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littlebear
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4 months ago

ADO Microsoft-Hosted Agent unable to navigate control

Hello, I am trying to get an ADO pipeline to run a Keyword test, and it is failing to do so. The Keyword test has one enabled step, to navigate to https://www.subzero-wolf.com/ in the Chrome browse...
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  • littlebear's avatar
    littlebear
    4 months ago

    Hi everyone, I have the solution.

    The Chrome "Choose your user" menu was popping up before the browser could load, and my test was not taking that into account.

    The SmartBear support work around for this as of 8/15/2024 is to add a PowerShell command in between the InstallTestCompleteAdapter step and the VSTest step. This tells Chrome that you are using a particular user, so you go immediately to the browser:

    - powershell: 
    $chromePath = "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" 
    Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome -Name PasswordManagerEnabled -Value 0 
    Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Chrome -Name PrivacySandboxPromptEnabled -Value 0 
    Start-Process $chromePath -ArgumentList "--profile-directory=Default", "--no-first-run", "--disable-search-engine-choice-screen" 
    if (Test-Path -Path $chromePath) { 
        $chromeVersion = (Get-Item $chromePath).VersionInfo.ProductVersion 
        Write-Host "Chrome version: $chromeVersion" 
    }
    else{ 
    Write-Host "Chrome not found at the default location." 
    } 
    Start-Sleep -Seconds 60 
    Stop-Process -Name 'chrome' 
    Start-Process $chromePath -ArgumentList "--profile-directory=Default", "--no-first-run", "--disable-search-engine-choice-screen" 
  displayName: "Chrome Set Up"

    In my file, which can be seen in another thread, this code would start on line 23 and end on line 38. 

    Good luck!

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rraghvani
Champion Level 3
4 months ago

Have you looked at the test results file that was generated? It might give you more information.

It's also helpful to mention the parameters or settings used in the pipe line - it could be a configuration issue.

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    littlebear
    Contributor
    4 months ago

    Thank you for your advice.

    Looking at the test results file generated by ADO, it doesn't have any problems visible as I go line by line, except for the strange error that is thrown above. Is there a different test results file I should look at?

    As to the parameters or settings, this is the YAML file in its entirety: 

    While I attach this YAML file, the problem doesn't seem to be here, because these steps work are working as they're supposed to. Even VSTest is doing its job when it reports that the test failed. It is when, in the VSTest step, the job tries to run a test in the virtual environment that we cannot even open a browser to navigate to a website.