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mugheessiddiqui
Contributor
7 years ago

Associate TestComplete File with Multiple Test Cases.

  Problem: Single TestComplete Test file is associated with Multiple Test Cases, When I run Test Plan using 'Run Functional Test' of VSTS, it fails with following error message   2018-02-27T17:02...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    7 years ago

    The difference there is that it's direct Microsoft code... In your situation, you're using a, technically, third party tool to run the automation associated with MS VS test cases.  That third party tool associates an interface file (tc12Test) with the test case in a 1 to 1 relationship.  If you were doing everything strictly through Microsoft, then yeah, the solutions on that StackOverflow would apply... but this is not the case.

     

    Bite the bullet... create multiple tc12Test files... each one potentially identical, associate them with your test cases, run the full solution.

Marsha_R's avatar
Marsha_R
Moderator

Not sure what you're referring to as "test file", however...

 

You are probably leaving something open at the end of your TestComplete test - a web page or a database or whatever things you are testing.  This will work in a "run once" test but be completely broken in a "run many" situation.  Make sure everything is shut down at the end of a test run and try the multiple tests again.

mugheessiddiqui's avatar
mugheessiddiqui
Contributor
7 years ago

My problem is tc12Test file fails immediately if it's associated with multiple test cases.
I'm running my scripts on VSTS by using Run Function Test.

  • Marsha_R's avatar
    Marsha_R
    Moderator
    7 years ago

    Let's see the code that fails and show us where it fails, please.  It's difficult to help without more details.

    • tristaanogre's avatar
      tristaanogre
      Esteemed Contributor
      7 years ago

      Actually, this is probably not a matter of the code but of the integration between test files in TestComplete and the Visual Studio test driver.  

       

      You say that your tc12Test file is associated with more than one "Test Case"... define "Test Case".  What does that correlate to in the TestComplete project structure.  Is this a keyword test, a test item, etc?

    • mugheessiddiqui's avatar
      mugheessiddiqui
      Contributor
      7 years ago

      Brother its nothing to do with the code, Its configuration issue I have mentioned if its 1:1 to mapping between tc12Test file and test case then execution successful.

       

      If tc12Test associated with multiple test cases, Test Agent puts both test cases in In Progress State but execution fails with exception I mentioned above. No Test execute log generated.

      • tristaanogre's avatar
        tristaanogre
        Esteemed Contributor
        7 years ago

        OK...  so, you have a single tc12Test file that is associated with more than on Test Case (test case as defined by the test case item in Visual Studio).

        That is probably bad configuration.  The tc12Test file is the mapping of the TestComplete project item(s) to the Test case...  Ideally, it indicates what items need to be run to execute that single test case.  If you need to run a different test case, that should be a different tc12Test file because, usually, there are different test items that are executed for each test case or test items that have different parameters for each test case.

         

        So... you're findings are correct... 1:1 ration of tc12Test file to test case... at least as I understand it.