Hi, 
 
I have some questions around access to and maintenance of the Scheduled data in the DB.

We have been getting a lot of communication dropped error messages in the Test List log at the point of Publishing The Results after a big Test List run has completed.  Firstly I didn't understand exactly where it was "Publishing?", "What?" and "To?". So I cleaned up all the Results folders on the execution/scheduled server ( currently the same machine ) and found that wasn't the case.  I then thought about the DB which gets created when you first configure a Scheduled Server and found the tables which contains the data which gets displayed in the Run Results Viewer.  I then found that in just a few weeks of running Test Lists, the dbo.test_result_d_b sits at 750,000 rows and is currently 5GB in size.  I believe this is causing crashes when trying to synch results to the server and in turn we on occasion have had to reboot the scheduling server to get it up and running again as a result of this

1. Is there a way to delete this data via the Test Studio UI?
2. Should we be running some kind of maintenance jobs on here to purge this data?
3. Also is it possible to delete all the data from the dbo.run_result_d_b table rather than via the Test Studio UI or at least A Select All as sometimes deleting all data is required and taking an absolute age to do it 1 page at a time!! Currently even once per week we can have a build up of 30 - 50 test lists per day which results in 30 odd pages to go through.

Currently I'm manually updating the hosts file before executing our regression script over multiple servers and environments.  This creates a problem because the browser opens before the hosts file is copied for the specific environment and could point to the wrong server.  Is there a way to prevent the browser from opening at runtime and only open after the initial copy script executes?  Seems like my only option here is to call the script from a .bat file and update the settings before execution.

Thanks!

Edit1: Guess I have to just call it from a bat file.  This is a feature I really miss from QTP, how about adding this to an enhancements list.

Hi,

I have following scenario:

1. Mouse-hover on field and few values will be shown in new left window on mouse-hover (Mouse-hover screenshot).
2. Select any value from values displayed.

While recording script is capturing this step but failing while replay. I observed id changing dynamically and handled that but still no luck.

Failure Information: 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Exception thrown executing coded step: '[Test_CodedStep2] : Click 'ItemMiddleTableCell''.
InnerException:
ArtOfTest.Common.Exceptions.FindElementException: Element Not found!
FindExpression used: 
[class 'Exact' menuItem selected] AND [id 'StartsWith' /contextMenu/ID1294181034889000/ID] AND [radioID 'Exact' 2]

   at ArtOfTest.Common.WaitSync.CheckResult(WaitSync wait, String extraExceptionInfo, Object target)

This element is available in dom (DOM screenshot) loaded while running the test .

Thanks,
Amit

We want to install Test Studio on a server based VM in our Data Center.  To do so requires that we write a run book detailing the installation of all the software (e.g., database, Office, etc.) components beyond the base server build.  It would be great if someone has already done one and would be willing to share it since obviously it is easier to revise one than to create from scratch.

Thanks.
 

See screenshots attached. This has been going on for the last half-hour after a fairly routine 10-minute test. I'll be honest, I'm not terribly impressed with all the problems I've been having with this load testing tool stability-wise. Is there a planned update coming soon that will deal with at least some of the general instability?

I'm running 2012.2.1527.0.

Weird issue we're having with Test Studio: A navigation step that goes to a site that prompts for credentials is prompting for credentials before any steps even execute.

In our test, the navigation is the THIRD step in the test. That's when I'd expect the logon for the site to pop up and for the following "handle logon" step to take care of it.

For some reason, the prompt for credentials happens before anything. Even if I put in a 30 second execution delay as the FIRST step in the test, I am immediately prompted for credentials for the site that is navigated to in the third step.

My homepage is not the site in question.

I can even watch the console that shows you what steps are executing and I can see that the first step hasn't even popped into the console and it's prompting for credentials. The test won't begin until I enter credentials or cancel the dialog.

What's going on here?

Greetings,

I want to create the following test.

IF (Spreadsheet Row 3 = Yes)
THEN
RUN TEST
ELSE
DO NOT RUN TEST

IF (Spreadsheet Row 4 = Yes)
THEN
RUN TEST
ELSE
DO NOT RUN TEST

I know I can insert the data into a field, then validate the field, but it seems like a few too many steps and inputs may not always be available on the page I'm testing.

Edit: I could also iterate through all the variables at the beginning of a test on a page where I know there's an input (or just use Google) and get them inside variables there.

Both options just seem convoluted and time consuming (time to place in input and extract) considering the data is right there in the data bind.

Hope I'm not just missing a basic feature here! 

Regards,
Robert

Hello,

We have an aspx popup control(devexpress control) whiich is a dropdown. When test is executed, it shows the result as Pass but in actual dropdown value is not getting selected. Kindly help.

It is requested that please reply us asap as we have few days left for our trial license and we want to ensure that test studio works for our application before we take a step ahead to buy the license.

Regards,
Glen

We are currently using Test Studio. However, we have a customer of our products that wishes to have visibility into the test results for released builds for purposes of verification. I'm assuming this could be done manually via reports however, ideally, there would exist a web portal within Test Studio which could be exposed such that we could control access to specific build's test results and the detailed steps of those tests.

From what I can gather, the Test iOS & Web Portal product is solely dedicated to mobile testing or can the web portal piece be used in conjunction with Test Studio? Does Test Studio have a Web Portal feature of some sort (I did not see anything in the documentation)? If it does not, I'm assuming we can develop our own portal against the API to query for test results and the details of the test itself?

It seems as though the load testing results database is missing the "Scale" field that can be seen when analysing load test results in Test Studio. This makes it a tedious process to analyse the data using our own reports as the data in the data points doesn't match the result description. Any suggestions for getting around this or is there a fix coming in the future?