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5 years ago

Object texboxUserName does not exist

Hi I have recorded a KeywordTest and I am getting error The object texboxUsername does not exist, this object do exist and I was able to login into the application after logging in, on the firs...

Marsha_R
5 years ago
It frequently happens that test is executing faster than the object loads, so that TestComplete is looking for the object just before it actually exists.

The best thing to do is to have your test wait and make sure the object exists before it tries to use the object. Here are some ways to do that.

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/test-objects/members/common-for-all/waitchild-method.html

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/app-objects/common-tasks/waiting-property-value.html

Marsha_R

Moderator

5 years ago

It frequently happens that test is executing faster than the object loads, so that TestComplete is looking for the object just before it actually exists.

The best thing to do is to have your test wait and make sure the object exists before it tries to use the object. Here are some ways to do that.

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/test-objects/members/common-for-all/waitchild-method.html

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/app-objects/common-tasks/waiting-property-value.html