Hi All,Greetings!I'm curious to know is there any way that we can see some information in Jenkins console about what's happening with the test execution.Now this is what I can see - about launching the TC application and about the closing the TC. But there is not any information about whats happening between this period.It would be good to have at least the Test case info which is being executed like... TC1 - xxxxxTC2 - yyyyyTC3 - zzzzz Any suggestion to achieve this? Thanks

Hi, Exit code 0 means that execution was successful. All data about testing you should find in the testing log.

No, currently TestComplete plugin for Jenkins does not provide such functionality, because TestComplete itself provides the log only after the whole test-run has been completed.

The difference between Selenium and TestComplete that makes it possible to do what you want in Selenium is that Selenium is a set of library code units and such that you bring into other IDE's like NetBeans or Visual Studio in which you build what amounts to an application that you execute which you can then write output to the console, etc. TestComplete is both the IDE AND the executable that runs the tests so you aren't going to get the same type of functionality. Jenkins triggers TestComplete execution but has no visibility as to what's going on inside and simply waits for the application to return from the commandline.

TestComplete doesn't have a console output so even if code is written in TestComplete to write to a console, that console is not visible or accessible externally so there's no access from the Jenkins tool. Again, consider what Jenkins does to execute the tests...it calls a third party application (TestComplete) as a commandline and waits for the exit code to return. What happens in between there is invisible to Jenkins because it's made the call out to TestComplete. If you want a status of what's executing, I would recommend building that into your TestComplete project to write out to some sort of external document, file, or database. Our framework operates off of an SQL database where, as tests are executed, we update a status on the test for the current test run of "NOT STARTED", "IN PROGRESS", "FAILED", "PASSED". So, if I run an SQL query while the test is running, I get a real-time view of the test progress. This is our way of doing it and it might not work for you but this is probably going to be your best option.

Who knows, it may be possible, but my general understanding of the archtecture of the interaction between Jenkins and TestComplete and the general architecture of TestComplete itself seems to lend to thinking that, even if it is possible, it might not be worth it. Look into an external "status" file and see if that works for you.

Printing log information in Jenkins console

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baxatob
Community Hero
6 years ago
Hi,

Exit code 0 means that execution was successful.

All data about testing you should find in the testing log.
- SaravanaKumar_N
  Contributor
  6 years ago
  baxatob
  
  Thanks for your reply.
  
  Yes, we will be able to see all the log information once the test execution is completed. But I would like to know the information during run time within the jenkins console output.
  Let's say the test execution takes about one hour, the information in the jenkins console would help me to know when and what's happening like...
  
  [03:05:08] TC01: xxxx
  [03:13:57] TC02: yyyy
  [03:17:22] TC03: zzzz
  
  In Selenium, if I use java statement - "System.out.println" in the test scripts, those information are available in the Jenkins console.
  
  Since the information about launching the TC application, exiting the application are available in Jenkins console, I'm just wondering is there a way to achieve this in TestComplete.
  - baxatob
    Community Hero
    6 years ago
    No, currently TestComplete plugin for Jenkins does not provide such functionality, because TestComplete itself provides the log only after the whole test-run has been completed.
SaravanaKumar_N
Contributor
6 years ago
Thank you tristaanogre baxatob for your inputs on this.

Clearly we do not have any inbuilt options, so I have raised this as new idea. Lets see if it is feasible... https://community.smartbear.com/t5/TestComplete-Feature-Requests/Printing-log-information-in-Jenkins-console/idi-p/165213#M1678

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