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ddguy
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5 years ago
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Help With Object Not Found Error

Hi, I do QA for a desktop application. This application has UI threads that are sometimes slow, which I believe is causing our nightly Test Complete tests to fail with "the object does not exist" er...
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AlexKaras
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5 years ago
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Hi,

 

I would start from figuring out what causes the 'Catastrophic failure' error. It might be an indication of some crash of/in the tested application or in TestComplete itself.

 

You may also consider to use .WaitXXX methods (WaitWindow(), WaitAliasChild(), etc.) to dynamically wait until the sought for object becomes available.

 

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Thank you Alex!

 

Hi ddguy, have you tried implementing the suggested approach?