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Using CA Application Test › Using the Workstation and Console with CA Application Test › Building Test Cases › Building Test Steps › Generate Warnings and Errors

Generate Warnings and Errors

You can configure two other types of tests as next steps.

For an example, we have selected the assertion in the Get User step.

Follow these steps:

  1. To open a menu, select a step and right-click on the assertion.
  2. Select Generate Warning.

    The test case will go to this next step (Generate Warning), only when the assertion is triggered.

    Generate Warnings on an assertion menu

Generate Warning Step

When the test step fails, DevTest uses an "Ignore" type of step logic that does not raise an alarm or event (the Generate Warning step). The Generate Warning step does not change the test case workflow.

Generate Error Step

Test steps can either pass or fail. When they fail they do not actually fail the test.

To fail the test, the test step sets the test case workflow to execute the "fail" step. This action implicitly makes the step to be considered as failing.

If they explicitly fail, they generate an error and they raise a NODEFAILED event and then they continue the test step.