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RunTime -> Name cannot begin with '<'

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Jon asked on 27 Dec 2012, 09:47 PM

I have a projec that has recent starting giving the following error when I try and run it:
(note: my other projects work fine)

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Telerik\Test Studio\Bin\ArtOfTest.Runner.exe" list="C:\Automation\Test Studio Projects\AuthAnvil PasswordServer\TestLists\PWS Static Tests.aiilist"

There was an error deserializing the object of type ArtOfTest.WebAii.Design.ProjectModel.Test. Name cannot begin with the '<' character, hexadecimal value 0x3C. Line 1, position 252.

at ArtOfTest.WebAii.Design.ProjectModel.Project.LoadTest(String filePath)

at ArtOfTest.WebAii.Design.Execution.CommandLineRunner.ExecuteListInternal(TestList list, String projectPath, Dictionary`2 publishArgs)

at ArtOfTest.WebAii.Design.Execution.CommandLineRunner.ExecuteTestList(String aiiListPath, Dictionary`2 publishArgs)

at ArtOfTest.Runner.Program.CommandLineExecution(String[] args)

at ArtOfTest.Runner.Program.Main(String[] args)

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answered on 28 Dec 2012, 04:34 PM

Hey Stoich, I figured out the problem. first of all apologies for wasting your time. The project where this problem occured is not one that i've worked on it, the author is away on vacation.

It appears that when checked into subversion there were merge issues that were saved into the file. Unfortunately the error that was displayed was not detailed enough to explain which file was causing the error (maybe that would be a good feature request?)

Anyway after searching through the testlists for issues and finding none, I wrote a small program to scan through all of my tstest files and load them into xmldocuments if they failed to list them.

Here's the code that i used to find the problem area:

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.IO;

using System.Xml;

namespace XMLChecker

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

int testFails = 0;

string[] testFiles = Directory.GetFiles(

@"C:\Your\Project\Directory\Here\",

"*.tstest",

SearchOption.AllDirectories

);

foreach (string test in testFiles)

{

if (!readXMLDoc(test))

{

Console.WriteLine(test);

testFails++;

}

//Wait for user prompt

Console.WriteLine("\n{0}/{1} failed.", testFails, testFiles.Length);

Console.WriteLine("Press Any Key...");

Console.ReadKey(false);

}

public static bool readXMLDoc(string filePath)

{

try

{

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

doc.Load(filePath);

}

catch (Exception)

{

return false;

}

return true;

}

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RunTime -> Name cannot begin with '<'

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