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mathieuleb
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11 years ago

It is possible to instantiate Test Items?

Hi, I have KeywordTest with some parameters.  And I want to run maybe 800 different  configuration for this test.  So I create a script that fetch the parameters from an XML file to call the test.  It...
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    Marsha_R
    11 years ago
    We put large amounts of data in an Excel sheet and use DDT or DDL from there.  You can choose how many records that the loop sees, so I would either use one sheet with 800 and call the test twice, once with All Records and once with records 1 - 20, or if I wanted a different mix for the 20 records, I would make a separate sheet with just those particular records.



    I'm not sure how the XML as data works, but couldn't you make a smaller one for the 20 records and just call the two separately?  Or do you need it to be a random number of choices out of the 800 every time?





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Marsha_R
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11 years ago
We put large amounts of data in an Excel sheet and use DDT or DDL from there.  You can choose how many records that the loop sees, so I would either use one sheet with 800 and call the test twice, once with All Records and once with records 1 - 20, or if I wanted a different mix for the 20 records, I would make a separate sheet with just those particular records.



I'm not sure how the XML as data works, but couldn't you make a smaller one for the 20 records and just call the two separately?  Or do you need it to be a random number of choices out of the 800 every time?