I’ve written a script for a synthetic monitor that simulates a client buying a subscription to a media website. For this, the client has to log in, go to the subscription store, click on a subscription and fill in the credit card data. I run the test and it says it has been successfull, but I know it’s lying because I don’t get any more logs past a certain step.
We’re reusing code in our monitors, so we define functions for everything. This is the main script:
(async () => {
try {
await getMainLoginFlow();
console.log(`After getMainLoginFlow: ${timeEllapsed()}s`);
await getMainSubscriptionFlow();
await $browser.takeScreenshot();
await fillCreditCardFormFlow();
} catch (error) {
throw new Error(error);
}
})();
The script is getting stuck right into the function getMainSubscriptionFlow. The first thing it does is look for a button:
const getMainSubscriptionFlow = async () => {
console.log('getMainSubscriptionFlow');
try {
await waitSuscriptionButton();
console.log('The suscription button has found');
And the code to search for the button is (used to be) very simple. I’ve changed it to try and debug the problem, but I just can’t find it:
const waitSuscriptionButton = async () => {
console.log('waitSuscriptionButton');
try {
await $browser.wait(
$driver.until.elementLocated($driver.By.className('button-subscribe')),
60000
);
} catch (error) {
throw new Error(`Error while waiting for subscription button: ${error}`);
}
console.log('after waitSuscriptionButton', timeEllapsed());
};
That 60000 timeout started as a 3 second timeout and grew because I was getting a timeout error. At this point, the 60 second timeout never triggers, so I get no error, but I know the execution isn’t going forward because these are the logs I can see when I run the monitor:
It never gets past that initial console.log() inside the function. I added the try-catch block just to be even safer, but I don’t get any errors. It’s just like the script didn’t continue running. What’s going on? Any clues?
