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Hi RSRIT,
I’m really sorry to hear about your ongoing experience — it’s incredibly frustrating when you do everything right, including providing a reproducible case, and still see no progress over such a long time.
At this point, I strongly recommend shifting focus from waiting on a fix to exploring a workaround, if at all possible. Many of us in the community have been in similar situations where a workaround became the only viable short-term path forward — especially when timelines start stretching beyond what’s reasonable.
Here are a couple of suggestions that might help:
- Reframe your current issue as a community post (without NDA-sensitive details) and share what the problem looks like in practical terms — someone here may have dealt with a similar scenario and found a way around it.
- If the bug is isolated (e.g., tied to a specific object type, control, or technology), try experimenting with alternative identification methods, scripting workarounds, or even environment adjustments.
- If you’re still under maintenance, it’s still worth reaching out to your SmartBear Sales Rep to escalate the ticket — especially now that historical data has been lost.
Sometimes another set of eyes can spot a workaround path that’s easy to miss when you’ve been buried in it for so long.
You're definitely not alone in this — and the community is here to help where we can.
Hi Hassan_Ballan,
Thanks for the response, I really appreciate it! We were able to find a workaround more than a year ago, but it just isn't a great long-term solution. We have tried reaching out to other members of the SmartBear team, and that has not been helpful. We have talked to 3 account managers and a renewals specialist. The account managers either told us that the issue was being investigated or we just didn't hear back from them after emailing them. The renewals specialist told us that the ticket was escalated. Part of our frustration is that we paid for a renewal with them because we were told the ticket was escalated after the case had already been open for over a year. I'll try reaching out to a SmartBear Sales Rep again.