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russelld
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3 years ago
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Automate Test Cases using Task Scheduler

Hi,   I'm trying to automate my test cases using Windows Task Scheduler. The process executes and opens my desktop application but it don't recognize the Alias names that are mapped using Name mapp...
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    Marsha_R
    3 years ago

    As long as the mapping is unique, what you have now should be fine. If the object name changes, as it can on a web page, then you would use a wildcard to address it.

    https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/misc/using-wildcards.html

     

    If the object name is not changing, I would still look for a timing issue. Here are some things to try:

    • Do the Delay again, but put something really long like 2 minutes in the value.
    • Put a breakpoint before the line with the failure and step through to see what's happening in each step.
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    AlexKaras
    3 years ago

    Hi,

     

    As Marsha wrote.

    Personally I don't like those Index, ObjectGroupId and other properties that you used to map the window. They seem to me to be not stable and thus I would try to find some set of unique and stable identifiers for mapped objects.

     

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Marsha_R
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As long as the mapping is unique, what you have now should be fine. If the object name changes, as it can on a web page, then you would use a wildcard to address it.

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/misc/using-wildcards.html

 

If the object name is not changing, I would still look for a timing issue. Here are some things to try:

  • Do the Delay again, but put something really long like 2 minutes in the value.
  • Put a breakpoint before the line with the failure and step through to see what's happening in each step.
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russelld
Contributor
3 years ago

Hi...

Here's what I found...

1. I resolved a minor issue with my name mapping

2. I added a couple delays near the beginning of the Execution plan. I normally set my delays from 500 to 800. Using Task Scheduler I added a delay at the opening script of 15000 & when the program opened another delay of 20000.

3. The user account setup to run the Automated task on our internal server needed access to the files being run. I logged into that generic account and ran the files needed and set the project suite as default for the Internal Server account.

Done a test run overnight and it worked great!

 

Thanks for the help!