes 2 hour to run, mostly because the scenarios are data driven but it will be impossible for me to put the code on the forum. 

 

I tried to add breakpoints and ran the full regression pack but this did not turn out well. 

  • The error happened on Scenario 22 but when I run scenario 22 on its own, the test passed. 
  • I ran the remaining tests where i got the error on scenario 34. I ran 34 and 35 and as expected the tests passed again. 
  • I checked the logs which does not show anything. I can see only the actions that test complete performed and the logs just stopped there without any error/details. 

Any other suggestion I should be considering? 

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
7 years ago

Are you using a data driver to drive all your scenarios?  If so, and it's a CSV driver, you could have connection issues.  The JET database engine behind the CSV driver has a maximum of 65 connections it can have open at a time.  If it's always failing at certain scenarios, that seems to be where I'd look... make sure that you're closing connections no longer needed, freeing up objects, etc.