Stop current test (or thread)?

[Peter]

Hey all,

I have a third party app that I am currently working on that will run a few of our basic WebAii tests.  I have a button that when a user clicks, it should stop the execution of the tests being run.  This sort-of works, but I want to know if there is a way to stop any current execution of any webaii calls? 

What I do currently is call manager.Dispose() and that will close my browser, causing the test to fail.  I don't like this approach, and would rather be able to say manager.StopCurrentTest() (or something like that)then handle the tests being aborted, then call my manager.Dispose().

Is there any hack to do this?

Thanks!

[Alexey Ivanov]

Hello,

To stop execution of any webaii calls you should kill the test runner proccess (for example, nunit-console.exe)

[Cody]

Hello Peter Pan,

That is a fair question. There really isn't a better way, but I would like to suggest an alternative. First I'm assuming you spawned a secondary thread (a worker thread) to execute the test separate and independent from your UI thread. Have your UI thread set or clear some sort of a global RUN flag when your Stop/Abort button is clicked. Then have your testing thread periodically check this flag. When they see it set they should throw an assert. Any assert will do. That will cause the test to stop right there and do a full and proper cleanup.

Regards,
Cody
the Telerik team

[Peter]

Hey Cody, thanks for the response.  I implemented something similar to what you suggested.  I basically have a ExecuteTest method, in which I first check to see if a cancel test flag is set, if it's not, the test will run.  When the user presses the Stop Test button I set the flag to true, and immediately call a close browser(s) command, which in turn will cause my running test immediately fail.  Now that my flag is set to true, all other tests will be skipped.

[Cody]

Hello Peter,

That sounds like a very good solution to me. I am glad to see you came up with this!

Greetings,
Cody
the Telerik team