How to build Test Plan via CLI

reelthymeos · November 16, 2022, 1:15pm

Hi,

Is there an instructional video or portion of the development documentation that anyone can point me to which explains how to develop test plans using the CLI? (also, is a TestPlan an XML document, a built object?)

Thanks

rolf_madsen · November 16, 2022, 2:27pm

Hi @reelthymeos and welcome to the forum.

If you just want to use the CLI for editing test plans, I suggest you install the text based user interface (TUI).

It is not in a release version yet, but you can download it doing tap package install TUI --version rc.

Run it by executing tap tui.

You can also edit the XML test plans by hand but this is generally not very easy.

brennen_direnzo · November 16, 2022, 2:39pm

And just so you have all the options you can also just use the OpenTAP API. There is a simple example here:

github.com

opentap/opentap/blob/main/sdk/Examples/TestPlanExecution/BuildTestPlan.Api/Program.cs

//Copyright 2012-2019 Keysight Technologies
//
//Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
//you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
//You may obtain a copy of the License at
//
//http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
//
//Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
//distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
//WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
//See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
//limitations under the License.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using OpenTap;
using OpenTap.Plugins.BasicSteps;

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reelthymeos · November 16, 2022, 6:22pm

Thanks for both of your suggestions! This is very helpful. It’s also great to know that everything can be done programmatically using the API. I will first test drive editor.exe and the TUI, then take a look at programmatically doing it.

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