Working Around Asynchronous Popups

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• Validate the expected page state after dismissing or bypassing the interruption.

Validation workflow

1. Trigger the workflow step that may produce the popup.
2. Wait for either the popup or the normal next-page condition.
3. If the popup appears, validate it and close or dismiss it accordingback to the scenariomain objective.
4. Returnportion of the page.

   Manually adding a focus step prior to each action in places where a modal popup may appear, ensures you can gracefully continue without error or interruption.

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   The following site always displays a modal, at an unpredicted time. The site however discontinues trying to display once the user leaves the main page. The focus action is used prior to the expectedplanned pageaction elementto and continueensure the workflow.

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