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jimpson
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11 years ago

Why could TestComplete/TestExecute fail to work with IE 11 in a Windows Server 2012 R2 environment

I have an environment full of Server 2012 R2 Machines.  If I force the GPOs down on them and restart them, TC/TE will work.  If I neglect to force the GPO down (which shouldn't make a difference), TC...
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TanyaYatskovska
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11 years ago

Hi Joshua,

 

Do I get it right that the tests are executing fine on Windows Server 2012 right after the server restart? Can you identify the period after which the tests stop executing and you have to reboot the server?

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    jimpson
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    11 years ago

    I've managed to narrow this problem down a little further...  So here goes.

     

    I previously had a GPO in place to launch our tested application and TestExecute when the machines were started.  If I disable this GPO, I have to manually start both the tested application and TestExecute.  When the TE application is started manually, the applicaiton will run the scripts without failure.  If I allow the GPO to start the tested application and TE, then the test will launch Internet Explorer ( a step required to generate data for the tested applicaiton) and then it appears to lose scope of the the IE browser.

     

    When TE and the tested app are launched via GPO, and the test fails, I can then cause a crash with the TE applicaiton by simply right clicking the TE system tray icon and using the applicaiton's built in exit command.  Exiting the application in this manner (the intended manner), causes the crash, which reports a problem with asComm in TestExecute. 

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      jimpson
      Contributor
      11 years ago

      Here is the error I get when I shutdown TE after a system restart:

       

      aqCommError.PNG

       

      Once I restart the TE client when this error occurs, I can continue as I would have been able to normally.

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        jimpson
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        11 years ago

        Here is a list of the things I have tried to remedy this situation:

         

        -Uninstall / Re-install TE with admin privileges

        -Manually start TE (This works)

        -GPO start TE from the executeable path (doesn't work)

        -GPO start TE from a custom link path that permits admin level privileges (doesn't work)

        -Scheduled Task start TE (doesn't work even when launched with highest privileges

        -Batch file start TE (doesn't work)

        -Delayed Scheduled Task start TE (doesn't work)

         

        Is there a debug mode for TE that would allow me to see why this aqComm.dll is failing?  If I could see that, I could possibly fix any potential permisssions issues with the app, or provide more information about what might be causing the issue...