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jamesc12
Occasional Contributor
11 months ago

Opening browser from BeforeFeature hook causes 'Unable to find the object Sys.Browser("*")' error

Hi all, I have 2 feature files, with multiple scenarios inside them. I am opening the browser using the following function below: function OpenBrowser() { Log.AppendFolder("Open browser for the te...
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    jamesc12
    10 months ago

    Hi all,

    Just to follow up on this, I found out why this was a problem.

    In the Azure Devops Pipeline, the TestCompleteAdapter does NOT support BeforeFeature and AfterFeature hooks. Confirmed by Smartbear themselves. 

    Thanks again and hope this helps someone else that bumps into this issue.

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rraghvani
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Does this work for you?

BeforeFeature(function (feature){
  Browsers.Item(btChrome).Run();
  Sys.Browser().BrowserWindow(0).Maximize();
})
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jamesc12
Occasional Contributor
11 months ago

Thanks for the reply. Tried this, and I still get the exact same error for each test.

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    rraghvani
    Champion Level 3
    11 months ago

    I'm using TC v15.61 and this is what I get,

     

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      jamesc12
      Occasional Contributor
      11 months ago

      Locally it's fine for me too (TC v15.61.1.7), it's just remotely it seems to have the problem. It's running the exact code as below

       

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        rraghvani
        Champion Level 3
        11 months ago

        On your remote machine, do you have an interactive user session running? If the computer is locked, there won't be any GUI for TC to interact with, and the scripts will fail.