Switching between Automation Roots?

[Machisperer]

Hi,
The mobile app I'm testing needs to interact with another application on a desktop. In my test cases, user needs to perform certain actions on the mobile app and some other actions on the desktop. So my question is as follows:
Is it possible to programmatically switch between two automation roots (i.e. a mobile device and a desktop) within the same automated test case?

Thanks for any tips or suggestions...

[Support Team]

Hello Machisperer,

Thank you for your post.
In order to switch to a specific endpoint during test run, the following codeline can be used:

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Host.MakeCurrentHost("Name of your Endpoint");

If you want to switch from an endpoint to the desktop, please use the following line:

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Host.MakeCurrentHost("Localhost");

regards,
Stephan

[Machisperer]

Thanks Stephan! Exactly what I needed

[Support Team]

Perfect!
I'm glad, I could help.

Kind regards,
Stephan

[jsmith]

Does anyone have any clue as to apply the lessons above to multiple endpoints? I want to run the same test suite through each of my endpoints, one after the other...

[qwertzu]

Hi,

I would suggest creating a batch file that runs the test on all your endpoints.
In your output folder you can find shortcuts for each of your endpoints.

EndpointShortcuts.png

You can run a test on a specific endpoint if you run the related shortcut.

So in your case, you could create a batch file that executes all shortcuts one after the other.

regards, qwertzu

[jsmith]

Thanks qwertzu, I shall look into that option once I have exhausted my current one. I can switch endpoint programmatically, so I can create a list of my endpoints, and loop through each of those list items, executing the test suite on each. At least, that is the idea.
So far, I have two unknowns:
Unknown One:
Can I run a whole test suite from code? i.e :

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public static void runatest()
        {
        	MyProject.Specific_Test.Start();
        }

This will run one test case (an .rxrec in my case). But I want to run:

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public static void runaproject()
        {
        	MyProject.Start();
        }

This would run a whole .rxtst

Unknown two:
Can I get a list of endpoints programmatically?

Thats where I'm at at the moment, any pointers or advice would be much appreciated.

[jsmith]

Unknown two is solved:

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List<string> available_hosts = new List<string>();
            	
            	
            	available_hosts = Host.AvailableHosts.ToList();
            	
            	foreach( string possibility in available_hosts)
            	{
            		Report.Log(ReportLevel.Info, possibility);
            	}

[jsmith]

Thanks qwertzu, I shall look into that option once I have exhausted my current one. I can switch endpoint programmatically, so I can create a list of my endpoints, and loop through each of those list items, executing the test suite on each. At least, that is the idea.
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But I want to run:

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public static void runaproject()
        {
        	MyProject.Start();
        }

This would run a whole .rxtst

Just revisiting this this morning. Can anyone advise if they have successfully started a whole test suite from code?

[jsmith]

Okay so I have found a solution.
I have created an excel document which lists the name of each of my endpoints.
Then set this document as a datasource for my test case
I have then created a User code to change Endpoint to whatever string I pass in as a parameter.
Then I have bound the data to the recording.
And set the input parameter for the User code call as a variable.

This is working pretty much perfectly.