HI, I have common script files which is referenced by almost all projects in my suite. I have saved the common script files in separate location apart from project suite files and i will give reference to tat script files in project using Script|Add Exisiting item. But when i open projectsuite in another pc using testexcute. it cant able to find common script files and the project suite fails to load. how to avoid this problem and which is the bestway to maintain and store common files.

@Murugan SDon't you use SVN repositories? That way the location would not matter, you'd always had the files available.This is my folder structure (all the projects import files from HelperFiles folder):folder ProjectSuiteMaster\HelperFilesfolder ProjectSuiteMaster\Project1folder ProjectSuiteMaster\Project2folder ProjectSuiteMaster\Project3

You have 2 options, you either use it inside testcomplete with microsft TFS or something simmilaror outside (we use tortoiseSVN) .For a begginer, tortoise is really simple, you just need to set up a SVN server in your network, create a repository for your files, and start commiting and updating your files.There are a lot of similar tools, the best one must be GIT, but is not as simple as tortoise to get started.If you have microsoft TFS licenses I think is your best option, there's a million things you can do with it (or so I've heard), but I've never used it.anything else, feel free to ask.

Tortoise is reallt simple, you just have to be careful while merging files, if you don't like the tortoise merging system use winmerge.Testcomplete project and organization files are IMPOSSIBLE to merge, so, if anyone changes them, the rest of the people of the team need to update the file before making any changes.These are the files (they include script and keyword organization files, project variables and options, etc...):*.mds*.tcLS*.pjs*.tcCfgExtender*.tcScript*.tcKDTThis is my advice to work with TC in a team1 Project SuiteSeveral Projects acording to different products or people working in TCAll the helper files imported equally to all the projects as well as testedApps with relative paths and nameMapping file.

I use the same aproach and TE uses the common scripts just fine, are you sure they are there? On the other PC?Don't you notice some really weird behaviour with TE? I'm having a lot of problems running my tests with TE on remote machines...

Hi Guys,When TE doesn't work as expected on Win7 I check C:\Users\glets\AppData\Roaming\SmartBear\TestExecute\9.0\Silent.logIn any case your project's files must be organized the exact same way from one machine to another. They are referenced in the Script.tcScript file and the paths are relative:<Node name="item0000000092"> <Node name="item data"> <Prp name="relpath" type="S" value="..\..\..\Shared\Scripts\SharedUtils.sj"/> </Node> <Prp name="index" type="I" value="92"/> <Prp name="key" type="S" value="{765D03A3-F278-4546-B94E-BA560AA9521F}"/> <Prp name="pluginname" type="S" value="Script"/> <Prp name="type" type="S" value="{291CAE9C-4D20-4F33-8B5F-D48B587F3D65}"/> <Prp name="typename" type="S" value="Script Unit"/></Node>Sincerely

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Colin_McCrae
Community Hero
11 years ago
Odd.

I have a VM with TE on it I use as part of our nightly build process and I've never hit any issues with differences between the two?

And there are differences between the OS's they run on. TC is a 64bit W7 Pro machine. TE is on a WS2008 R2 VM. Project is pulled from source control by the build process so is always up to date. TE is kicked off using a BAT file to start the specific project. All seems to work fine? (Touch wood!)

We use TeamCity for nightly build on this particular project.
jose_pita
Super Contributor
11 years ago
Apart from the OS's differences, it works exactly like mine Colin.

I have a bat that updates the svn repositories and starts the test with TE.

With TC everything works without errors, TE will not find some objects that use name mapping (old tests where I still used it).
simon_glet
Regular Contributor
11 years ago
I am still running TC-TE 9.2 so I am not sure I can help any further.

Sorry guys.
murugans1011
Regular Contributor
11 years ago
Hello guys,

thanks for ur replys. but i m storing common script files in local drive folder. when i open the same project in testexecute in sharedmode the common files are not loaded. also it gives error f"ile not found in random drive letter".i m afraid to save my common file in network driver which is shared by all system. beacuse it slows down execution. is there any workaround for this?
murugans1011
Regular Contributor
11 years ago
hi

never heard of SVN repositories. will u please give more detail about it and how to use it ?
murugans1011
Regular Contributor
11 years ago
Hi Jose,

Thanks for ur reply.

I've heard about TortoiseSVN and Visual Source Safe.Now learning doucments about source control in Tc.after that i ll try nd get back here soon

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