How to fix the bitmap that failed to stabilize error?

It may happen that the bitmap might fail to stabilize the error in silk test. It is quite a frequently occurring problem but needs to be addressed seriously. 

Most of the times you might have been asked for or required creating a test case that can be straight-forward put to use in carrying out the bitmap verification. 

You set down to create such a test case and go for the verification of the full window while the recording is in progress. 

During the execution of the test case all of a sudden you get an error as stated below:

“Error: bitmap failed to stabilize”

Finding such an error can even be a nightmare for you and sometimes the whole quality assurance team may fail to think of a solution for this. You won’t even find solution for this in the silk test documentation. 

- There are situations that the bitmap issue might be stated in a described state.

- It is only when there is some instability in the verified windows that is to say that some element of the screen is experiencing frequent changes. 

- In such a situation, the stable copy of the bitmap is captured by the silk test automation tool. 

- If in case it could not get the window tested within a specific time interval, then it generates an exception saying “E _ BITMAP _ NOT _ STABLE”.

- Different approaches to such a situation might be used by the different quality assurance engineers. 

- You need to set the below mentioned options to 0 in the 4test code:

Agent. Set option ( OPT _ BITMAP _ MATCH _ COUNT, 0 )

Agent. Set option ( OPT _ BITMAP _ MATCH _ TIME OUT, 0 )

Agent. Set option ( OPT _ BITMAP _ MATCH _ INTERVAL, 0 )

- Another way of doing this is going to the options menu, then agent, then bitmap and change the required values. 

- Another error occurs while capturing image via the capture bitmap method. 

- In some cases when this method was executed the silk test was observed giving the following error:

“bitmap region size (some coordinate) is not valid”

- In such a case the getrect method can be used for obtaining the coordinates of the bitmap. 

- The getrect method returns the following:

1. X coordinate of the active bitmap
2. Y coordinate of the active bit map
3. Width of the active image
4. Height of the active image

- For capturing an image, one requires two coordinates of the image i.e., (x1, y1) and (x2, y2).

- Here the coordinates correspond as follow:
1. First co-ordinate is for the top left corner of the image whereas

2. The second coordinate points to the right bottom corner of the image. 

- You can even take help of the identify object feature of the silk test workbench for discovering these coordinates. 

- To avoid these errors it is necessary that you fix the screen resolution in the first go itself i.e., using the first script itself using the following function:

Maximize()

- Once this function has been implemented, and then you should go for capturing the screen shot. 

- If this is not done then there are chances that the screen size may keep on changing i.e., it may expand or shrink according to the settings that you made for the previous scripts. 

- This may also cause the coordinates to shift on the screen which may cause the script to capture something else than what was expected. 

- However, the getrect method can return both absolute as well as the relative methods.