Report Viewer showing hundreds of WebElement.Exists?

[themoon]

I've been working with UFT for a couple of weeks now and I'm trying to automate some testing for a Web Application.

I'm using descriptive programming to manipulate the website and I'm doing a very small amount of custom logging to modify the end report.

For some reason I can't figure out, I occasionally get an end report that has about a thousand of meaningless "WebElement.Exist" statements.
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In all of my code I am grabbing elements through descriptive programming without an object repository via something similar to:

Code:

checkWebElement = Browser("creationtime:=.*").Page("title:=.*").WebElement("innerhtml:=" & inner_html).Exist

I never turn off the original reporter but I do make a couple of additional checks for every test.  Here is the function I use to report:

Code:

Sub assertAreEqual(value1,value2,action)
    Dim compare
    compare = StrComp(value1,value2,vbTextCompare)
    If(compare = 0) Then
        Reporter.ReportEvent micPass,action, "Arg 1: " & value1 & vbCr & "Arg 2: " & value2
    Else
        Reporter.ReportEvent micFail,action, "Arg 1: " & value1 & vbCr & "Arg 2: " & value2
    End If
End Sub

As I write this I find it fishy that my first line of code above is very similar to my issue but that specific line of code runs only once (and in a different test) than where these WebElement statements are trampling me.

Here is the entirety of my test I'm running

Code:

    search_param1 = DataTable("parameter_1",dtGlboalSheet)               'grabs input paramter
    openWebApp()                                                         'Nothing more than opening IE with a specific URL
    navigateToSearchScreen()                                             'Goes through a couple of websites to arrive on search page
    call populateBox("txtSearchId", search_param1)                       'Fills box with search_parameter value
    submit()                                                             'clicks submit button
    result1 = getPropertyValueFromResults("1","Id")                      'Grabs end value shown on screen
    call assertAreEqual(search_param1,result1,search_by1 & " Check")     'Compares end value with input parameter
    closeWebApp(0)                                                       'Closes browser

Any ideas?

[vinod123]

Use abs_x or abs_y to differentiate the WebElements of the Web Application