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maumrm
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6 years ago

File Explorer during Web Testing

Is there a best practice for how to navigate/select/open files during automation testing of web applications?   I have a test that during the application a file needs to be loaded. When the test se...
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maumrm
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6 years ago

Hi Marsha -

Thanks for the idea, I tried a couple different delays and neither one worked. The window is up and shown in the fail screenshot, so it is there, just not recognized during VM testing.

 

Any other thoughts?

 

Thanks,

Mike

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6 years ago
The window is up and shown in the fail screenshot, so it is there, just not recognized during VM testing.

 

 

"Visible" and "Exists" and "Active" = true don't necessarily all occur at once.  In other words, just because you can see it doesn't necessarily mean TC can see it, which is exactly the predicament  you are in.

 

What I would try next is turning Debug on and stepping through the code from a little before the failure happens.  See if you can get past the step that way.

 

 

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    maumrm
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    6 years ago

    Thanks Marsha - another piece of the puzzle that may or may not be relevant is that on my desktop this test can be ran w/in TestComplete. The VM is running the test with TestExecute. Is that relevant? I'm not seeing an option to do debugging through TestExecute.

     

    Cheers -

    Mike

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      Marsha_R
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      6 years ago

      You're right, there's not.  What happens if you run it from TestExecute on your machine?

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        Marsha_R
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        6 years ago

        Oops, sorry I didn't see your other reply.  Can you put TestComplete on the VM and try that?

         

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    maumrm
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    6 years ago

    FWIW this test worked when ran from my desktop using TestExecute. So...there must be something about running it on the VM.