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sanj
Super Contributor
9 years ago

Caching gottcha! running data driven test steps!

I am just providing some info on something I observed when running a data driven test  Make sure you run data source first by hitting play!     then run the teststep     If you in...
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groovyguy
Community Hero
9 years ago

There's an option in the Data Source options to "Preload data if possible." Also, I've noticed that if the DataSource is in your test case, running the test case as a whole SHOULD initialize the data source. 

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    sanj
    Super Contributor
    9 years ago

    groovyguy would not preload be same as caching so I would still have an issue if just running the test step.

     

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      groovyguy
      Community Hero
      9 years ago

      I believe it would act as caching, but you shouldn't need to run the data source to cache data.

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        sanj
        Super Contributor
        9 years ago

        ok will let you know how it goes.

        I have checked in the the option to preload data.