Inconsistent test duration
Hello. I'm doing some UI testing with TC and can't really explain why I have the same test (same environment, parameters, everything) run with very different durations: fast run everything is don...
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From ~7 to ~40 minutes, that a big difference!
I suggest you work on a small area of your web application and debug the code. You will need to repeat this a few times, and visually analyse what's going on. Hopefully, you will see some patterns merging that will give you some clues
I've managed to see a small pattern but it doesn't explain everything (yet).
Whenever I had a fast run the browser was still opened from a previous run. Maybe that helped out with not getting the cache deleted. When I've disabled the "Extended find" I didn't have any fast runs.
The problem that I'm struggling to understand now is why there are still differences when the browser remains opened.
Summing it up:
- browser is closed at the beginning of the test and needs to get opened - always a slow run
- browser is opened when the test begins (we have a check to open the browser only if it's not opened already) - sometimes a fast sometimes a slow run
- with 'Extended find' disabled I haven't gotten a fast run
- with 'Extended find' enabled I do get either a slow or a fast run
I've did several tests considering smaller parts of the test and what I saw was that in slower runs every action takes a couple of seconds to perform (they actually search for the required objects), whereas in the fast runs like I said before, they find the objects instantly.
Kind regards,
Cristi
