squish failed when open popsup menu - qt

I use squish-4.2.2 for testing GUI of our tool and use purecov.i386_linux2.7.3 for covering them. Our tools are based on qt-4.7.4_qsci version of QT. After building our tools in Purecov mode, when we run our tests, they fail if tests contain operation with "popsup menu". Purecov cannot generate the result *.pcv file. Also I would like to note that our tools do not fail when they are run without Squish, however "Popsup Menu" opens not earlier than after 30-60 seconds (in normal mode it is done during 1-2 seconds).
So I have 2 issues:
1. when tests are run with Squish, they fail when tests contain operation with "Menu" item;
2. Purecov does not generate *.pcv file when tests fail.
I tried to find some interesting things on your site for resolving those problems, but I couldn't find anything related to my issues.
In my opinion, Squish failed because when I try to open "Menu" item, GUI runs faster than its logic part, and after opening "Menu" item, Squish considers that operation is done and kills my tool.
Could you please tell me what I can do with my tests or tools for resolving those problems?
Thanks.

I had a similar issue in the past, with clicking menus from my app.
I hope this helps you also!
Example:
I wanted to open a "File" menu, followed by a sub-menu (which is pop-up) "New". When I'm in record mode of Squish, Squish records the following code in python:
activateItem(waitForObjectItem(":MainWindowForm.m_poMainMenu_QMenuBar", "File"))
activateItem(waitForObjectItem(":MainWindowForm.menuFile_QMenu", "New..."))
Now, this didn't worked all the time, honestly I didn't managed to understand why :).
But, I found on their site, this a possible solution. So, I've replaced Symbolic names from the code above, and created a function that calls the objects after Real name properties:
def callMenu(menu_name, submenu_name):
activateItem(waitForObjectItem("{type='QMenuBar' visible='true'}", menu_name))
activateItem(waitForObjectItem("{type='QMenu' title='%s'}" % menu_name, submenu_name))
After I made this change, the tests run smooth, without anymore problems (at least from the menu side).

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Automake/autotools and using "--dry-run" and "--always-make" for make

I stumbled upon an issue when I recently switched to VSCode as editor.
I have several projects that have a full (medium-complex+) autotool
setup and they all work fine. However I discovered that the makefile plugin for VSCode in order to initialize itself (and finding all dependencies and targets) starts by running
make --dry-run --always-make
as first time initialization. This throws the makefile (or actually the
re-config) into an endless loop re-running "configure" (since the targets are never resolved to disk).
I have also confirmed this behavior with the smallest possible autoconf/automake
setup. I can also kind-of understand why this happens (and it seems make
have an internal way to discover this exact situation with the special
variable MAKE_RESTARTS that could possible be used to detect a cyclic
behavior)
Is there a known best-practice workaround ? or is it even a reasonable expectations that these two options in combination should work? (Good to have a second opinion before I go down the rabbit-hole of reminding myself of all the details I forgot about the magical land of autotools)?

