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simonaferrara's avatar
simonaferrara
Frequent Contributor
3 years ago

Handling two Projects with common features

Hi,

 

I would like to have a Project Suite with two different Projects, because each one belongs to a different deployment scenario.

But both of them have some common features that involves for example the same images within the Regions store, or some scripts that are common to both projects.

 

But it seems that each Test Complete Project will be independent from the others, so the elements (for example, the Regions and the Scripts) cannot be shared between projects. So, I will have to duplicate them on both project, with the consequence of a duplicate maintenance of them, even for the common parts.

 

Is there a way to prevent this and share some items between different projects? Or do you have an alternative to recommend?

 

Thanks!

Simona

web testing
  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    Champion Level 3
    3 years ago

    For example, you could have a Common project which exposes methods to TestProject1 and TestProject2. Regions can be updated in one place, i.e. the Common project

     

     

    • Marsha_R's avatar
      Marsha_R
      Moderator
      3 years ago

      Agree with rraghvani - go up a level and have a parent project suite to share common items.

  • simonaferrara's avatar
    simonaferrara
    Frequent Contributor
    3 years ago

    Thank you Marsha_R ! 
    This feature is very useful for me! The only limitation that I see for now is that it is not possible to share the images stored within the Regions, because the image is copied to the new project. So, in case the benchmark image will change, it has to be updated on both the projects. Or do you have an idea on how can be easily update automatically both projects when a region image on one of them is changed?

     

    I see that there is an "Update" flag on the region but it seems doesn't regard this scope.

     

    Thanks!

    Simona