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vthomeschoolmom
Super Contributor
10 years ago

who does your test automation - manual testers or programmer

I am asking if there are a lot of folks out there for whom this is considered an engineering function vs a manual tester's function. Thanks.
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william_roe
Super Contributor
10 years ago
jsc wrote:
william_roe wrote:

  • Product(s) cannot be created with Supplier(s)
  • Purchase Order(s) cannot be created without Product(s)
  • Receipts cannot be created without Purchase Order(s)
  • Sale(s) cannot be created without Inventory (and Customers)
  • Receivable(s) cannot be created without Sale(s)

 

I understand your approach but have a question. How are you restoring your database while the application pool (IIS) is running? I regularly restore the database to certain pre-defined states (i.e. pre-sales) when there is a failure but this requires stopping the web server application pool and killing an application process before a restore can be performed.

 

Are you a Microsoft shop? We use IIS and SQL Server (donning fire suit).

 

.... So we make sure that all services are started properly when login starts.

(in other departments we do similar stuff with MS SQL Server (no problem at all) and Oracle DMBS (bigger and therefore slower to restore)).

Sounds as though our next step is to figure out how to start / stop IIS (via script) and how to terminate / launch applications via script.

 

GREAT DISCUSSIONS!!!

 

 

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jsc
Regular Contributor
10 years ago

we do it like this (Jscript)

 

function startTask(taskname, waitTime)
{
  Log.AppendFolder("startTask: " + taskname);
 

  Log.Message("starting task '" + taskname + "'");

  var oShell = new ActiveXObject("WSCript.shell");
  oShell.run('NET START "' + taskname + '"', "1", true);
  Log.Message("trying to start task '" + taskname + "'");
  Delay(waitTime);
  Log.Message("waited for " + waitTime + " ms");

 

  Log.PopLogFolder();
}

 

Stopping a task is the same. But we combine it with checking afterwards if the corresponding process does still exist. If the process still exists it is just killed. (script as well)