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dhundley
Regular Contributor
3 years ago

powershell equivalent of running testexecute with command line arguments

in the SmartBear support documentation is this site https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/working-with/automating/command-line-and-exit-codes/command-line.html   that shows how to run...
  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    3 years ago

    This is the PowerShell command that I use,

     

    Start-Process 'C:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\TestExecute 15\x64\Bin\TestExecute.exe' -ArgumentList """C:\Sandbox\TestComplete\Proj\Proj.pjs"" /run /exit /DoNotShowLog /ExportLog:""C:\Sandbox\Log\index.html"" -Wait

     

    Make sure you use the correct single and double quotes.

  • rraghvani's avatar
    rraghvani
    3 years ago

    The properties for my task schedule looks like,

     

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    I've shown you the commands that I use

     

     

    History showing completed task schedules

     

    Try to schedule a task for .ps1 script that contains only,

     

    Write-Output 'Testing schedule task'

     

    And if that doesn't work, then does the History tab show anything?

     

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rraghvani
Champion Level 3

This is the PowerShell command that I use,

 

Start-Process 'C:\Program Files (x86)\SmartBear\TestExecute 15\x64\Bin\TestExecute.exe' -ArgumentList """C:\Sandbox\TestComplete\Proj\Proj.pjs"" /run /exit /DoNotShowLog /ExportLog:""C:\Sandbox\Log\index.html"" -Wait

 

Make sure you use the correct single and double quotes.

dhundley's avatar
dhundley
Regular Contributor
3 years ago

there did appear to be a double quote missing from the end of your example but once i corrected that, i could manually run the powershell script and it worked exactly as i wanted it to. the problem i'm having now is that i want to created a scheduled task on that VM that runs this powershell script and the scheduled task is not even getting so far as to start running testexecute. does anyone here have some experience with getting powershell scripts to run using Task Scheduler?