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leeasdf9's avatar
leeasdf9
Frequent Contributor
11 years ago

Possible to run an execution list of Testcomplete Project with Test Execute?

Dear Tanya, Dear Support Team, I just get started with testexecute 9 and would like to run the test complete projects with testexecute on our VMs. I did read article "Run an individual test item...
  • Philip_Baird's avatar
    Philip_Baird
    11 years ago

    Hi, another option, which I have just implemented, is to wrap TestExecute as a COM object in a C# Class Library which also contains an XML file reader.


     


    I can feed it an XML file such as the following


     


    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


    <tests>


    <test type="ProjectItem">


    <projectName>ProjectB</projectName>


    <projectItemName>ODT</projectItemName>


    </test>


    <test type="Project">


    <projectName>ProjectB</projectName>


    </test>


    <test type="ProjectTestItem">


    <projectName>ProjectA</projectName>


    <projectTestItem>ProjectTestItem3</projectTestItem>


    </test>


    <test type="RoutineEx">


    <projectName>ProjectB</projectName>


    <unitName>Unit2</unitName>


    <routineName>testWithParameter</routineName>


    <parameters signature="source,destination">


    <parameter name="source">thesource</parameter>


    <parameter name="destination">thedestination</parameter>


    </parameters>


    </test>


    <test type="Routine">


    <projectName>ProjectA</projectName>


    <unitName>Unit2</unitName>


    <routineName>testUnit2</routineName>


    </test>


    <test type="Suite">


    <projectName></projectName>


    </test>


    <test type="TestByName">


    <projectName>ProjectB</projectName>


    <testName>KeywordTests|KeywordTestUnit</testName>


    </test>


    </tests>


     


    and the XML file reader reads this file and uses a TestExecute COM object to execute each test based on the attributes and elements of each <test>.


     


    It took me ~1.5 days to write something that works, I just have a few Exception scenarios to code in so your friendly neighbourhood developer should be able to whip something up pretty quick.


     


    For mine, this is a lot nicer and cleaner than working with batch files and the TestExecute command line limitations.


     


    Regards,


    Phil Baird

tristaanogre's avatar
tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
11 years ago
Your "list" is simply a folder containing a bunch of items.   You can't run a "folder".  As mentioned, you'll have to create a batch file which, based upon your screenshot, will have 18 different command lines (or more) that, each command line will call a different test item.



You then create a different batch file for each "execution list" that you'd need to run.  As mentioned, via commandline, you can't modify the timeout for the test items.  



Now, I think if you use something like QA Complete or ALM Complete, I think those products have the ability of creating something more like what you're looking for.  I have minimum experience with those products so I'll defer to better experts but, as I understand it, that's what they are intended to do.