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dicas
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

Reload automatically files that are changed outside of TestComplete (e.g another code editor)

Hello, I am working with Visual studio code as text editor for javascript to be able to use some powerful extensions there, but i am annoyed each time i switched to TestComplete i have to reload f...
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  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    5 years ago

    Hi,

     

    > the latest version saved is the one to take

    Not sure I got your description... But in fact TestComplete now implements the 'last writer wins' strategy which effectively means that the one who did not save his/her changes and did not do manual merge in external merging tool loses his/her changes.

    With more details:

    a) Note, that project in TestComplete can be opened not only locally, but also over the network in the shared mode;

    b) Lets consider two users, A and B, (local or remote) who made concurrent change to the same file;

    c) Now user A saves his changes;

    d) User B gets a 'file has been changed' notification in TestComplete and now has two options: to reload the file or do not reload. (Notification dialog is modal one, so user B even has no option to copy the current content of the file to some merging tool for future comparison.);

    e) If user B reloads changed file, then his changes are lost;

    f) If user B does not reload file, but continues to edit and saves his changes later, this means that user A loses all his changes. (Again, due to the modal notification, user A will not be able to preserve his version of the file.)

     

    This was the scenario that I was thinking of when asked you about how do you expect the conflicts to be resolved.

    To my opinion both scenarios are bad and the only good option is do not change project files concurrently. By any means.

     

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dicas
Occasional Contributor

i would expect the last saved file in an editor or testcomplete the latest version. If both are changed, but not saved , the latest version saved is the one to take

AlexKaras's avatar
AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
5 years ago

Hi,

 

> the latest version saved is the one to take

Not sure I got your description... But in fact TestComplete now implements the 'last writer wins' strategy which effectively means that the one who did not save his/her changes and did not do manual merge in external merging tool loses his/her changes.

With more details:

a) Note, that project in TestComplete can be opened not only locally, but also over the network in the shared mode;

b) Lets consider two users, A and B, (local or remote) who made concurrent change to the same file;

c) Now user A saves his changes;

d) User B gets a 'file has been changed' notification in TestComplete and now has two options: to reload the file or do not reload. (Notification dialog is modal one, so user B even has no option to copy the current content of the file to some merging tool for future comparison.);

e) If user B reloads changed file, then his changes are lost;

f) If user B does not reload file, but continues to edit and saves his changes later, this means that user A loses all his changes. (Again, due to the modal notification, user A will not be able to preserve his version of the file.)

 

This was the scenario that I was thinking of when asked you about how do you expect the conflicts to be resolved.

To my opinion both scenarios are bad and the only good option is do not change project files concurrently. By any means.

 

  • sonya_m's avatar
    sonya_m
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    5 years ago

    Thank you for this clear explanation Alex. 

    dicas Does this answer your question?

  • Shedmann's avatar
    Shedmann
    New Contributor
    9 months ago

    Sorry for reviving a 4 year old question but for this functionality to still not be implemented is mind boggling. I don't work in shared mode, i write code in vscode for obvious reasons, i see why some people would like to keep this functionality but not giving us the option to disable it is and always load the most recent version of the file and autosave changes done in TC makes the use of TC only to run scripts very annoying.

    • Shedmann's avatar
      Shedmann
      New Contributor
      9 months ago

      Loop
      {
          IfWinExist, TestComplete ahk_class TMessageForm
          {
              WinActivate
              Sleep 100
              ControlClick, Yes to &All,, , Left, 2
          }
          Sleep 250
      } 
      (script insert on the forums is broken)

      For whom it may concern, this AHK can be used instead.

      Enjoy!