Dynamically exit a loop

[Engage QA]

Hi All,

I'm trying to find a way to dynamically exit a loop before its completed its number of iterations if a certain even occurs. so logically it need to look something like this ..

Loop 20 times

Refresh page

wait 1sec

    If (Text = bob)

          exit loop 

    else

          Loop count ++

end loop

The reason im needing to do this is that we have a cloud service that can 'acceptably' take upto 10mins to process new information if it takes longer than 10mins i want the test to fail, but i don't want the test to wait 10 mins if the data comes back quicker. the data is not pushed to the page but has to be pulled by a page refresh. from the research we've done here we cant find a way to force exit the loop, has anyone done this before? 

Thanks,

Dan

[Boyan Boev]

Hello Dan,

For this purposes it is better to use While conditional step. 

In this case Test Studio will loop until some verification condition fails.

Let me know if that helps.

Regards,
Boyan Boev
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