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dmohapl
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago

Is there a way to organize Test Project into "physical" folders on the harddrive?

Hello

ideally I would like to see the following structure: http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/55278/

on my harddrive



In other words, folders created in Project Explorer are just logical and will not be created on the harddrive

While logical organization is helpful when working in Project Explorer, it does not show the obvious organization on the harddrive, nor helps me when generating doxygen documentation for example.

Is there a way to have a "physical organization" of the project as well



In the past I had common components in extensions and individual project suites used them, but I do not want to exercise this approach in my new framework  just yet.

 
  • Hi Dana,

     


    Folders displayed in the Project Explorer are logical, and they are used to organize project items inside TC without changing the actual file structure. This behavior occurs by design, however, we have a suggestion to create physical directories for logical folders - I've increased its rating.


     


    At the moment, you can use Gena's suggestion.

  • karkadil's avatar
    karkadil
    Valued Contributor
    You can create whatever structure on the hard drive, then create folders in the Project Explorer and add units there by selecting menu item Add | Existing Item.



    Will that work? I haven't tried it by myself, but this should meet your needs.
  • dmohapl's avatar
    dmohapl
    Occasional Contributor
    The problem with that approach is that the actual "physical" structure is lost in the "Project Explorer" itself. All one can see there is the actual script file, not where it lives. 



    The above was actually a reason why I do not like an idea of having a separate "projects" for individual components. The structure seems to be lost when I want to share it

    I am sure, my  reasoning behind the request is quite common

    as I believe, any automated framework will have a structure similar to:



    common components for all "test suites"

    components common to an individual test suite

    individual tests in a test suite





     Ideas?
  • TanyaYatskovska's avatar
    TanyaYatskovska
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    Hi Dana,

     


    Folders displayed in the Project Explorer are logical, and they are used to organize project items inside TC without changing the actual file structure. This behavior occurs by design, however, we have a suggestion to create physical directories for logical folders - I've increased its rating.


     


    At the moment, you can use Gena's suggestion.