Automation Execution Flow

There’s probably a better place for this… A number of inquiries have surfaced as to the ‘nitty-gritty’ of execution flows and controls in terms of failures and early termination.  Here is an attempt to provide some explanation.  Perhaps a more thorough undertaking is needed…

Failure has a way of interrupting the flow of a test execution.  This is necessary in order to prevent unnecessary automation or worse, any misleading false-positives.  The key factors to interrupting the flow of a test execution are:

1. nexial.failFast
2. based.failImmediate 
3. EndIf(...) (flow control) 
4. FailIf(...) (flow control)
5. nexial.failAfter 
6. nexial.resetFailFast 
7. unrecoverable exceptions