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ddguy
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

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...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    5 years ago

    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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sonya_m
SmartBear Alumni (Retired)

Thank you Alex!

 

Hi ddguy, have you tried implementing the suggested approach?

ddguy's avatar
ddguy
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Hi Alex and Sonya,

 

I will implement this soon and try it out, thank you for the reply.!

  • sonya_m's avatar
    sonya_m
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    5 years ago

    We'll be waiting for your results in this thread then. For now, let me mark Alex's suggestion as a temporary solution.