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jamesc12
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2 years ago
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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
    2 years 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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jamesc12
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2 years ago

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

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rraghvani
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2 years ago

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

 

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    jamesc12
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    2 years 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
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      2 years 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.

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        jamesc12
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        2 years ago

        It logs in and interacts with the GUI just fine as far as I can tell, as if I open the browser within the BeforeScenario hook, it's fine, and there's a video recording of TC just hanging on the mentioned error, i.e.: