Hey there,
Let's say I have two sites...
http://shopping.mycompany.com/ - Shopping Site
http://admin.mycompany.com/ - Administers Shopping Site
And I have many environments...
http://devshopping.mycompany.com - Developer
http://uatshopping.mycompany.com - UAT
http://shopping.mycompany.com - Released
I want to schedule a test list on a remote machine for the DEV environment to run every night.
I want to schedule the same test list on the local machine for the RELEASE environment to run every night.
Obviously, I want to avoid copy pasting each test for each environment. I created a step to extract text from an input box (either dev, uat, or nothing) and run coded navigation steps. Thus, I must change a test step in this "Environment" test each time I want to run my tests in a different environment. The issue is that I can not simultaneously run my tests at night in multiple environments.
This sounds like a great job for the Base URL option. I'll create a test list for each build and set a different base URL each time. However, i'm experiencing an issue with Base URL.
The base URL for my dev test list is "http://dev" for example. I expect this to then append to "~shopping.mycompany.com" to create... "http://devshopping.mycompany.com". Instead, it attempts to navigate to "http://dev/shopping.mycompany.com", adding a slash.
Is there a way to get rid of that slash?
Let's say I have two sites...
http://shopping.mycompany.com/ - Shopping Site
http://admin.mycompany.com/ - Administers Shopping Site
And I have many environments...
http://devshopping.mycompany.com - Developer
http://uatshopping.mycompany.com - UAT
http://shopping.mycompany.com - Released
I want to schedule a test list on a remote machine for the DEV environment to run every night.
I want to schedule the same test list on the local machine for the RELEASE environment to run every night.
Obviously, I want to avoid copy pasting each test for each environment. I created a step to extract text from an input box (either dev, uat, or nothing) and run coded navigation steps. Thus, I must change a test step in this "Environment" test each time I want to run my tests in a different environment. The issue is that I can not simultaneously run my tests at night in multiple environments.
This sounds like a great job for the Base URL option. I'll create a test list for each build and set a different base URL each time. However, i'm experiencing an issue with Base URL.
The base URL for my dev test list is "http://dev" for example. I expect this to then append to "~shopping.mycompany.com" to create... "http://devshopping.mycompany.com". Instead, it attempts to navigate to "http://dev/shopping.mycompany.com", adding a slash.
Is there a way to get rid of that slash?
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Hi Robert,
Thank you for contacting Telerik. If I understand your problem correctly, you would like to set the BaseURL for multiple environments but are having an issue with the configuration.
I think you are on the right path and simply need to make a minor change. You should enter the entire domain name into the BaseURL field. So rather than entering ‘http://dev’ , you should enter ‘http://devshopping.mycompany.com’ as your BaseURL.
Then you can configure your Test Lists to run in multiple environments using the entire domain name like http://uatshopping.mycompany.com and http://shopping.mycompany.com as the BaseURL.
You cannot prevent the BaseURL feature from adding the slash but if you use the entire domain name, you shouldn't need to.
Thank you for contacting Telerik. If I understand your problem correctly, you would like to set the BaseURL for multiple environments but are having an issue with the configuration.
I think you are on the right path and simply need to make a minor change. You should enter the entire domain name into the BaseURL field. So rather than entering ‘http://dev’ , you should enter ‘http://devshopping.mycompany.com’ as your BaseURL.
Then you can configure your Test Lists to run in multiple environments using the entire domain name like http://uatshopping.mycompany.com and http://shopping.mycompany.com as the BaseURL.
You cannot prevent the BaseURL feature from adding the slash but if you use the entire domain name, you shouldn't need to.
Regards,
Rodney
the Telerik team
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answered on 23 Apr 2013, 03:25 PM
Rodney,
As I explained in the original post, each environment has two sub domains
http://shopping.mycompany.com/ - Shopping Site
http://admin.mycompany.com/ - Admin for the above shopping site
Thus, when I'm working in the "UAT" environment, I need to navigate to...
http://uatshopping.mycompany.com/
http://uatadmin.mycompany.com
So my URL parses like this...
1) Protocol: http://
2) Environment: dev, uat or blank
3) Sub Domain: admin, shopping
4) Domain: mycompany.com
Right now, I have a very round about way of navigating to different environments. I navigate to a site, put the environment into an input field, extract that data, and use that variable in every navigation (coded step), but this is only used in two tests - navigating to the shopping site or navigating to the admin site. This prevents me from running the tests in two environments overnight. It also means that if I forget to change the test over to the other environment before I leave, our regression testing fails.
-Robert
As I explained in the original post, each environment has two sub domains
http://shopping.mycompany.com/ - Shopping Site
http://admin.mycompany.com/ - Admin for the above shopping site
Thus, when I'm working in the "UAT" environment, I need to navigate to...
http://uatshopping.mycompany.com/
http://uatadmin.mycompany.com
So my URL parses like this...
1) Protocol: http://
2) Environment: dev, uat or blank
3) Sub Domain: admin, shopping
4) Domain: mycompany.com
Right now, I have a very round about way of navigating to different environments. I navigate to a site, put the environment into an input field, extract that data, and use that variable in every navigation (coded step), but this is only used in two tests - navigating to the shopping site or navigating to the admin site. This prevents me from running the tests in two environments overnight. It also means that if I forget to change the test over to the other environment before I leave, our regression testing fails.
-Robert
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answered on 23 Apr 2013, 03:55 PM
I should also add that reporting is a bit trickier. If I was able to set a base URL and copy test lists for each environment, my reporting would say "Dev - Test 1" instead of just "Test 1".
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Hi Robert,
Rodney
the Telerik team
Thank you for the clarification. Our BaseURL feature automatically appends a slash after the URL value into the project's BaseURL. I understand the importance of getting this feature to work in your environment but the behavior cannot be changed to prevent a slash from being added.
I've created a feature request for the functionality that you are requesting. You can vote for the feature and view the details at this address: Public URL.
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