Debug using an interactive session

View, interact, and debug any ongoing test session using an interactive session

An interactive session lets you view, interact, and debug any ongoing test session on the Automate platform.

You will learn:

• What is an interactive session
• Supported OS and frameworks
• How to start an interactive session

Overview

As part of running test scripts for testing websites, you may encounter bugs and issues. The typical debugging process involves assessing the logs for clues that might help us mitigate the issues.

Though this seems a logical approach to resolving an issue, it might not work for all kinds of issues. In some cases, where the test fails due to the presence or absence of a visual element that isn’t factored as part of the test script, the verbose logs would fail to help.

Supported OS

The following table lists the supported OS where you can use interactive sessions. The interactiveDebugging capability allows you to debug interactively while a session is in progress.

Enable Interactive Debugging

In order to enable Interactive Debugging you will need to set interactiveDebugging capability to true.

{
  ...
  "run_settings": {
    ...
    "interactiveDebugging": "true",
    ...
  }
}

Start an Interactive Session

To start an interactive session for any test on the Automate dashboard, you need to complete the following steps:

1. Run your test script.
2. Navigate to your ongoing Automate session page and click Start an interactive session.
3. After an interactive session starts, perform any manual testing task in the interactive window on the Automate session page.
4. Stop the manual testing session by clicking Stop Interactive Session.