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roryLIT
Contributor
12 years ago

Only letting an external file be accessed by one testcase

I have a testsuite of 60 testcases and an external text file with a list of values. I want to run the testcases concurrently. Each testcase will access this file and take a value from the file to use ...
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SiKing
Community Expert
12 years ago
roryLIT wrote:
... I want to run the testcases concurrently. Each testcase will access this file and take a value from the file to use in the test. The issue I'm having is more than 1 test is taking the same value because they are accessing the file at the same time ...

Can you please explain this? If the tests are running concurrently, how can multiple test cases be accessing the file at the same time?