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What is the difference between Validate and Assert-style checks in Ranorex?
Both confirm that the application is in an expected state, but they differ in what happens immediately after a check fails.
| Validate (soft check) | Assert-style / strict check |
| Logs a pass/fail entry in the report. | Also logs a pass/fail entry in the report. |
| With Continue On Error enabled, execution keeps going after a failure. | Stops the current module/test case immediately on failure. |
| Good for checking several independent conditions on one screen in a single pass. | Good for a precondition that makes every later step meaningless if it fails. |
| A failed suite can still show many later, unrelated results. | A failed check produces one clear stopping point, with no misleading later results. |
In practice, teams often use soft Validate checks for a batch of related assertions on the same page (so one failing label doesn't hide the status of five others), while reserving a strict, execution-stopping check for a true precondition - such as confirming a login actually succeeded before attempting any of the steps that assume it did.
A soft Validate check with Continue On Error enabled will, after a failure:
A strict, execution-stopping check is best used for:
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