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chik's avatar
chik
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

Centralized namemapping file shared by many Virtual machines

Hi,

 

In my company we have many virtual machines where Testcomplete are installed. Every machine tests different parts of the same application.

 

Current situation:

Every VM where Testcomplete is installed have his own local namemapping file. Every time when we encounter a new window or component that has not been mapped  on the machine locally we have to map it where it is already namemapped on another machine locally. This is duplication of work.

 

Desired situation:

We want to have some centralized namemapping file/repository shared by many machine where Testcomplete . When one machine add or change  a namemapping it can be updated on other machine. There are also some namemapping that is only intended to be mapped locally.

 

Does someone know whether this is possible in Testcomplete or does someone has another solution as long as have a namemapping that is the same or synchronized over many machines and some namemapping for local only ?

3 Replies

    • tristaanogre's avatar
      tristaanogre
      Esteemed Contributor
      10 years ago

      I would go with the merging over the shared mode but baxatob is correct.. those are your two best options.  Do the merge process and then check in the final merged file into your source control. Then, whenever a user needs to work with TestComplete, they can get the latest NameMapping file and run with it.

      • Colin_McCrae's avatar
        Colin_McCrae
        Community Hero
        10 years ago

        Being able to load name maps on the fly through script as you need them (a feature they added to QTPro just before I left that job and stopped using it) would be awesome. And it would make what you want to do very simple.

         

        Pretty sure there is already an improvement suggestion for it ...

         

        *****

         

        Just had a look .... this must be what I'm thinking of: https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Feature-Requests/Ability-to-share-a-Name-Mapping-file/idi-p/97545

         

        Feel free to upvote it! (It's the lowest name map request at the moment)

         

        But I do notice the top 4 or 5 feature requests are ALL to do with name mapping. Which suggests it's the area people most want to see updated.

         

        And I'd agree with that. The core concept of how name & alias maps are used is great. But their implementation is a little klunky. Object Repositories in QTPro were one of the few areas I felt it had the edge over TestComplete.