Best practices for storing Test Complete test data?
Hi, I am investigating different methods of storing and retrieving test data and am interested to hear what other users have implemented. Currently I am using spreadsheets for test data. They m...
- If you want to cut down on the number of Excel files, is there any reason you couldn't use one Excel file and multiple tabs? We do that and store it in subversion in the project branch with its own folder.
When the project is checked out, that folder comes along for the ride and then whoever has checked it out can just use Project.Path &"yourfoldernamehere" to get to the file. We've been able to share that way pretty successfully.
Given the choice, I think I would still use Excel over a database, just to keep another level of complexity out of the equation. You have to have access to the database from all test systems and permissions for all the test systems and so on. I myself would prefer not to have to troubleshoot yet another server to get my testing done.
