How to react on timeout

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Hi,

We have quite a bunch of Robot Framework tests for our application. We experience random occurrences of failed tests. One of the scenario’s that occurs is that a pop-up is displayed in an overlay with a message that a general exception has occurred. There is a button on this pop-up to display the details.

What I would like to do is that I can start a keyword when a test fails because of a time-out. Because when this happens, I would like to be able to search for the modal pop-up and if it is available, I would like to expand the details and take a screenshot.

Would something like this be possible? Preferably without changing all the tests that we have but instead have this as a suite event or something like that.

Thanks in advance.

Björn

P.S. In addition I would like to have insights in the console logs, but as I read in some other threads this is a challenge on its own…

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Hi Bjorn,

Maybe Wait For Alert is what you’re looking for?

Though you may want to use it a bit differently from the examples, but it looks more like what you are after than Handle Future Dialogs.

Dave.

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Hi Dave,

I have been looking into the documentation for these keywords, but as I interpreted it, it is about browser alerts (like javascript alerts). In our situation it is an overlay Angular component which prevents links etc. from being visible / enabled.

Kind regards,
Björn

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I think that what I’m looking for is Register Keyword To Run On Failure. I’ll have a look at that.

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Hi Bjorn,

Yes you will probably need to combine them.

One question though, can you reproduce this dialogue manually?

The reason I ask is so you can check if the dialogue is actually a browser dialogue or a popup element in the html page (see if you can inspect it’s elements with dev tools).

If its a browser dialogue those keywords I mentioned are the only ones that can interact with it, if it’s in the html then they won’t help and you’ll need the standard Click, etc Keywords.

Dave.

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Possibly helpful for your additional question, maybe this could be of interest: robotframework - How to read the web console output with robot framework and selenium? - Stack Overflow

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Hi Daryl,

Thanks, but I thinkt that the ‘get_log’ only works when using the Selenium library.

Björn

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Hi Dave,

In our scenario the pop-up is a model overlay in the HTML, so not a dialog from the browser. We will be able to handle this using the ‘Register Keyword To Run On Failure’ keyword.

Björn

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Aha, that’s unfortunate, maybe worth a glance at this one:

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Hi Björn,

Lucky you the HTML model overlays are easier and you can get more detail from them with the standard keywords.

Dave.

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Hi Björn,

I just saw Browser Library has Get Console Log which may be useful.

Dave.

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Hi Dave,

Your link to ‘Get Console Log’ doesn’t work for me. The only reference to the console that I can find in there is the documentation of ‘Close Page’.

Kind regards,
Björn

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Hi Björn,

Interesting, it worked for me when I clicked it this morning.

Maybe it’s a new keyword and you need to refresh your browser cache for the Browser Library? (this is a guess) when I go to the top of the documentation the Library version is 16.0.0.

What makes me think it might be a new keyword is I actually picked up the link from this thread: Comments for Get Console Log

Dave.

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Hi Dave,

You were spot on with your suggestion to refresh browser cache. I will use this in combination with ‘Register keyword to run on failure’ to try to get additional info when when our tests run into a problem situation.

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Björn

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