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marinb's avatar
marinb
Contributor
7 years ago

Browser exists, yet it does not. How is that possible?

To properly kill any process before starting my tests, I've added this bit of code (part of a bigger loop):   browser = Sys.WaitProcess(eachBrowser, 1000); if (browser.exists) { logMessage.debu...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    7 years ago

    We do all our testing in IE so our code is IE centric... however, this is what we're doing:

    function closeIEInstance() {
    var counter = 0;
    var browser;
    browser = Sys.WaitBrowser('iexplore', 1000);
    while((browser.Exists) && (counter < 60)){
        counter++;
        browser.Terminate();
        browser = Sys.WaitBrowser('iexplore', 1000);
    }

    Note that, instead of process, we're using "WaitBrowser".  See if this works better for you.

tristaanogre's avatar
tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor

We do all our testing in IE so our code is IE centric... however, this is what we're doing:

function closeIEInstance() {
    var counter = 0;
    var browser;
    browser = Sys.WaitBrowser('iexplore', 1000);
    while((browser.Exists) && (counter < 60)){
        counter++;
        browser.Terminate();
        browser = Sys.WaitBrowser('iexplore', 1000);
    }

Note that, instead of process, we're using "WaitBrowser".  See if this works better for you.

marinb's avatar
marinb
Contributor
7 years ago

That code looks a bit neater than ours. I will try it that way as well.

I stopped using waitBrowser because waitBrowser does not recognize iexplore processes running without an actual page interface. Too many times, this code:

browser = waitBrowser(browserName, 1000);
if (!browser.Exists) { 
    Log.Message ('Browser does not exist, I am going to start it...');
    Browsers.Item(browserName).Run(url)
}

lead to log:

Browser exists, I am going to start it

Browser already running!

 

 

said 'there is no browser running, I am going to start one...'

and then 'Browser already running' when doing

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    7 years ago

    Actually, in our case, WaitBrowser finds the IE processes just fine.  Give it a shot and see if it works for you.

     

    Something else to consider doing is making sure all browsers are closed at the start of a tst case as well before running the browser...  close everything, then run.

     

    • marinb's avatar
      marinb
      Contributor
      7 years ago

      Yeah, the startBrowser(x) function first closes all browsers of type x, unless you specify you do not want to. Nothing more annoying than connecting to a test agent and finding 34 browsers opened.