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khansen
New Contributor
3 years ago

How to execute a ReadyAPI Data Source Loop Test-Step from Cmdline?

Hello! I'm building a powershell wrapper which takes a few arguments in (URI, test-suite, test-case, xml project path, etc.) to then pass it to the SmartBear ReadyAPI testrunner.bat which calls the ...
Data-Driven Testing
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    khansen
    3 years ago

    The powershell script invokes the testrunner.bat from the ReadyAPI bin from an Azure pipeline. This is to scale API tests within a pipeline with the ability to diagnose any errors in our specific tests.

     

    I also figured out the issue - I had cloned a Test-Suite which contained a Data Source / Data Loop / Test Step which I modified and hadn't changed the Data-Source / Data-Loop names. After changing the names and reselecting the targeted Test-Step and saving the project, I was able to successfully run it as expected.

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nmrao
Champion Level 3
3 years ago
What is the added advantage of having power shell script over the testrunner script?
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    khansen
    New Contributor
    3 years ago

    The powershell script invokes the testrunner.bat from the ReadyAPI bin from an Azure pipeline. This is to scale API tests within a pipeline with the ability to diagnose any errors in our specific tests.

     

    I also figured out the issue - I had cloned a Test-Suite which contained a Data Source / Data Loop / Test Step which I modified and hadn't changed the Data-Source / Data-Loop names. After changing the names and reselecting the targeted Test-Step and saving the project, I was able to successfully run it as expected.