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Sahall0308
New Contributor
8 months ago

Referencing the Keyword Test

Hello, Apologies, I'm fairly new to Test Complete. I'm having an issue attempting to reference the Keyword Test that my function is being called from, thus not being able to access it's variables or...
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    Sahall0308
    8 months ago

    It was for adding an indeterminate level of variables based on what was given as the parameter and to use a for loop to list through each one and perform an action based on this. It's pretty niche to this situation, so apologies for the confusion!

    I did manage to get it working, I'd just stupidly not added my test as a test item in the test execution plan, hence why it was returning as null.

    So my solution was using Project.TestItems.Current.Name and adding the Keyword Test to the execution plan and running it from there to return the current Keyword Test Name.

    Thank you for your reply :)

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Sahall0308
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In this example, I'm taking a parameter that I'm delimiting into separate objects and then adding each as a variable to my keyword test. On the KeywordTests.myKeywordTestName lines, I'm stating the specific Keyword Test that I want to add the variables to.

I'm wondering if I can replace the specific KeywordTest name with something more generic for whichever Keyword Test I'm calling this from, so I don't have to have a function or a ton of logic for all of the various Keyword Tests I might be calling this from.

So instead of KeywordTests.AddNewStockItemAddLocation.Variables.AddVariable I could write KeywordTests.CurrentKeywordTest.Variables.AddVariable. Or at the very least, be able to access the name of the Keyword Test in some way to eventually achieve the same outcome.

 

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rraghvani
Champion Level 3
8 months ago

I'm a bit confused as to why you need to create variables for your keyword tests, like how you have shown?

 

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    Sahall0308
    New Contributor
    8 months ago

    It was for adding an indeterminate level of variables based on what was given as the parameter and to use a for loop to list through each one and perform an action based on this. It's pretty niche to this situation, so apologies for the confusion!

    I did manage to get it working, I'd just stupidly not added my test as a test item in the test execution plan, hence why it was returning as null.

    So my solution was using Project.TestItems.Current.Name and adding the Keyword Test to the execution plan and running it from there to return the current Keyword Test Name.

    Thank you for your reply :)