Why does IE 11 sometime end up under SmartBear TestComplete in Task Manager

[kevin_kapell]

Often when I close the IE 11 browser via TestComplete the Iinternet Explorer Apps gets moved/displayed under the SmartBear TestComplete app. This then causes me a problem when trying to open the IE browser.

I attached an image of the problem.

There seems to be something in the way I am closing or terminating the IE browser but I have yet to figure it out or come up with a short script that will consistently reproduce it.

[Marsha_R]

Is IE11 in your list of tested apps?

[kevin_kapell]

Marsha I do not understand your question. Where would this list be?

[Marsha_R]

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/testing-with/tested-apps/about.html

[kevin_kapell]

OK Marsha_R, I remember what this is now. We do have Chrome listed as we need to launch that a specific way in order to find objects in a particular window but no other browser is listed there.

[tristaanogre]

Even so, one of the things about IE is that it almost always spawns two processes.  And sometimes, even outside of TestComplete's test cases, closing the IE browser does not always end all the processes.  I've seen this happen multiple times.

For this reason, we use the following code to close IE

function closeIEInstance() {
    var counter = 0;
    var browser;
    browser = Sys.WaitBrowser('iexplore', 1000);
    while((browser.Exists) && (counter < 60)){
        counter++;
        browser.Terminate();
        browser = Sys.WaitBrowser('iexplore', 1000);
    }  
}