web test, radom "the object does not exist"

[lansanniu]

web page test, JAVA developement.



press a button to pop-up a window. when I playback ,



sometimes   "the object does not exist" will throw in this step,



but when I try it again once or more,  it will pass. or  I close the window and open it



again manually ,then  highlight  it, it can be found. 



there is not any problem in NameMapping,  the pop-up window was defined currectly.



so what's the problem???  



 please help~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[murugans1011 · Accepted solution]

sometimes the tested apps object idetification properties change frequent. So tc cannot identify the specified object. try 'Find' method to search for the specified object

[lansanniu]

I've found the reason, it is a bug of  the window ,some operation  can  make the window



out  of  focus,so that TC  can not find  the  window .



If I click  any  part  of  the  window  manually , make  it  in  a  focused  status , TC  can  



playback  correctly  .





 thanks all the same ,Murugan S

[tristaanogre]

So, in other words, your automated tests did EXACTLY what they were supposed to, find bugs. 🙂

[murugans1011]

So use 'setfocus' method to focus on the window automatically