Katalon Studio v8.3.0.beta macOS Monterey 12.2.1 I created a GitHub project where you can see the bug reproduced. [image] GitHub - kazurayam/CodeVanishedWhenTestCaseRenamed Contribute to kazurayam/CodeVanishedWhenTestCaseRenamed development by creating an account on GitHub. …

Katalon Studio v8.5.5 still has this bug. I’ve lost 6 scripts in the last two days to this issue before figuring out what the cause was.

macOS 12.6 Katalon Studio 8.3.0 I reproduced this problem. (1) I created a new project (2) I created a test case at Test Cases/sub/subsub/TC1. I wrote the script as follows: import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI WebUI.comment("Hello, I am TC1!") The folder t…

@MarkBC You reported your issue at Why does Katalon Studio randomly erase test cases? . You may find your “seemingly vanished codes” still remain in the Scripts folder with the previous folder names. Please check your project folder tree. You can not check the project folder tree accurately using…

Thanks for the suggestion. I did find the files (using Finder on my Mac) and they existed in the scripts directory, but were 0 bytes long.

@MarkBC I am sorry to hear that the files were 0 bytes long. Anything may be caused by bugs. In order to protect your resources from being erased by Katalon Studio in future, I would recommend you to use Git to make a local backup of your projects. [image] Git for Beginners: The Definit…

I have posted a new one about the same issue: [image] Katalon Studio erased a Test Case code when it was moved, and then renamed Katalon Studio This post follows my previous post: I believe that I have found out a procedure how to reproduce the incident (Test Case code…

[image] kazurayam: Git is really bug-free! You can trust it. i hope yo realize that i can read this as: katalon development suck, dont ever trust. use alternate solutions! @vu.tran any opinnion on this?

Hi everyone, We apologize for the inconvenience. This bug should have been fixed in version 8.3.0 as you can see in the release note . Our team is looking into it and will keep you updated. Thank you!

[image] Shin: This bug should have been fixed in version 8.3.0 as you can see in the release note Mhm … I cannot see any refference of this in the mentioned release notes. I can only see: Bug: Could not update test object references after renaming test objects but this is a different ani…

Thank you for sharing this. We acknowledged the situation and as @Shin has mentioned, we are altering the solution and will keep all users informed.

Script code vanished when a test case is renamed

Bug Report

kazurayam February 10, 2023, 12:40am 22

I have posted a new one about the same issue:

Topic		Replies	Views
Katalon Studio erased a Test Case code when it was moved, and then renamed Web Testing katalon-studio	14	1706	October 28, 2025
Why does Katalon Studio randomly erase test cases? Bug Report katalon-studio , bugs-report	30	1468	June 25, 2025
Retelling "Test Case loses its code when moved over another with the same name" Bug Report katalon-studio	6	176	October 28, 2025
[CRITICAL] After updating to 9.7.2 renaming TC will show error 2. try will delete all steps/code in the TC Bug Report katalon-studio , bugs-report	7	123	October 21, 2024
BUG - Failed renaming test case deletes content Bug Report katalon-studio , bugs-report	15	2207	October 28, 2025

Script code vanished when a test case is renamed

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