Ranorex projects and source control : Automation Discussions

[timbuethe]

Hi,

we working with Ranorex and SVN, with three to five developers at the time, and have a hard time managing the project under version control. To prevent conflicts, we ignored (svn:ignore) binaries as well as reports along with their screenshots:

[*] Reports
[*] bin
[*] obj
[*] *.jpg
[*] *.rxlog

After this we got often conflicts in the "*.rxuser" files, so we ignored them too, which seems to work without any problems.
To prevent conflicts on the test suite (".rxtst"), only one developer is responsible for changes in the test suite. An alternative would be to work with "svn lock" on this file.

This is our setup so far, but we still get a lot of conflicts because of:

[*] generated module ids that change
[*] absolute paths in the .rxrec file's references
[*] changing order of references in the .rxsln file

(Disclosure: I'm not a C# / VisualStudio developer and I'm not sure which parts of this are inherent)

My overall impression is Ranorex is not very VCS friendly and some sort of setup instructions are needed. That said, general tips on Ranorex with VCS as well as concrete tips for the mentioned problems would be highly appreciated.

Thanks and regards,
Tim

[timbuethe]

One more item:

The ".csproj" files change very often, because references to the report files are added/removed:

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  <None Include="Reports\LampTableau20110829_142312.rxlog">
    <id>344db829-8d74-4795-8efa-6971d2841785</id>
  </None>

This is very VCS unfriendly, since every developer executes test locally.

[Hermch]

My overall impression is Ranorex is not very VCS friendly and some sort of setup instructions are needed. That said, general tips on Ranorex with VCS as well as concrete tips for the mentioned problems would be highly appreciated.

I have the same opinion. It would be a great help to have some best practices how to manage ranorex with SCM systems.
Some general information would be good. I saw that there are possibilities with tortoise svn, but how to work with other scm systems?

[Support Team]

Hi guys,

I have the same opinion. It would be a great help to have some best practices how to manage ranorex with SCM systems.

One of our customers already wrote a blog about Ranorex and Tortoise SVN. In this blow you will find a few tweaks.
http://noam.kfir.cc/blog/2011/08/30/bet ... subversion

I saw that there are possibilities with tortoise svn, but how to work with other scm systems?

We have also a source bridge for TFS on our road-map.

My overall impression is Ranorex is not very VCS friendly and some sort of setup instructions are needed. That said, general tips on Ranorex with VCS as well as concrete tips for the mentioned problems would be highly appreciated.

We've planned to release a blog to work with Ranorex and SVN. We know that's hard to merge the xml files and we try to improve this, that it is more comfortable for the user.
As first instance I will add a bug to remove the Report Files from the csproj file.

Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Team

[Hermch]

We've planned to release a blog to work with Ranorex and SVN.

Are there any news on this topic?

[Support Team]

Hi,

The Blog is not released so far.
We are working on this.
Thank you for your patience.

Regards,
Martin
Ranorex Support Team

[thomasn]

We have also a source bridge for TFS on our road-map.

Do you know when this will be? This is the main factor preventing our company from buying multiple licences. We are trying to hack together something with SVN Bridge but if you are doing this soon it would be incredible. The blog has an article however it is not an easy process and it would be nice to edit inside the testing client. Thanks

[Support Team]

Hi,

The source bridge for TFS should be available with Ranorex 3.3. But I cannot tell you when this version will be released. About the blog "Ranorex with SVN", this blog is in process and should be available in the end of this month.

Regards,
Peter
Ranorex Team