Best way to integrate UI.Vision RPA into Cucumber

Ui.Vision General Discussion
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function1(){
–> call macro1
→ check if macro1 run was successful or not

  • The principle is that UI Vision writes a log file after each macro is done, and in the first line of the log is the status (= successful or not). So the first line either has the text “Status=OK” or “Status=error message”. That is very easy to parse.

  • The name of the log file is set with &savelog=abc.txt when you start UIVision via command line.

  • What the code below also does is the throw a timeout error in case it can not find the log file after X seconds. This can happen if UI Vision or the browser crashes. Or the website opened a modal dialog box (which hangs UI Vision as well).

  • See also: How to run UI Vision RPA 24x7

This is how you do this in Powershell. Same code in Python.

    #############Wait for macro to complete => Wait for log file to appear in download folder

    $status_runtime = 0
    Write-Host  "Log file will show up at " + $path_log
    while (!(Test-Path $path_log) -and ($status_runtime -lt $timeout_seconds)) 
    { 
        Write-Host  "Waiting for macro to finish, seconds=" $status_runtime
        Start-Sleep 1
        $status_runtime = $status_runtime + 1 
    }


    #Macro done - or timeout exceeded:
    if ($status_runtime -lt $timeout_seconds)
    {
        #Read FIRST line of log file, which contains the status of the last run
        $status_text = Get-Content $path_log -First 1


        #Check if macro completed OK or not
        $status_int = -1     
        If ($status_text -contains "Status=OK") {$status_int = 1}

    }
    else
    {
        $status_text =  "Macro did not complete within the time given:" + $timeout_seconds
        $status_int = -2
        #Cleanup => Kill Chrome instance 
        #taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe /T   
    }

    remove-item $path_log #clean up
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