I think this depends on how you design your test case.
I think therer are at least two reason why I would like that:
1) Because of failure severity
Something that it's not expected but it's something "blocker" (you want to
keep testing)
and some other failures that if that steps fails the you can't continue
testing the next steps.
(But this depends on how your test cases are designed. )
Example to ilustrate that
//pseudocode
testSmokeTest(){
Homepage.goto(context)
Homepage.smokeTest() ---> (When I see the report I just want to be see the
failures according to the severity)
Homepage.clickCategoryLink(15)
Listing.smokeTest() ---->
}
2)Because of time spent on executions and analysis
Let's suppose you have a Page composed of modules
Homepage
->Module A
->Module B
Module A is composed by a list of links, some links should have some
condition according to the context related to the Homepage you are testing.
So in some cases some links show have de "rel=nofollow" attribute for SEO
reasons. This attribute is a dynamic and depends on the context of the page.
So I would like to create
a Class Homepage with the page logic
a Class Module A with the module logic
on Module A a have a method that is in charged of testing the
nofollowAttributes of the complete module (each link)
So once you create your ui model you can create a test like this
//pseudocode
testNoFollows(){
Homepage.goto(context)
Homepage.moduleA.testNoFollows()
}
It's very explicit and easy to understand what you are testing. And what
your are expecting is not to stop the execution on the first failure. You
would like to see all the links that are failing.
This way you run it once and then you analyse. You fix all the failures and
then you run it again.
The oposite of this is running it once, detect one error, fix that error,
then running it another time fix it the second error, etc. It takes more
time.
Thanks,
Hernan
2009/9/4 Marc Guillemot <[email protected]>
> Hi,
>
> why do you want to continue if a failure occurs? Is it a failure or isn't
> it a failure?
>
> Cheers,
> Marc.
> --
> Web: http://www.efficient-webtesting.com
> Blog: http://mguillem.wordpress.com
>
> Jose Antonio Avila Flores wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> How to continue running step when previous step fails
>>
>> Thank.
>>
>>
>> Jose Antonio Avila
>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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