Creating a schedule for multiple testsuites
Accessing the label of a schedule

Creating a schedule for multiple testsuites

In a continuous integration environment, you need multiple testsuites to run in one go. Molybdenums allows you to group arbitrary testsuites to so called schedules. A schedule is a simple XML file referencing test suites via file: or http: protocol, absolute or relative. It looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<schedule>
  <suite uri="actions/testActionResolving.xml"/>
  <suite uri="async/async.xml"/>
  <suite uri="components/componentTest.xml"/>
  <suite uri="dogfood.xml"/>
  <suite uri="gui/guiTest.xml"/>
  <!-- etc. -->
</schedule>

If you don't want to maintain your schedules manually, you can assemble them automatically from testcases on your file system. This is how it looks in ANT:

  <!--assembling, you could introduce multiple profiles here -->
  <fileset id="schedule" dir="${basedir}/testcases">
      <include name="**/*.xml" />
  </fileset>
  <property name="schedule-list" refid="schedule" />

  <!-- write to file -->
  <property environment="env"/>
  <mkdir dir="${build.dir}/testcases/"/>
  <echo file="${build.dir}/testcases/schedule.xml"
      message="&lt;schedule&gt;&lt;suite uri='${schedule-list}'/&gt;&lt;/schedule&gt;" />
  <replace file="${build.dir}/testcases/schedule.xml"
      token=";" 
      value="'/&gt;${env.line.separator}&lt;suite uri='" />

Accessing the label of a schedule

Single testsuites or schedules grouping multiple suites can have a label. Typically you want to create it from your CI server marking a set of testscripts and eventually more (testcases, testdata, config files etc.) as related and referring to a well defined state later on.

A label can be stored in any Variable using the "storeEval" command and accessing "treeView.label" (a javascript expression):

<selenium-testsuite label="build_trunk_4711" loops="1">
	<test name="testAccessingLabel" desc="outputs label given in scheulde" open="true">
		<command command="storeEval" target="treeView.label" value="myLabel" desc=""/>
		<command command="echo" target="Label is: ${myLabel}" value="" desc=""/>
		<tags/>
	</test>
</selenium-testsuite>

outputs

Tests
testAccessingLabel (19:15:23 - 19:15:23 | 132 ms)

Details
testAccessingLabel (19:15:23 - 19:15:23 | 132 ms)
storeEvaltreeView.labelmyLabel (19:15:23 - 19:15:23 | 81 ms)
echoLabel is: ${myLabel} (19:15:23 - 19:15:23 | 51 ms)

{bgColor:yellow}
Message
Label is: build_trunk_4711
Resolved variables in target:
myLabel='build_trunk_4711'
{bgColor}