SharedPatterns

Shared Patterns

When running AET suite it is possible to use patterns from different suite. Example use case of this feature is when you have a stable environment where you collect the patterns and then check on develop environments what changes were done with new features/fixes. There is very simple and important assumption when using shared pattern feature:

• your suite and master suite must have the same structure.

This mean that your suite have the same tests Suite Structure (name parameter is important here). It is also possible to share patterns only within same project and company (this mean, that company and project parameters should have the same value as in master suite).

Using shared patterns

Let's consider following suite as master suite:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<suite name="master" company="company" project="project">
    <test name="first-test">
        <collect>
            <open/>
            <resolution width="800" height="600" />
            <sleep duration="1500"/>
            <screen/>
        </collect>
        <compare>
            <screen comparator="layout"/>
        </compare>
        <urls>
            <url href="http://www.cognifide.com/"/>
        </urls>
    </test>
    <test name="second-test">
        <collect>
            <open/>
            <resolution width="800" height="600" />
            <sleep duration="1500"/>
            <screen/>
        </collect>
        <compare>
            <screen comparator="layout"/>
        </compare>
        <urls>
            <url href="https://www.google.com/"/>
        </urls>
    </test>
</suite>

When you define your own suite, you should consider the same structure (order is not important). However, you may use different set of Modifiers:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<suite name="green" company="company" project="project">
    <test name="first-test">
        <collect>
            <open/>
            <resolution width="800" height="600" />
            <executejavascript cmd="document.body.style.background = 'green';"/>
            <sleep duration="1500"/>
            <screen/>
        </collect>
        <compare>
            <screen comparator="layout"/>
        </compare>
        <urls>
            <url href="http://www.cognifide.com/"/>
        </urls>
    </test>
    <test name="second-test">
        <collect>
            <open/>
            <resolution width="800" height="600" />
            <executejavascript cmd="document.body.style.background = 'green';"/>
            <sleep duration="1500"/>
            <screen/>
        </collect>
        <compare>
            <screen comparator="layout"/>
        </compare>
        <urls>
            <url href="https://www.google.com/"/>
        </urls>
    </test>
</suite>

When you run green suite use following command to use suite pattern from master suite execution.

mvn aet:run -DtestSuite=green.xml -DpatternSuite=master

This option will enforce AET to use patterns from latest version of master suite. Alternatively, if you want to use patterns from a specific version (i.e. correlation ID) of master suite, use:

mvn aet:run -DtestSuite=green.xml -Dpattern=company-project-master-1495191612345

Remember that master suite must be run before running green suite with pattern or patternSuite option. In other case, running green suite will be treated as running it for the first time.