You can specify how error conditions are handled when running
a test or schedule. Error conditions
include verification point failures, connection failures, server timeouts,
custom code alerts, and problems with data correlation.
About this task
You can specify error-handling behavior for
schedules, tests, and test elements.
Procedure
- In the Test Navigator, browse to a test or
schedule, and double-click it. The test
opens.
- In the Test editor, complete one of the following steps:
- To specify error-handling behavior for a request or
other elements in the test hierarchy, in the Test Contents section,
select the element and in the Test Element Details section,
click the Advanced tab.
- To specify error-handling behavior for an element such
as a connection, verification point, substitution, or reference, select
the element, and then click Change. Skip to
step 5.
- To specify error-handling behavior for a datapool that
is associated with a test, on the Common Options page,
select the datapool, and then click Datapool Properties.
Click Change. Skip to step 5.
- Under Error Handling, expand Click to
show conditions. The error condition
table is displayed. The error condition table shows all possible conditions
that can be handled by the protocols in the test or
schedule.
- Select the check box next to the condition for which to
specify behavior. A window opens where you can specify
the action to take and the message to log when the condition occurs.
- Select the action to take when the specified condition
occurs.
Option |
Description |
Continue |
Click to continue running the test. |
Exit transaction |
Click to exit a transaction when the specified condition occurs.
Select the Innermost or Outermost transaction,
or type the name of a transaction. |
Exit loop |
Click to exit a loop when the specified condition occurs.
Select the Innermost or Outermost loop,
or type the name of a loop. |
Continue to next iteration of loop |
Click to continue to the next iteration of a loop when the
specified condition occurs. Select the Innermost or Outermost loop,
or type the name of a loop. |
Exit test |
Click to exit the test when the specified condition occurs. |
Exit user |
Click to stop the virtual user that encounters the specified
condition. |
Terminate run |
Click to stop the run when the specified condition occurs. |
- Optional: Type a message to be written to the
test log when the specified condition occurs.
- Click OK.
Example
To stop running a schedule when a substitution
failure occurs in data correlation, select the
Substitution
Failure check box. Click
Stop schedule,
and then click
OK.
The error-handling behavior
that is specified closest to where an error occurs takes precedence.
If a specific request is set to continue if a substitution fails,
and the schedule is set to stop if a substitution fails, then the
schedule will continue running if the substitution fails in that request.