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MarkG123
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7 months ago

Free an Offline Floating License Programmatically

We use TestExecute in our CI environment, with the on-Prem license server to handle our concurrent licenses. We noticed that TestExecute is very reluctant to hand back licenses.  We assumed it would...
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MarkG123
Occasional Contributor
7 months ago

Probably should have mentioned, we are using SessionCreator to run things, and that doesn't have an /exit commandline param like TE does...

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    rraghvani
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    7 months ago

    TestExecute and SessionCreator should gracefully close, in order to free the license. Verify your TestExecute settings are correctly defined i.e. closes on exit (should not appear in the taskbar)

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      MarkG123
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      7 months ago

      How can I check this?  Tests are run via SessionCreator.  There is no /exit commandline option for sessioncreator.

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        rraghvani
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        7 months ago

        The screenshot from this link https://support.smartbear.com/testexecute/docs/running/about.html - select Options from the menu, and then look for something relating to closing on exit. 

        Update - I've had my automation complete after 7 hours, and now I'm getting the following error, even though no other instances of TE are running. Looks to be a bug!