What happended:
If Pabot suite hangs for some reason output.xml ends up faulty and the suite is left out of the end report. Resulting possibly a completely successful automation test end result
2024-02-29T17:49:19.3210294Z 2024-02-29 17:49:19.318149 [PID:9580] [2] [ID:9] Process GUI.Project.Step 1 killed due to exceeding the maximum timeout of 1800 seconds
2024-02-29T17:49:19.3216540Z 2024-02-29 17:49:19.318149 [PID:9580] [2] [ID:9] Execution failed in GUI.Project.Step 1 with -1 failing test(s)
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2024-02-29T17:49:20.7292733Z Reading XML source 'robot_results\pabot_results\9\output.xml' failed: ParseError: no element found: line 4544, column 0
2024-02-29T17:49:20.7293595Z Skipping 'robot_results\pabot_results\9\output.xml' from final result
Expected:
A new output.xml would be written with suite setup failing with some appropriate error message.
What happended: If Pabot suite hangs for some reason output.xml ends up faulty and the suite is left out of the end report. Resulting possibly a completely successful automation test end result
2024-02-29T17:49:19.3210294Z 2024-02-29 17:49:19.318149 [PID:9580] [2] [ID:9] Process GUI.Project.Step 1 killed due to exceeding the maximum timeout of 1800 seconds 2024-02-29T17:49:19.3216540Z 2024-02-29 17:49:19.318149 [PID:9580] [2] [ID:9] Execution failed in GUI.Project.Step 1 with -1 failing test(s)
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2024-02-29T17:49:20.7292733Z Reading XML source 'robot_results\pabot_results\9\output.xml' failed: ParseError: no element found: line 4544, column 0 2024-02-29T17:49:20.7293595Z Skipping 'robot_results\pabot_results\9\output.xml' from final result
Expected:
A new output.xml would be written with suite setup failing with some appropriate error message.