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JennyH11's avatar
JennyH11
Frequent Contributor
7 years ago

Object errors on run in newly created projectsuite with keywordtests shared from other suite

Hi   I have created a new project suite this morning and have added the items I need from another suite including the specific keyword tests I need, testedapps, stores, namemapping. It seems to r...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    7 years ago

    What it sounds like is converstion.

     

    When you create a project in TestComplete, one of the things you select is the code language for the project (JavaScript, DelphiScript, etc).  Even if you're using only keyword tests, there is some aspect of that which uses that code language (code expressions, code snippets, etc).  

    So, if Project A was created for one language and Project B was created for another language, when you added stuff from A into B, a conversion most likely took place of those portions that are code dependant.

     

    This MAY actually be the cause of your first problem, that when you added your items to Project B, they converted improperly (or didn't convert at all) and hence wouldn't run in the new project.

Marsha_R's avatar
Marsha_R
Moderator

Check the type of the parameters in the lines that give the error.  You may have a variable somewhere that's string instead of object or some other type mixup.  

JennyH11's avatar
JennyH11
Frequent Contributor
7 years ago

Thanks for your reply Marsha_R.

 

I couldn't find a way to resolve this issue quickly so I had to revert back to using the existing project for what I wanted to do. It was a bit of a pain but not major.

 

I did have a side effect issue caused by sharing the test with the other project suite which I am more concerned about. When I tried to run the test I had shared from it's parent project it would not run for the same reason. When I looked closer the Value had changed and now included odd full stops where it didn't before. For example,

 

aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr(aqDateTime.AddDays(aqDateTime.Today, 1), "%d%m%Y")

became something like 

aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr.(aqDateTime.AddDays(aqDateTime.Today,. 1),. "%d%m%Y")

 

So, basically, by sharing the test with another project I had inadvertantly broken the test! To resolve I had to manually amend and take out the random full stops, thankfully I hadn't shared many.

 

Any idea why this happened? I would like to share tests between projects and project suites, so I would be interested to know so that I can make sure this doesn't occur.

 

Many thanks,

Jenny

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    7 years ago

    What it sounds like is converstion.

     

    When you create a project in TestComplete, one of the things you select is the code language for the project (JavaScript, DelphiScript, etc).  Even if you're using only keyword tests, there is some aspect of that which uses that code language (code expressions, code snippets, etc).  

    So, if Project A was created for one language and Project B was created for another language, when you added stuff from A into B, a conversion most likely took place of those portions that are code dependant.

     

    This MAY actually be the cause of your first problem, that when you added your items to Project B, they converted improperly (or didn't convert at all) and hence wouldn't run in the new project.

    • JennyH11's avatar
      JennyH11
      Frequent Contributor
      7 years ago

      Hi tristaanogre!

       

      You're a star! I think you've hit the nail on the head. Each project uses a different coding language, one VBScript, the other Python.

       

      So, I have my answer. If I want to share between projects use the same coding language as the project I'm sharing the test from and this issue shouldn't occur.

       

      I am successfully sharing one test from a VBScript project to a DelphiScript project currently and apart from an object mismatch between the two projects have not seen any issues. Perhaps the issue is specifically with conversion between VBScript to Python? Just a thought.

       

      Thanks for your help tristaanogre!

      • tristaanogre's avatar
        tristaanogre
        Esteemed Contributor
        7 years ago

        I'm not sure how it's working with sharing VBScript project with DelphiScript.  Could be that you don't have any code-snippets to update or such.  

         

        But yeah, if you're going to share stuff between projects, it's best to make sure that each project has the same code language.