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awhawh
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8 years ago

Multiple testers simultaneously writing tests against a project controlled through Source Control

Hi,   I've been developing a TC framework for my company. The intention is to check-in the project through Visual Studio and enables testers to connect to the project through TestComplete's Source ...
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    tristaanogre
    8 years ago

    One thing that you need to make sure of is that, after checking in the latest changes, the tester gets the latest source again.  They aren't going to have exclusively their own test cases only... they will, eventually, end up with the test cases that other testers have added.  Merging of the KeywordTests.tcKDT is actually pretty easy with this in mind.  It's just a matter of making sure that, when you check in, you have your cases add and don't accidentally remove someone elses.  It does take some co-ordination but, to date, with three testers hitting the same KeywordTests.tcKDT file in TFS, we haven't had any problems merging.

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
8 years ago

Actually, we're doing pretty much what you're doing.  The way we have TFS set up is that the "checkout" of items in TFS is not an exclusive lock.  I can check out the KeywordTests.tcKDT file to add a new KeywordTest and so can my collegue.  When we check in, we then merge any changes.

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    awhawh
    Contributor
    8 years ago

    Thanks for your reply

     

    I not totally sure what merging actually means in this instance. If you have in affect two versions of the KeywordTests.tcKDT files, one per tester, each reflecting the tester's own additional test how do you know what version is the most up-to-date or does it simply require close cooperation between both testers?

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      tristaanogre
      Esteemed Contributor
      8 years ago

      One thing that you need to make sure of is that, after checking in the latest changes, the tester gets the latest source again.  They aren't going to have exclusively their own test cases only... they will, eventually, end up with the test cases that other testers have added.  Merging of the KeywordTests.tcKDT is actually pretty easy with this in mind.  It's just a matter of making sure that, when you check in, you have your cases add and don't accidentally remove someone elses.  It does take some co-ordination but, to date, with three testers hitting the same KeywordTests.tcKDT file in TFS, we haven't had any problems merging.

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        awhawh
        Contributor
        8 years ago

        Thanks for this.

         

        Did you mean to say that you should 'get latest' after you've checked in your changes. Wouldn't you want to get latest before you check in your changes so to scoop up other tests that have been added recently and to ensure the latest KeywordTests.tcKDT checked in will reference all tests?