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Capricornus's avatar
Capricornus
Contributor
7 years ago

Tested application does not write ist own log when tested with TestComplete

Hello everyone,

 

the application I want to test with Test Complete normally writes text log files to C:\ProgramData\... when I am working with it. But when i run Keyword Tests with Test Complete, no log entries are written.

 

Could anybody help me, this seems very strange to me; I thought the application works same, whether running with TC or manually...

 

Thanks in advance :)

  • Capricornus's avatar
    Capricornus
    7 years ago

    Hello everyone,

     

    thank you for your replies; I found the reason of the problem: It had nothing to do with TC: Another application is stealing the log if I call a particular function in my application, even if I do it manually.

     

    Sorry for the confusion.

  • Capricornus's avatar
    Capricornus
    Contributor
    7 years ago

    Hello everyone,

     

    thank you for your replies; I found the reason of the problem: It had nothing to do with TC: Another application is stealing the log if I call a particular function in my application, even if I do it manually.

     

    Sorry for the confusion.

  • cunderw's avatar
    cunderw
    Community Hero
    7 years ago

    When you launch the app outside of test complete, how is it done? A shortcut, a command, a batch file? 

     

    Sounds to me like your application, when launched normally has some kind of flag tacked onto it's shortcut / command to enable the logging.  Something like -log or -debug

     

    You can add parameters like that to your tested app.

     

    Without more information though not sure where to point you.

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    7 years ago

    That is a bit odd... however, it might have to do with how you're running TC.  I THINK that folder is typically protected... so, if you're not running TC as an administrator or someone with proper access, your application which is run in that context might not be able to write to the log folder.

    • Marsha_R's avatar
      Marsha_R
      Moderator
      7 years ago

      I wouldn't put it in TestComplete's log folder anyway.  Keep your app's files separate.  Try creating a \AppLog folder of your own and see if you can write to that.