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Re: Being Able to Pause a Test Running in TestExecute
JuliaBernikova , yes it is correct that someone would need to press the "pause" button and then "resume". Yes, we have automation tools such as Jenkins to schdule jobs. All our automated tests are called by this tool. Yes we can rerun failed tests and do if needed. No we don't necessarily need the log to know that there is a problem. I think that BenoitB put it very well, but I'll recap with more information. There are some instances where you know there is a problem with the environement or there is a scheduled maintenance. To add further to my above examples, there are some maintenances that you can't schedule around like an unplanned security patch. We know of these only a few hours before they happen. Also, sometimes as service will fail on an application and to mitigate the issse you have to reboot the entire server with multiple applications on it. Another example would be a known maintenance window, but you don't want to schedule all your tests around this window, so it would be easier just to pause what is running during that window and simply start it back up again after.882Views0likes0CommentsRe: Being Able to Pause a Test Running in TestExecute
Dmitry_Nikolaev , I'm sorry but you do not seem to understand how your product works. We're not trying to debug with TestExecute, we're trying to pause the test without having to restart the whole test run. We have more or less 40 VM's running test excecute through various jobs on different products at all times. Some of the test benches that we built in Test Complete are over 40 hours to run. So if you can't pause TestExecute and a problem happens on the VM, every test just starts failing. But sometimes someone can simply go in and fix the issue on the VM and voila everything would be fine for the the remaining tests. This is a big productivity issue. Also, most problems are not related to the way the tests are built, but more related to the environment. Planned downtimes for file servers, application servers, related resources or anything similar are into this category. So here is a common example: - We schedule a test run to execute on an application at 8:00 pm - There is a planned maintenance on a file server at 11:00 pm for 30 minutes - We would like to be able to pause Test Execute on all VM's during the maintenance window. - If we cannot do this we loose 3 hours of tests per VM, so this could be up to 120 hours lost simply because everything will fail during and probably after the maintenance window.3.4KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Being Able to Pause a Test Running in TestExecute
Dmitry_Nikolaev. I posted this a long time ago and of course there are ways around this. But it's was a productivity issue. We run our tests on virtual machines, they should all be the same, but Windows being Windows, they are not, so debugging environments is something that has to be done. When you want to run a diagnostic on an environment in the middle of a regression test that lasts hours, you either lose your test run or wait... Hitting a pause button would be so simple I can't believe you think it's not an issue. Also, all our tests are designed to reset the environment to it's original state (even the tested application). So if you find a bug and want to see details about the environment at at a certain point, you can't pause the test to do so. You have to go install TestComplete on those machines or try to rerun the steps manually which can be very long. Another one, is when random messages appear for things like Windows updates, Java updates, Adobe updates or any other random crap that can happen. You want to be able to dismiss these and clear out any open windows so that the test run can continue. Again, you either stop the test and start over you have the tests fail because of overlapping stuff. Normally not such of an issue, but when it's the last line of tests on release dates, this is time consuming on an already overbooked date. I can find more, but I'm not the one that deals daily with this anymore.14KViews0likes0CommentsRe: What is the maximum delay for the WaitAliasChild method?
Hi Damien, Thanks for the answer. So I get that there isn't a limit for the wait, but is there a limit for the number that is entered. The difference being that maybe an integer is too big, but the 0 will work to wait indefinitely. For now I'll try the 0, but I'd still like to know if there is a maximum. Thanks, L-P1.5KViews0likes0CommentsWhat is the maximum delay for the WaitAliasChild method?
Hi, I've been using the WaitAliasChild method, but it doesn't seem to be waiting the entire delay that I've set (4700000). What is the max delay that can be set for this method. It is not described in the online help files? Thanks, L-PSolved1.6KViews0likes2CommentsBeing Able to Pause a Test Running in TestExecute
The idea is quite simple, being able to pause a test that is running in TestExecute. I know that you're supposed to be debugging in Testcomplete and that it's so people don't get licenses of TestExecute for development, but being able to pause a tests would be a big plus as some of our tests are very long to run and it would be nice to see if there is a problem on the environment without disturbing tests that are running. I don't think this would be hard to implement from the SmartBear team and it would really help our day to day. All of our QC Devs already have a licencse for TestComplete, but we would really need this to be more productive as we will currently wait for a test to be done to do validations on environments. Thanks L-P18KViews26likes15CommentsGet error level from Jenkins plugin
Hi, This request is to get the error level from the Jenkins TestComplete plugin. Currently if there is an error in TestComplete there is no way to get that error level if it was started through the Jenkins plugin. Because of this we are not using the plugin, as we lose important information such as: - No license available for TestExecute - Project not found / not the right version - TestExecute already started -etc. See the following link for info on exit codes : http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/71544/ Thanks1.7KViews1like1CommentProblem Testing Terminal Services
Hi, My goal is to test our application under terminal services. To do this I must run the application simoultaneously multyple times on the same terminal services server. I want to use the TestComplete Parrallel testing possiblities. The goal is quite simple, I want to run test execute on different sessions on the same machine. I have added the same host twice under the network suite hosts and given them different users/passwords so that they could run at the same time. But when I try to execute the job, TestComplete gives me an error that both hosts within the job have the same address. This is true, but this is also what I want. I want the same machine to execute under two different sessions of terminal services. I don't see a way around this. Please help as our application is oriented towards custormers who have this kind of environment. Thanks L-P724Views0likes0Comments[LoadUIWeb] Simulate File Transfer
Hi, I have a problem with WebLoadUI Pro. I'm trying to load test a website, but in the normal workflow a file has to be uplaoded. But when I go to playback a recording the file transfer itself doesn't seem to be happening. Is this normal? I need this to be simulated during these tests to see if bandwith is impacted with multiple users. Is there a way to simulate this? I tried with Jmeter and this seems to work fine. Would this be a limitation of LoadUIWeb Pro? Thanks, Louis-Philippe1.2KViews0likes3Comments