Having an issue with VisualAssert not actually doing anything. Here’s the situation:
When my macros (all of them) that use VisualAssert gets to that step, the macro stops but still thinks it is running. It doesn’t show the timeout counter in the top right corner where the UI vision icon is though. The macro just gets stuck in limbo on that step without completing the step nor erroring out. UI Vision gets locked up and just sits on that step “running” forever.
Sometimes I can get the macro to work by closing completely out chrome and starting it up again but it always breaks on the 2nd try and none of my macros will operate again.
It is literally a 2 step macro that goes to the homepage of a site and then does a VisualAssert of the page. I tested and this wont even work on any website. My example is going to:
Also just noting, the UI Icon in the top right that shows the step will display that it is performing Step 2 with the little “2” number under it and just sits there.
I tested both my simple macro and the DemoXClick. Both worked on Firefox. Neither works on chrome.
The weirdest part about chrome is that its not even truly failing. I understand the banner changing would cause it to fail but UI Vision isn’t even performing the 10 second timeout that it is supposed to do. In the past, UI Vision would show a 10 second countdown before ultimately failing. Now it just sits in limbo forever on the VisualAssert step.
Good to hear that it works in Firefox. The Chrome issue is clearly a bug. But I am not sure what it causing this. You could try to uninstall and reinstall UI Vision and see if this helps. And/or maybe try in a fresh browser profile.
Super late reply, my apologies. Just getting back into working on this project.
I have reinstalled UI Vision and I am still running into the problem of it getting stuck on the first “VisualAssert” step.
Is there any other suggestions anyone can give me as to why this occurs? It just locks up on the visualassert step without throwing an error. Are there cookies/add ons that could interfere with UI Vision somehow?
thank you,
-Aaron
Edit I am getting the macros to work with Firefox, but I REALLY need it to work with Chrome.
Probably yes,… and we would really like to know what it is
We had such “works in fresh profile” reports in the forum a few times, but we could never recreate it in our tests. One guess is that some other extension is interfering with UI Vision?
Alright…soo…I tried disabling all other extensions and that did not work. However what DID fix this problem is cleaning my cache.…so some sort of cookie/cache item was conflicting with UI Vision it seems. No idea how to pinpoint what was causing it but that seems to be the issue.
I suppose for now I can get by knowing this next time it crops up. I just hope whatever it was doesn’t crop up frequently as I have several services that use 2-step authentication and I am forced to redo those authentications. Some of which are controlled by other people and I’m at their mercy to let me in again.
So there you have it! It’s something in the cache.
