Version control and properties

Thank you for posting to our Community Forum.

I am also interested in hearing how other users manage composite projects with multiple properties like bwennekes described.

I suggest you post your ideas to improve the composite projects to our Feature Request forum so that users can vote on whether they agree that this would be a useful feature:

https://community.smartbear.com/t5/ReadyAPI-Feature-Requests/idb-p/ReadyAPIFeatureRequests/tab/popular

I have a possible solution that may mitigate some of the frustrations of the properties. You can check if it is worth using in your project.

Here is a script that I wrote which will set every Property value on the Project, TestSuite, and TestCase level to a blank string. You can put this inside a groovy script of a disabled testcase and run it manually prior to each save.

project = context.getTestCase().getTestSuite().getProject()

testSuiteList = project.testSuiteList
projectPropertyNames = project.getPropertyNames()
if (projectPropertyNames.length >  0){
    for(propertyName in projectPropertyNames){
        project.setPropertyValue(propertyName, "")
    }
}

if(testSuiteList.size() > 0){
    for(testSuite in testSuiteList){
        testSuitePropertyNames = testSuite.getPropertyNames()
        //Clear All properties in TestSuite
        if (testSuitePropertyNames.length >  0){
            for(propertyName in testSuitePropertyNames){
                testSuite.setPropertyValue(propertyName, "")
            }
        }
        
        testCaseList = testSuite.testCaseList
        if(testCaseList.size() > 0){
            for(testCase in testCaseList){
                testCasePropertyNames = testCase.getPropertyNames()
                //Clear all properties in TestCase
                if(testCasePropertyNames.length >0){
                    for(propertyName in testCasePropertyNames){
                        testCase.setPropertyValue(propertyName, "")
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Let me know if you have any questions/concerns.

Have a great day!