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csnider
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago
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Pointing to scripts from keyword tests, then using dataloops

I'm fairly new to test automation.  I've been able to build successful keyword tests with data driven loops.   I'm being asked about breaking out each line in the keyword tests into scripts.  Basic...
  • csnider's avatar
    csnider
    6 years ago

    Thanks for the reply, Marsha.

     

    I ended up doing this using the keyword functionality and it works well.  Small individual keyword tests for app controls that are being tested, parameters inside those small tests, and a datasheet as a variable in the big keyword test (that's made up of all the small tests.)

     

    Works well!  Finally!  :)


    Chris

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csnider
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

Here is a suggested solution:

 

We suggest you create a function and parameterize the file that is being called

 

function main(){
sub("c:\\myfile")  
}
function sub(file_path){
}

 

 

I pasted the above directly into a script file.  Now when I "insert" the "sub" script routine in a keyword test, I'm prompted for the value.  See the attached Word doc with screenshots of how I set it up.

 

I'm not sure what to do from here.  How will the remaining script routines that I pull over into the main keyword test know to use the file I pointed to?  I'll need to specify the columns for each control to use.

 

Very familiar with doing a dataloop in a keyword test, but not this way.

 

Can I please get some hand holding from you gurus?  :)

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    Marsha_R
    Champion Level 3
    6 years ago

    You can use a function if you want it to prompt you all the time but if you want to set the path once and change it occasionally, then put the path into a project variable of type string and use that variable in your other functions. 

     

    In the case of your example you could call the variable FilePath and its value would be c:\\myfile