Resuable Login Test

[B]

Hi,

Our team is currently evaluating Test Studio and we were wondering how to go about creating a login test that can accept a user/password and be reused in other scripts?

I've read a few forum posts on this subject and believe the approach is to use the Test as Step / Data Driven approach, however I'm not 100% sure which of our tests I need to modify in Test Studio to achieve this :-) I've attached a picture of the current project structure.

Currently I have a _LOGIN test (with a hardcoded user/password) that is called via Test As Step by both the CreateStringFilter and ViewDashboard tests. I'd like to modify it so CreateStringFilter can use a username & password of admin/admin and ViewDashboard QA/12345.

Is anyone able to outline the steps based on our test structure to set this up?

Cheers,
Brett

[Plamen]

Hello Brett,

In order to achieve this, you need to bind the parent tests to a local or external data source. Then check "InheritParentDataSource" on the login subtest. This will cause the subtest to consume/use all the data offered by the parent test, effectively passing that data in as a parameter for the subtest to use. See the first scenario described in this article for more information.

Regards,
Plamen
the Telerik team

[B]

Great, thanks for that
That helped clarify what I needed to change :-) Got it working now

[Plamen]

Hello Brett,

Glad to hear it! Please contact us again if you have further problems.

Regards,
Plamen
the Telerik team