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Saira16
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5 years ago

Run test cases in multiple environments for desktop application

I am working with desktop application. We have around few test cases and these has to be run on multiple environments. We are writing scripts and not keyword tests. By passing path of environment as p...
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  • Reshail's avatar
    Reshail
    5 years ago

    Saira16,

     

    In Azure DevOps there are two ways of doing this that I have tried. 

     

    1) use a command line approach to update your settings file. Something like in the image below

    2) use  the option of giving the input to a variable at run-time. When you click deploy you can set values to your variable but that would require you to manually deploy the stage 8 times. Or add 8 different stages.

     

     

     

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Saira16
Occasional Contributor

I tried by passing values from cmd prompt and use it, it worked with the approach. One issue i have is, i am going to run against 8 instances, which has different paths for opening the file. If i use devops pipeline, then should i handle it?(I am new to devops pipelines also). I have an idea of implementing a powershell script which will run one instance after other, will this work with ci-cd approach by calling the powershell script, i am sorry if this is a basic question, but as i am starting with this ci-cd approach i have so many question?

Reshail's avatar
Reshail
Contributor
5 years ago

Hi Saira16,

 

What I've understood so far is that you want to run your test case on 8 different settings one after another. If thats the case you can add multiple build step for test complete or just write a groovy script to iterate through your settings. You can also use the power shell approach by adding multiple power shells. 

All of this depends on what CI-CD tool you're using. So share that and I am sure someone here will be able to help you.

 

Thanks

 

  • Saira16's avatar
    Saira16
    Occasional Contributor
    5 years ago

    Thanks for your response. I will be using azure devops for both version control as well as pipelines.

    • Reshail's avatar
      Reshail
      Contributor
      5 years ago

      Saira16,

       

      In Azure DevOps there are two ways of doing this that I have tried. 

       

      1) use a command line approach to update your settings file. Something like in the image below

      2) use  the option of giving the input to a variable at run-time. When you click deploy you can set values to your variable but that would require you to manually deploy the stage 8 times. Or add 8 different stages.

       

       

       

      • Saira16's avatar
        Saira16
        Occasional Contributor
        5 years ago

        Thanks for the checking and providing a solution, in jenkins i guess it is possible to do a looping of node, i could not get the same kind of solution for azure. Currently we have to add 8 stages for running these environments.