Catching exceptions but report says module still failed

[ksanowski]

I have a try/catch set up for one of my tests because I have to have @visible='True' in part of my RxPath. The user code has parameters set up to loop 12 times through the try/catch explained below:

• (in a try statement)Ranorex searches for the element
• The search times out because the element is not on screen (@visible='True' failed)
• The timeout throws a ValidationException
• The exception is caught by the catch statement
• The catch statement logs a 5 second delay
• The catch statement hits the PageDown key once.
• The code loops back to the try statement
• If the code hits the final loop and the search fails, the exception is thrown and the test ends.

The try/catch is working perfectly as intended EXCEPT at the end of the test, I get this error logged and the test is recorded as failed:

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I understand that some actions failed but they were caught by the try/catch statement and handled in a way that the test continued. It isn't a MAJOR issue but it does result in the test case listed as failed when, in reality, it was working as intended:

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Is there something I can do that will cause the test to be listed as successful? The screenshot below shows the error message in the report where the try/catch loop is operating until the element is found. The search only needs 10 seconds; the element is found within 0.4 seconds when it is on-screen but the try/catch doesn't hit the PageDown key until the exception is thrown:

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[Support Team]

Hi ksanowski,

The validation > attributeequals method does provide an overload that allows you to disable the thrown exception, however, it is going to report a failure regardless. Disabling the thrown exception will simply prevent the need of a try/catch block.

Note, the Validate.AttributeEqual method specifically returns a bool so you can use a simple if statement instead of a try/catch.

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if (!Validate.AttributeEqual(textelement, "text", "123", "Does not match", false))
	Report.Info("Does not match!");

However, the above still does not resolve your false failure report entries since the report messages occur regardless. I recommend using a get attribute value to check the attribute value yourself as this does not contain any report entries automatically. Once it is successful/fails, use a Report.Fail/Validate.Fail/Report.Success. Here is a small example I hope helps get you pointed in the right direction.

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for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) 
{
	if(textelement.GetAttributeValue<string>("text") == "123")
	{
		Report.Success("Attribute equals 123!");
		return;
	}
	else
	{
		Report.Info("attribute did not  continuing search...");
		Delay.Seconds(5);
	}
}
Validate.Fail("Text attribute never matched 123");

I hope this helps!

Cheers,
Ned