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nishaa123's avatar
nishaa123
Contributor
8 years ago

Running same Project from different Test Execute.

I have created a Project in Test Complete. I want to Run the same project on 5 different machines through test execute with different data. Could you tell me what is the best way doing it. I am fo...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    8 years ago

    This is where you need to write some code to 

     

    a) detect the machine

    b) read some sort of data file which tells you what tests to run for that machine

    c) queue up the list of tests in an array or something

    b) execute the tests

     

    It's a kind of data driven model where a data source (be it a CSV, Excel sheet, database, INI file, XML file, etc) actually determine which test cases to run.

Marsha_R's avatar
Marsha_R
Moderator

Are you going to be running these tests at different times or are you trying to set up something like overnight testing in five different environments?

nishaa123's avatar
nishaa123
Contributor
8 years ago

Yes running test overnight on five different environments.

  • Marsha_R's avatar
    Marsha_R
    Moderator
    8 years ago

    I agree with tristaanogre's approach to setting up just one project and using variables or something similar to pick the test dataset.

     

    If you want to run the tests one at a time in a row, then just set them as test items inside the TC project with different parameters in the order you want them and run the whole project.  

     

    If you want to run them at the same time in different environments, then you might want something closer to what we use.  Each separate environment script gets the latest application code and checks its own copy of the TC project out and then runs.  In that case, you'll want to pass the parameters in from whatever framework you use (we have Bamboo).  

     

     

    • nishaa123's avatar
      nishaa123
      Contributor
      8 years ago

      Currently we have 5 users executing Test suits at the same time on different devices.

      Our setup is we have cloned the main project to 5 own projects and the data set also be duplicated and saved on different location.

      Each clone pointed to same database but on different location treated as different databse.

      We are using Excel file as a datatset.

      e.g. Main Project uses data set one ,Clone one uses data set two and so on.

       

      Drawback: If anything (Specially Libraries)would be changed in Main Project, we have to make changes in clone projects too.

       

      The reason we have this setup is so that each person executing can run the same test suit or different test suits on different browsers and devices at the same time or execute a run over night.

      With this setup we can turn on and off test cases as needed for each run being done by that user as shown in below chart.

      • tristaanogre's avatar
        tristaanogre
        Esteemed Contributor
        8 years ago

        Again, you don't need to clone them.  Have one copy of your project, have the project point to a folder containing the data set, make that a standard folder on each machine.  That data set would then include, also, for that machine, which test cases to run. Use some sort of DDT loop or other logic that, if it's a particular machine, only run these test cases.  Then use source control (TFS, GIT, Mercurial, etc) to make sure that each machine gets the latest code before they start a test run.