Hi,
Is there a way to make the test complete project to read a single file (json or csv) that controls all parameter/variable values?
For example, we have different environment to run the test. So we are wondering if we can control the environment it will run in a single file instead of adding conditions in namemapping for the URL?
Yes you can.
In my project, I have the mapped object 'browser' which uses a project variable, it's default value is "chrome",
and the main page uses conditional expression, based on the environment that I use,
I use Storages.INI method to read my configuration file, which consists of a database string, browser (Chrome or Edge), and environment (either http://als.nightly.nonauth..., http://als.uat.nonauth..., http://als.reg.nonauth..., http://als.ps.nonauth..., etc).
I've defined a singleton class (singleton is a design pattern, where we can create only one instance of a class and that instance can be accessed globally) to read the .ini file. This is called at the beginning of all my JavaScript files, to setup up the variables.
Alternatively, you can also use TestComplete Command Line with /PrjVar parameter, to pass in your environment value
Hi rraghvani,
Thanks for your reply.
So meaning, There's no fastest way to add/control the URLs inside the namemapping than to add a condition to all main pages in the mapping?
Because that is exactly what I have shown in the screenshot. (the one posted above is just in edit mode)
here's an example of our current process:
we add a condition for expected URL of the environment it should run and control the environment in a parameter. But since our project is getting bigger, the update process takes a lot of time. We were updating like 20+ sub modules in the project with 30+ pages in each namemapping of that modules whenever there's a new environment that it should run.
You seem to have a lot of pages beneath browser? What is different between the pages?
It's vital to get the mapped object structured correctly.
Yeah. there's a lot of pages under browser. It was auto created by TC upon point-and-fix by the previous maker. And he did not revise the namemapping or even the xpaths of every objects.
example:
http://baseURL.com//page1.html
http://baseURL.com//page2.html
http://baseURL.com//page3.html
http://baseURL.com//page4.html
http://baseURL.com//page5.html
and so on. so in every changes in the URL, it creates a new page under browser.
but now, since the baseURL would change for every new environment, we need to add condition to all pages for new baseURLs.
