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SlickRick
Frequent Contributor
11 months ago

Flagging Known Bugs

So i wrote some UI tests for some feature which have known bugs. Obviously those tests are currently failing because indeed the feature is broken. However in my azure pipeline i would those tests...
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  • MW_Didata's avatar
    MW_Didata
    11 months ago

    I like to post a warning on top and disable the actions inside the Keywordtest, this way you can see what tests are disabld by the warning, and then just remove the warning an re-enable when it gets fixed: 

    If you use a ticket system you could post the ticket number in the warning.

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SlickRick
Frequent Contributor

But the purpose is not to exclude them from the test run, but to show them differently.

A bit like TDD, where the product is not considered complete until all tests are fully passing.

The idea here to differentiate between a new failing test (not known) vs a test that fails due to a bug which was already discovered but waiting to be fixed.

Anyways, it seems like I'm the only one seeing value in this :)

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rraghvani
Champion Level 3
11 months ago

I have a bunch of tests which are dependant on one another, and they need to be executed in order, using the execution plan. If a test fails, it will usually cause the other tests to fail, even though I have On Error set to Continue Running. However, if the remaining tests pass, I won't accept that as a pass. Until the issue has been fixed and the test that failed, actually passes. Certain situations may give a false positive or negative result. 

It's best to keep the automation as simple as possible.