Run Test- TA 7.0, Test run does not execute any steps & test run Status is “Passed”

[Petra]

The test was working fine, but then suddenly stopped executing any steps. The test starts up but immediately finishes and reports that the test passed. Obviously TA does not check the status of its own program health!

X- When I call the test or if I open the file and select “Run Test” in the Test Editor it will not execute any lines of code.
X- If I turn the debugger on and choose “Run Test” it also runs fine.
X- If I choose copy and paste using the client, the new test has the same problem.
X- I closed TA completely and reopened.. same behavior.

Ok- If I click on the first line of the code and choose “run from this step”.. no problems it executes as expected.
Ok- If I manually select the code and cut and pasted into a new test its ok.

Has anyone else seen this type of strange behavior ?????

[KMuller]

Nope, I've seen all sorts of strange / unaccounted behaviour from TA (that I'm trying to get answers about) but never a test that doesn't run, but says that it has.

Sure you've not got the body of the test commented out, or some 'if' condition that it passes over?

[Petra]

I have also seen various instabilities in TA. Usually if I completely close the app and restart, its back to normal, so I just live with it. To answer your questions; No “if” conditions, and I have about 20 or 30 un commented lines in the code. The important distinction is, run from the first line in code or turn debugger on- No problems all un commented lines execute. Turn the debugger off, select “Run Test” and it doesn’t execute the lines of code.

[Petra]

I was mistaken about the test status being recorded as pass. It was the calling test that indicated Pass (even though a called test in that test did not run correctly)

When I run the problem test by itself (using Run" in the TA Client), the Run Time window appears for a split second and closes, the test steps are not run and the Run Record is not updated

[Petra]

I tracked down the problem. The Test Editor will allow you to save a file name greater than 62 char. The test editor can load the filename larger than 62 char, but the test run engine can not handle char greater than 62 I also noticed that Testing Anywhere.exe may crash when trying to run the larger file. This is basic stuff TA… lets get the tool polished up a bit more !!!!

[KMuller]

Nice work tracking that one down! Yes there is definately a lot of room for polishing (or even simpler things) to occur.

[lbrian12]

I had experieced some issue with scripts NOT running when I copied a known running script to a new folder path I had created in TA. The script would just flash real quick and never run but was marked as completed not failed. I found this to be non-repeatable. one day a copy would not work and another it would??? Strange stuff.

[lbrian12]

Polishing is one thing!!! How about debugging?

[KMuller]

I've had ongoing problems with TA passing a test one day and failing it the next, when the application under test had not changed.

Still don't have an explanation for what is going on, can get quite frustrating having to re-learn buttons and controls once they start failing for no apparent reason.

[Petra]

Yup... I was being diplomatic. From what I can tell TA 6.5 came out in July 2010, so its still preaty new