Unanswered

Bug in Testing of Flow

(0) Share

Report

Posted on by omer_farooq

Hi,

When I test the flow using the the Automatic method the result is different than the manual test. I have a simple Flow which is basically get email and forward it with an attachment. The attachment is coming from the original email.

When I manually trigger a test the attachment is sent as is but when I trigger the test using the automatic method the attached just contains the content type as text as show below.

I am not sure why this occurs but I wasted the whole day to test the flow thinking I was doing something wrong to find out that only in the automated tests this issue was occurring.

Categories:

Using flows

I have the same question (0)

All responses (3)

Answers (0)

Pstork1 69,121 Most Valuable Professional on at

Like (1)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!

The Automated test runs based on information and connections available in a previous run of the flow. So one of the common problems in testing is making changes after running a flow and then testing it using a previous run. If the changes you made added actions or connections the flow may not have all the information necessary to accurately run. I've run into this before also. The key is to be aware of the changes you have made and be very conservative about using the automatic option if you make significant changes.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
omer_farooq 3 on at

Like (0)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!

hi thanks for the feedback but I did not make any changes. I think there is an issue with how the attachments are sent in the automatic test. I check both the raw input and the output and they are exactly the same for "Send the email" step.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No
Pstork1 69,121 Most Valuable Professional on at

Like (0)

Report
Copy link

Link copied!

I've done automatic tests that included attachments in the past without an issue. I'm not sure why its not working on your flow, but it does work for me. It might have something to do with the size and number of attachments. Since the automatic is working off stored information it has limited storage space.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No