Request failed: Context parameter '$HIDDEN1.dnConn' not found in test context

Question

Hi all,

I am in the basic level of Performance and load testing trying to catch up the things by exploring.

I have tried recording the actions of gmail login and sending an test email. After stopping the recording the system says.

Request failed: Context parameter '$HIDDEN1.dnConn' not found in test context

Please help me with this: :)

Answer 1

Hi skorla,

Thank you for posting in the MSDN forum.

Request failed: Context parameter '$HIDDEN1.dnConn' not found in test context

This error generally means that one or more of your parameters which are expected to appear in a request are not getting properly found from a previous request.
I suggest you can try to check it. On the web test toolbar, there is a button called "Promote Dynamic Parameters to Web Tests Parameters ", this process will find data which change from run to run and attempt to fix up your test to deal with it at runtime.
If no help, you will want to check out these blogs post which talks about this issue:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slumley/archive/2007/11/19/debugging-errors-in-load-test.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slumley/archive/2007/04/10/how-to-debug-a-web-test.aspx

Best Regards,

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Jack Zhai [MSFT]
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