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Troubleshooting
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL OneTest™ UI.
Troubleshooting in the Functional Test perspective
In this section, you will learn how to troubleshoot the tests in the Functional Test perspective.
Viewing trace files within HCL OneTest™ UI
You can view HCL OneTest™ UI trace files in the HCL OneTest UI integrated development environment (IDE) Error Log view.

Troubleshooting
This guide describes how to analyze and resolve some of the common problems that you might encounter while you work with HCL OneTest™ UI.
- Troubleshooting in the UI Test perspective
  You can find information about the issues or problems that you might encounter while working with HCL OneTest™ UI in the UI Test perspective. Details about issues, their causes and the resolutions that you can apply to fix the issues are described in this section.
- Troubleshooting in the Functional Test perspective
  In this section, you will learn how to troubleshoot the tests in the Functional Test perspective.
  - Troubleshooting functional tests in Mozilla Firefox browsers
    If you encounter problems while testing in Mozilla Firefox browsers, the following workarounds might help resolve them.
  - Troubleshooting functional tests in the Google Chrome browser
    If you encounter problems while testing in the Google Chrome browser, you will find useful information in this section to resolve them.
  - Unable to test eclipse-based applications
    Generally the applications that are enabled for functional testing is in the enabled state after you upgrade HCL OneTest™ UI. If you find any issues while testing the applications, disable the Eclipse application and enable it again for functional testing.
  - Ambiguous object recognition in functional testing
    Ambiguous recognition occurs when HCL OneTest™ UI can not uniquely identify an object in the system-under-test. This commonly happens when HCL OneTest UI cannot differentiate between an instance of the application-under-test started by a script playback and an instance of the same application inadvertently left open previous to script playback. This also applies to identical windows from one application and identical HTML documents. Ambiguous recognition will cause script playback failure unless the duplicate application is closed.
  - Screen snapshot on playback failure of functional tests
    If playback of a script causes an exception to be thrown, HCL OneTest™ UI takes a screen snapshot at the time of the failure. The screen snapshot is accessible through the log.
  - Tips and tricks for functional testing HTML applications
    This topic provides tips and tricks for recording and playing back scripts to test HTML applications.
  - Java applets in HTML pages
    You can test Java™ applets within a browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer). Java applets are not mapped as nested within HTML but are recorded as top-level objects. In the test object map, applets appear at the top level.
  - Standard properties available for functional testing HTML objects
    Standard properties provide a common way to access properties and their values across browsers. This topic lists the standard properties available for HTML objects.
  - Uninstalling HCL OneTest™ UI cleanly
    If you have any issues during uninstall and reinstall of HCL OneTest™ UI, you can perform a few tasks to verify whether the required processes are stopped and all the files are deleted from the computer.
  - Problems with object recognition
    If you encounter a problem with object recognition during testing, you might be able to resolve the problem by following these instructions.
  - Unable to find the correct control by using the Insert Test Object option
    When you try to add a step in the functional test script by using the Insert Test Object option, HCL OneTest™ UI fails to find the correct control.
  - Unable to create a verification point by using the vpDynamic action
    When you run a functional test for the first time to create a verification point by using the vpDynamic("vpName").performTest() action in the test script, the test step fails.
  - Playback fails for functional tests with startApp(param1, param2)
    When you run a functional test for an HTML application by using the Web UI engine that has a test step with startApp(executable, url) to open the application, then HCL OneTest™ UI switches to any active window that is maximized and the test fails.
  - Unable to locate the dataset in a compound test
    When you play back a compound test that contains a functional test script associated with a dataset, the playback fails.
  - Troubleshooting issues in SAP tests
    You can find information about the issues or problems that you might encounter while you test the SAP GUI. Details about issues, their causes and the resolutions that you can apply to fix the issues are described in the following table.
  - Problems with environment enablement
    When it is not possible to record on the application-under-test, you must verify whether the test environment was enabled for functional testing.
  - Handling exceptions
    If an exception occurs during testing, you might be able to handle it by following these instructions. Two common exceptions are the ambiguous recognition exception and the Mutex timeout exception during playback.
  - Collecting HCL OneTest™ UI error logs
    While working with HCL OneTest™ UI, you might encounter some problems that you can easily troubleshoot.
  - Viewing trace files within HCL OneTest™ UI
    You can view HCL OneTest™ UI trace files in the HCL OneTest UI integrated development environment (IDE) Error Log view.
  - AutoPD Collection artifacts in IBM® Support Assistant
    HCL OneTest™ UI, contributes a few files that the Automated Problem Determination (AutoPD) Collector tool in the IBM® Support Assistant application uses.
  - Unable to play back tests when the computer is locked
    The functional test script fails to identify the correct control and the playback fails if your computer is locked during the playback.
  - Frequently asked questions
    This section provides answers to frequently asked questions about HCL OneTest™ UI.
  - Error messages
    This section provides information about error messages that you might encounter with HCL OneTest™ UI. This section lists the error messages by ID, explanation, system action and your response to correct the error message.

Viewing trace files within HCL OneTest™ UI

You can view HCL OneTest™ UI trace files in the HCL OneTest™ UI integrated development environment (IDE) Error Log view.

Before you begin

Complete these steps:

Set the preferences for trace files in the Logging and Tracing page. Click Window > Preferences, expand Functional Test in the left pane, and then click Logging and Tracing.
Enable the generation of trace files by selecting the Enable Tracing check box
Enable the generation of trace files in the Eclipse error log format (.log) by selecting the Generate traces in Eclipse error log format check box.
Specify other details for the trace files, such as the level of detail, allowable file size, number of files to be retained, and the location where the trace files should be stored, and save your settings.

About this task

HCL OneTest™ UI trace files contain debug information which you can use to troubleshoot problems you encounter. You can configure HCL OneTest™ UI to generate trace files in the .txt format, or the Eclipse error log (.log) format. Only trace files generated in the .log format can be imported into the Eclipse Error Log view within HCL OneTest™ UI. After importing the .log trace file into the Error Log view, you can work with the data using Eclipse log filtering operations.

Procedure

In HCL OneTest™ UI, click Window > Show View, and then click Other.
In the Show View dialog box, expand General, and click Error Log.
The Error Log view is displayed as a tab in HCL OneTest™ UI.
In the Error Log view, click the Import Log icon.
Navigate to the directory where the trace files are stored, and select the trace file (rft_trace.log) to import.
The trace file details are shown in the Error Log view.
You can use the Eclipse filter operations to work with the trace data. Right-click a trace data item to open the Log Filters dialog box. You can filter event types, limit the number of visible items in the log, filter events from the most recent session, and enable filters to hide stack trace elements.