How to test the Checkpoint Endpoint Security agent?

Hi Alexey,



Thank you for the quick answer! Great!



Your suggestion about accessing to the icon tray worked. I managed to build the test verifying the status of the system regarding anti malware, firewall...etc.



This works in a non-distributed environment (on the same machine where TC is installed).

However in a distributed environment, the behaviour of the test changes.

When using an automatic RDP session, I can t explain why, but the Endpoint Security process (cptray.exe) is not running. Therefore the test fails.

Whereas using a manual RDP session, the same test passes.

Is this related to a configuration option in RDP in Windows or TestExecute/TC that selects the services to start up the RDP session?

Do you have any explanation?



For the testing of scanning feature, I am not able to ask any developer to help me out, since I am using a SW version we bought from Symantec. I need to find out how to set the criterion in my test, how to interpret it into a keyword



Thank you again

Best Regards,

Hi again,



I could not figure out how to solve this.

When all the icons are not shown in the taskbar, the Endpoitn Security icon does not appear.

Therefore I found a workaround where I ensure that on the taskbar always show the icons and noticifications to the user (under Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Notification Area Icons in Windwos 7)

Thus when running Distributed testing, I am able to find the needed icon. I updated the the function RightClickTrayIcon in VB script to suit to my test.

Function RightClickTrayIcon(itemName, menuItemName)



Set tray =

Sys.Process("explorer").Window("Shell_TrayWnd", "", 1).Window("TrayNotifyWnd", "", 1).Window("SysPager", "", 1)

' Get the button to click on

Set icon = tray.Window("ToolbarWindow32", "User Promoted Notification Area", 1)

' Right-click the application icon

icon.ClickItemR(itemName)

' Select an item from the context menu

icon.PopupMenu.Click(menuItemName)



End Function

With regards to the criterion to figure out whether the scanning is finished. A window is displayed by Endpoint Security about the Current status of the Scanning. Therefore, I use the properties of the Progression Bar object displaying "Scanning In Progress(x%)". Once I get the Caption text of the Progression Bar to 100% Completed, the test ends.

This is done with a Checkpoint Properties. This works fine if I wait with a defined delay (like 1h).



However, If I do not want to set a fixed delay, I do not manage to build the step/loop where it checks when this Checkpoint Property has been passed. The Checkpoint Property throws an error I can t manage to catch in Keyword.

So Is there a trick in Keyword to check a property object during a period of time (1h for example) until the condition set up has been verified?

How to do you catch the error thrown by the Checkpoint Property everytime you run it?



I would like to create a test like this below in Keyword where the Checkpoint Properties does not throw an error in the logs and make the test failing



IsScanningCompleted = False

AddDelay = 0



While IsScanningCompleted <> True AND AddDelay < 1h



  if Checkpoint(Object.property.Value) <> True then

        AddDelay = AddDelay + 10000

        Delay (AddDelay)

  else

    IsScanningCompleted = True

  end if



end while



If AddDelay => 1h then

  Log(Issue with Scanning)

  StopScanning

else

  Log(Scanning Successfull)

end if



Thank you for your help again :)

Best Regards



 

Hi Thomas,



I am not very good with Keyword Tests as I prefer a coding approach, but I think that you need to implement it this way:



(By definition, ) checkpoint is designed to verify if the condition is met and in general I like SmartBear's approach when they log verification result automatically.

When you need to wait for some property to get the certain value, you may get this value, compare it with the expected one, delay for some time if the value does not match the expected one and repeat the loop.

In terms of Keyword Tests, I think that in your scheme:

While IsScanningCompleted <> True AND AddDelay < 1h



  if Checkpoint(Object.property.Value) <> True then

        AddDelay = AddDelay + 10000

        Delay (AddDelay)

  else

    IsScanningCompleted = True

  end if



you should:

a) Create a test variable (e.g. with the vProgressPercent name);

b) replace the 'if Checkpoint(...) line with something like this:

  -- Set Variable operation that sets vProgressPercent variable with the Object.property.Value value

  -- If...Then operation that checks if the value of the vProgressPercent variable equals to '100%' (or whatever criterion you use);



Then, after the main While loop you can use the Property checkpoint that will either report success if scan completed or post an error if the scan did not complete within one hour.



Please let me know if the above description is not clear enough.