Website doesn't build, but works correctly in browser ASP.net

When I build my website project using visual studio 2016 (or any visual studio for that matter), the compiler gives me an error:
However if I go to the code file ResetPassword.aspx the edtEmployeeSurname control is present and it has a runat="server" attribute.
There is also no errors given to me if I open the ResetPassword.aspx.vb code file. (So no red lines under any variable names / Control ID's).
What is really interesting is that the website (Even ResetPassword.aspx) loads correctly from the browser without any issues and I can submit the form.
If I comment out all the code in ResetPassword.aspx.vb then it just finds another control that "Doesn't Exist" and so it carries on with a lot of pages.
All I want to know is:
What causes these issues
How to fix these issues OR how to determine what the issue is.
If this is a common mistake that some developers make then please help me to formulate a search string to use in google, because most of my search results were obscure or off topic.
I've run into this sort of thing before and I believe the errors you are seeing are red herrings. They lead me to believe that one of your lower projects where your user controls are defined, or possibly even lower than that, has a possibly unrelated error in it which is causing it to not be built by visual studio, which in turn makes visual studio think your user controls aren't defined.
What I normally do is build the solution and watch the output window. It will build all of your projects individually, the first error you see pop up in the output window is the source of your problem. Everything else you are seeing is a symptom of that original issue. If you fix the first error that shows up in your output then it will either build correctly or you will have to repeat the process with the next error that pops up.
Visual Studio used to order the errors in the error list in the order that they came up during the build but that has changed, I, personally, really preferred the old sorting(I think there is a setting that you can use to get back to the old sorting but I can't think of it off the top of my head).
From screenshots, it shows you have 50 errors in your project. There is no way an application will run successfully if you have not set to do so.
You could make application run, even if errors.
Check SO post :
Debugging runs even with compiler's errors in Visual Studio
Note:
If you have already cleaned and rebuilt solution,
Try running application in other browser or another computer, may be you have data shown from previous successful result.
Based on the wording of the error, I believe it's possible you are referring to some of these controls outside the code behind of ResetPassword.aspx. The latter part of the message says It may be inaccessible due to its protection level. By default, the backing variable for a control you place on a form is Protected and therefore cannot be seen outside the scope of that control or its inheritance chain.

Taking screenshots on failure using Robot framework

I am new to robot framework. I want to know how to capture screenshots on failure.
Doesnt robot framework automatically take screenshots if script fails?
An example will be of great help!
this is actually a feature of the Selenium2Library that would be required with Robot if you were doing Selenium based tests.
More information can be found here: http://robotframework.org/Selenium2Library/doc/Selenium2Library.html
As it says it the documentation, setting up screenshots on failure is very easy, for example here is mine from a test suite I'm working with:
Library Selenium2Library timeout=10 implicit_wait=1.5 run_on_failure=Capture Page Screenshot
You can use the below keyword to capture screen shot after any of the step you want :
Capture Page Screenshot
Hope so this was helpful!
In this case teardown will be executed once the test case is executed/not executed and if the test case fail, it will take screenshot:
[Teardown] Run Keyword If Test Failed Capture Page Screenshot
Or you can do it even better on suite level if you don't need different teardowns for particular tests:
[Test Teardown] Run Keyword If Test Failed Capture Page Screenshot
So far, all of the other answers assume that you are using Selenium
If you are not, there is a "Screenshot" library that has the keyword "Take Screenshot." To include this library, all you need to do is put "Library Screenshot" in your settings table.
In my robotframework code, my teardowns all just reference a keyword I made called "Default Teardown" which is defined as:
Default Teardown
Run Keyword If Test Failed Take Screenshot
Close All
(I think that the Close All might be one of my custom keywords).
I have noticed a few issues with the Take Screenshot keyword. Some of this may be configurable, but I don't know. First off, it will take a screenshot of your screen, not necessarily just the application that you are interested in. So if you're using this and are allowing other people to view the resulting screenshots, make sure that you don't have anything else on your screen that you wouldn't want to share.
Also, if you kick off your tests and then lock your screen so you can take a quick break while it runs, all of your screenshots will just be pictures of your lock screen.
I'm using this on my Jenkins server as well which is using the xvfb-run command to create sort of a fake GUI to run the robot framework tests. If you're doing this as well, make sure that in your xvfb-run command you include something along the lines of
xvfb-run --server-args="-screen 0 1024x768x24" <rest of your command>
You'll have to decide what screen resolution works the best for you, but I found that with the default screen resolution, only a small portion of my app was captured.
Long story short, I think that you're better off using Capture Page Screenshot if you're using selenium. However if you're not, this may be your best (or only) solution.

Is there a way to generate only the most serious issues in Resharper?

