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anthonybad91
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24 days ago

Chrome minimizes and reopens every on screen action

We're experiencing an issue where for every on screen action Chrome minimizes and reopens. I created a brand new test suite and wrote a simple test navigating around the smartbear site and we are sti...
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anthonybad91
Occasional Contributor
20 days ago

divyagupta03​ No answer from support on a timeline for a fix yet. Responded that this is a critical issue as we are unable to run tests successfully. I will update this post if I hear back. 

 

We have not seen the issue with Edge at the moment. So we are using that for the time being. Looking into ways to parameterize what browser we use for a whole test suite run

  • Hassan_Ballan's avatar
    Hassan_Ballan
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    20 days ago

    That's a good workaround to use Edge until SmartBear address Chrome issue.

    To run your TestComplete tests using different browsers (like Chrome or Edge) without rewriting your scripts, you can parameterize the browser selection at the project level, create a Project Variable. This allows you to switch browsers for the entire project by changing a single variable or setting.

    function LaunchApp(url) {
  var browserName = Project.Variables.BrowserName.toLowerCase();
  Browsers.Item(browserName).Run(url);
}

LaunchApp("https://yourwebsite.com");

    You can also specify CI/CD pipeline command line value

    TestComplete.exe "YourProjectSuite.pjs" /run /project:"YourProject" /pv:BrowserName=edge

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    • anthonybad91's avatar
      anthonybad91
      Occasional Contributor
      20 days ago

      Yeah we found a pretty good path forward for us at the moment.

      Basically added a global variable 'Browser' to our project suite. Specify 'Chrome' or 'Edge'

      Then in every keyword test or script in each test project change the Navigate operation to use Parameterized, change the Browser to a variable and set the value to 'ProjectSuite.Variables.Browser'

       

      • divyagupta03's avatar
        divyagupta03
        New Contributor
        20 days ago

        Hassan_Ballan​ anthonybad91​  The web application i am testing it doesn't supports Edge. It only supports chrome. Is there any other workaround or if you can suggest me some lower version where OCR and this minimize/maximize thing works well.