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title: "Enforce Test Failure Manually by Choosing a Time Interval"
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updated: 2025-03-27T16:12:29Z
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# Enforce Test Failure Manually by Choosing a Time Interval

The Catchpoint Portal allows you to manually choose to Enforce Failure (Terminate a test run) based on the time elapsed. Catchpoint web tests have a default timeout threshold of 30 seconds. For Transaction tests, the default threshold is 30 seconds **per step**.

If a test run fails to complete within the 30 second timeframe, then the test run is terminated and marked as a failure.

There may be scenarios where the webpage is expected to load beyond 30 seconds, or it may be that a shorter timeframe should be treated as a failure. To support such scenarios, Catchpoint allows you to change the timeout value.

The **Enforce failure if test run is longer than** option under **Advanced Settings** in any **Test Properties** page allows you to specify the timeout threshold.  The available values are **5**,**10**,**15**,**20**,**30 (default)**,**60**,**90** and **120** seconds.

For Transaction tests, this option has the same time intervals as above, but the selection is applied **per step**, such that the overall test fails if/when any single step exceeds the threshold.

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