The large asp.net/Telerik reporting project I am now maintaining apparently has so many "issues" that Resharper chokes on it. When I run "Resharper | Inspect | Code Issues in Current Project" it churns away for a good while, then it displays the "Inspection Results - Code Issues in " dialog - with nothing [i,o]n it; it's just a medium gray rectangle.
I surmise this is because there were so many "issues" Resharper just threw up its virtual hands.
Is there a way to filter the results to just the most egregious ones, so those few dozen or hundred will show?
UPDATE
Even in my relatively simple web site that I'm working on at home, Resharper flags over 10,000 things - 99.squeech% of them being .js and .css code that "comes with" the project. With Resharper working like this on web sites/projects "out of the box" it's hard to see the forest for the giant vegetables comprising said grove.
UPDATE 2
I see that even when I right-click a .js file and select "Find Usages" it toils and spins, and then finally invokes the same empty dialog...bizarre...
If you can get the dialog up, then there is an option within it to filter the issues. I would start by adding some of the worst files/folders to the Skip list so that ReSharper will stop analysing them and can at least give you the Code Issues dialog. You can Skip files/folders from here:
ReSharper > Option > Code Inspection > Settings > Edit Items to Skip

Eclipse is telling me a cycle was detected in the building path, but that's not true!

Eclipse is telling me:
a cycle was detected in the build path of -project name-
, although the structure of the project (created by others in the team) does not have cycles.
The same project is deployed on other machines (the same!) and it doesn't give the error.
I need to work from my machine so I need to solve this.
It is giving me the error in 8 different projects.
It was giving me the error in more (10 projects) but with cleaning and building 10 times just changed to 8! (without any changes in the code).
I really need to get this working and cleaning and building over and over is not doing anything. Any tips?
(note: this is not java, this is flex so i can't change the error to warning :))
Thanks a lot!
If it works on other machines but not your own, it must be a "local cache" effect.
You must have an existing library taken into account from a long time, which causes locally the error, while that same file is not present on the other workstations.
Could try and recreate the projects from scratch, on a new empty directory, and see if the problem persist?
If it does (and only then), the exact version of Eclipse and Flex plugin could help.
Try creating a new workspace then import the projects into that.
The problem most often arises after migrating your code. You have always been working on one project at a time, and all the time one of the projects was in a compiled state, so the builder didn’t complain. There is no law of nature that says that code shouldn’t be mutually dependent (it happens within projects all the time), but many builders, also in Eclipse, have problems with this chicken-egg problem and start complaining if both project’s are not compiled: “cycle detected in buildpath”.
Often you’ll get the advise to adjust the severity level of circular dependencies to give only warnings (in Eclipse: Window > Preferences > Java > Compiler > Building > Build path Problems > Circular dependencies), but that’s no real solution.
Make a component-diagram of your projects and their dependencies (I advise to use BOUML, freeware UML-editor, or Rational Rose), and imagine the builder working from right to left starting with nothing. If necessary, make a new project on the right and remove circularities between projects by moving definitions/interfaces that more projects should know of in there. (You could call this a leaf-project, needing nothing else, but the result is not necessarily a tree, it’s a net that you can traverse right to left).
Sorry for reposting. I saw that the text of my earlier answer was scrambled.
The problem most often arises after migrating your code. You have always been working on one project at a time, and all the time the other projects were in a compiled state, so the builder didn't complain. There is no law of nature that says that code shouldn't be mutually dependent (it happens within projects all the time), but many builders, also in Eclipse, have problems with this chicken-egg problem and start complaining if both projects are not compiled: "cycle detected in buildpath". Often you'll get the advise to adjust the severity level of circular dependencies to give only warnings (in Eclipse: Window > Preferences > Java > Compiler > Building > Build path Problems > Circular dependencies), but that's no real solution.Make a component-diagram of your projects and their dependencies (I advise to use BOUML, freeware UML-editor, or Rational Rose), and imagine the builder working from right to left starting with nothing. If necessary, make a new project on the right and remove circularities between projects by moving definitions/interfaces that more projects should know of in there. (You could call this a leaf-project, needing nothing else, but the result is not necessarily a tree, it's a net that you can traverse right to left).

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