Monday, 3 September 2012

QTP Troubleshooting – Objects not recognized


In ALM11 I’ve had an issue with QTP. When running a test no objects were being recognised in the application. They should be, they have been before, the components work in other tests, but not one test, for no reason. Using the Object Spy I can see QTP clearly doesn’t know what to make of the Browser, thinking it’s just a Windows object.


This is a problem I’ve been dealing with on and off for the last couple of months, and I am pleased to announce that the culprit was a certain Component making an appearance at the start of my BPT Test. Sadly I haven’t worked out what exactly is the reason why this component has sent everything in to a spin, but I am happy enough that I know generally where the failure is, and that it is not with my entire test.

It was a scripted component which did a very simple check on an input parameter.

I have since moved the function from the first to the second step in my test and now everything works again.

If anyone knows about this issue feel free to leave a note in the comments.

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