objects previously recognized on desktop app
When beginning this project, I went through the exercise of getting objects to be recognized by test complete. I have a number of objects whose class is reported as WindowsForms10.Window.8.app.0.198698e_r8_ad1 or some variation. I was able to get recognitions with: adding appropriate the class names to Project/Properties/Open Applications/MSAA. I then began happily writing my test and enjoying every happy minute. What changed, you asked? I don't know. I make no changes to code or project properties. Immediately before observing this behavior, I had accepted the TestComplete dialog to update to the new version. Of course that is it, thought I. So I downgraded to TC 15.54.3.7 (which is the only version I have around. Waiting on SmartBear to tell me why my TC licenses are not showing up in the license manager.) I am experiencing the same problem in this previous version of TC. The only other thing I can think of that changed is that the AUT's database was restored. But the behavior that I am seeing in TC began before this. And in no way did this change the user interface. I looked at installed extensions, they are all installed except HP something something which I don't have. Any ideas from anyone on what might be going on? Thanks
Keys method sometimes adds period(.) in the middle of text
When using keys method to set the text in a field, sometimes Test complete adds unwanted period(.) in the middle of the required text (see screenshot). I have some test machines situated in Munich, I see this is predominantly on these machines. Any idea how to handle it?
TestComplete: Desktop app in Cobol and TC crash when I try to ObjectSpy it
I am looking into if I can automate an older company app written in COBOL, 32-bit. I am using TC 15.73 Pro. x86 I am running the app 'As an Admin' alone with TC 'As an Admin' After opening the desktop app, and trying to look at it in the Object Browser tree or ObjectSpy it, I get an app crash along with a TC crash. Any suggestions from folks here on options to try to get this to work? NetCOBOL COBOL ERROR REPORT <<Summary>> The application error occurred: Application : C:\ATOOL\haw$strt.exe(PID=00002138) Exception Number : UNDEFINED_EXCEPTION(C000041D) Generation Time : 03/17/2025(17:37:02) Generation Module : UNKNOWN Time Stamp : UNKNOWN File Size : UNKNOWN <<Detail>> Thread ID : 00001BA8 Register : EAX=000C05F2 EBX=03A68C20 ECX=03A68C20 EDX=00000000 ESI=000C05F2 : EDI=00000360 EIP=00000000 ESP=010FF2F8 EBP=010FF32C EFL=00010246 : CS=0023 SS=002B DS=002B ES=002B FS=0053 GS=002B Stack Commit : 00012000 (Top:01100000, Base:010EE000) [Could not output the machine language code.] Module File : UNKNOWN Address : 6343B530 etc. .....MS Edge 133.0.3065.92 : Downloads window NOT being recognized by TestComplete 15.72
I've asked the question many times over the years and lately I've just gone along with this being broken. I've submitted tickets, it gets addressed eventually, but then some other pop-up window breaks. That pop up issue gets fixed, and the the Downloads is broke again. I noticed in my current code, I've just hard-coded coordinates over the past few releases to click on the 'Save As' button for this unrecognized Edge Downloads window. I noticed lately even that code was broke because the Downloads button layout changed. It is now as such: I need to use 'Save As' to control where my file goes and a name change as well and not use automatic download. I want to throw this question back out to the TestComplete community, Anyone experiencing this issue?testFiltercriteria not applied
Until yesterday test was running fine with the below highlighted test criteria in azure pipeline. After Updating the test agent test are not getting filtered from the execution plan. Execution plan looks like below. From which I am trying to run Menu5_US and its child test items. But the other groups also getting executed. Until yesterday only the specified group in the testFiltercriteria was getting executed in azure pipeline.
System checks for Object for every test
I had two projects in my project suite where one project is created as a base where all my desktop objects and the corresponding action for each and every control is written Controls are mapped in name mapping Scripts are written with Aliases being used I had created the second project where the scripts and name mapping from the first are used as it is and it includes some tests as well It is some kind of framework setup where the first project as a base project ( a kind of page object pattern ) and the second one re-uses the script and name mapping as linked items from the first If I am trying to run tests, each and every test tries to identify the objects that are declared as aliases in each script For example if I have something like var notepadwnd = Aliases["notepad"], the system is trying to find notepad for the default amount of time for each test. My tests are getting timeout as I have atleast 20 application which are like this and TestComplete is trying to find them increasing the test duration and thus failing the test due to timeout Is there anything that I am missing herePerform Action @ position relative to object
Is there a way to perform an action at a position which is relative to the object AND not within the bounds object (perform an action on a secondary object which is located x/y distance away from the initial object)? It looks as if the ClientX and ClientY give error messages if the x-y position is outside of the selected object's bounds. Example: I have mapped the 'Enter Loan Amount' in the name mapping. It is identified by it's text. I want to locate the 'enter loan amount' text box (the one with 10000 in it) with a testComplete feature which would be equivalent to "Perform an Action at a location that is 50 pixels to the right of the 'Enter Loan Amount' label object". Why? Because the order of these rows moves around a lot (as developers design) and I always want to be able to just find the textbox by locating it relative to it's corresponding text located to it's left.Testexecute enters ` or ~ in textbox
When running tests sometimes TC or TE enters chars into a textbox, mostly this char: ` I've seen it enter ~ aswell Example : I can not find where this char comes from, it happens only sometimes and at different moments/tests Anyone have any ideas where this could come from? In this test because it entered a invalid number I get an error screen (from my software) and the tests goes to timeout which stops the entire rest of the project from being run.
