Re: [qftestJUI] Running multiple .qft using the same running instance of QFT

["Stanley Nguyen" <stanley.nguyen@?.com>]

Thanks.  Please keep me in the loop whether it's back-portable to 1.08.

Regards,


Stanley
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregor Schmid" <Gregor.Schmid@?.de>
To: <qftestJUI-list@?.de>
Cc: "Paul Chiha" <paul.chiha@?.com>; "Stanley Nguyen"
<stanley.nguyen@?.com>; <qftestJUI-list@?.de>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 5:55 AM
Subject: Re: [qftestJUI] Running multiple .qft using the same running
instance of QFT


> Hi Paul, Stanley,
>
> I guess Stanley's point about running multiple .qft files to prevent
> excessive SUT startup is valid. As I said, I've been working on this
> stuff for version 2.0 for in a different context (improved reporting
> including a summary, new concept for Testset/Testcase nodes). I'll
> look into whether the changes that allow running multiple suites in
> one go can be back-ported to 1.08 easily. I'm not sure we'll be able
> to do that for 1.08.2 though.
>
> Best regards,
>    Greg
>
> Paul Chiha <paul.chiha@?.com> writes:
>
> > Yup ... that's all true.
> >
> > You want separate test reports for each test without running Setup &
> > Cleanup on each test.  I don't how to do that.  But I'm sure someone
> > on this group will tell us.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > Stanley Nguyen wrote:
> > > Hi Paul,
> > > Let me understand what you're saying here first before saying it
> > > might not be the solution that I'm looking for.  Your suggestion
> > > would be similar to have these .qft files in different procedures
> > > and just call them up in the main .qft, right?  If yes, then that
> > > does not quite the way I want to make it work.  There are couple
> > > reasons why I need to seperate these test cases and I guess the main
> > > reason is for reporting purposes that we don't want to put
> > > everything into one single file.  Also, there might be a time that
> > > we don't want to run everything in the file and there comes the need
> > > to break them to into smaller, separately .qft.  In your suggestion
> > > scenario, everything would show up under one report.
> > > Thanks,
> > > Stanley
> > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Chiha"
> > > <paul.chiha@?.com>
> > > To: "Stanley Nguyen" <stanley.nguyen@?.com>
> > > Cc: <qftestJUI-list@?.de>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:48 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [qftestJUI] Running multiple .qft using the same
> > > running instance of QFT
> > >
> > >> Stanley,
> > >>
> > >> There's no need to restart your SUT (nor qftestJUI) on each test.
> > >> Just have a sequence which has many procedure calls (stored in
> > >> separate included .qft files) if you want.
> > >>
> > >> Paul
> > >>
> > >> Stanley Nguyen wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I'm using 1.04.0 and the only reason why I want to achive this is
> > >>> saving time to start up my SUT (which takes quite a lot of time to
> > >>> start up/shutdown.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Stanley
> > >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregor Schmid"
> > >>> <Gregor.Schmid@?.de>
> > >>> To: <qftestJUI-list@?.de>
> > >>> Cc: "Stanley Nguyen" <stanley.nguyen@?.com>
> > >>> Sent: Monday, May 30, 2005 8:52 AM
> > >>> Subject: Re: [qftestJUI] Running multiple .qft using the same
> > >>> running instance of QFT
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Hi Stanley,
> > >>>>
> > >>>> "Stanley Nguyen" <stanley.nguyen@?.com> writes:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>>    Hi,
> > >>>>>
> > >>>>>    I wonder if there is anyway to run multiple test suites in
> > >>>>> different
> > >>>>>    .qft files using the same running instance of qftestJUI without
> > >>>>>    restarting it?  In my testing scenario, I want to keep
> > >>>>> qftestJUI alive
> > >>>>>    and automatically load the next .qft file and so on so
> > >>>>> forth...Thanks
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> No, that's currently not possible. If you arrange your tests as
> > >>>> procedures you can create a master test-suite that calls whatever
> > >>>> you
> > >>>> want to run.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Startup time of qftestJUI in batch mode is almost negligible. Why
> > >>>> would you want to run multiple tests in one go instead of calling
> > >>>> qftestJUI multiple times? I've recently implemented that feature for
> > >>>> version 2.0, but for very specific reasons that are not applicable
> > >>>> to
> > >>>> version 1.8. Have I missed something?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Best regards,
> > >>>>    Greg
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