Test Plan Reference: How to reference a test plan file from relative path

teder.ted · October 23, 2021, 2:50pm

How to reference a file in the “Test Plan Reference” Test Step relatively not absolutely?

brennen_direnzo · October 25, 2021, 6:22pm

@teder.ted where are you seeing a full path? It should always default to a relative path to your working directory, but it is possible to convert from there to a full path.

teder.ted · November 14, 2021, 10:49am

That’s right. I was wrong

brennen_direnzo · November 15, 2021, 7:59pm

No worries. If it is full path you are looking for there are some suggestions here:

andries · August 5, 2022, 12:16pm

The question appears to be answered, but for future reference I’d like to add something:

It is true that the Test Plan Reference path is relative to the location of the editor.exe.

However, a lot of the times your top level test plan is not located in that folder, and you want to reference test plans relative to the top level test plan.

To do this, you can use the variable <TestPlanDir> in the path, which points to the directory of the current test plan. For example:

<TestPlanDir>\..\test_cases\test_my_device.TapPlan

connospp · October 13, 2022, 8:38am

If you want to use this functionality in your own steps do this:

As seen in source code:

github.com

opentap/opentap/blob/main/BasicSteps/TestPlanReference.cs

//            Copyright Keysight Technologies 2012-2019
// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
// file, you can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Linq;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using OpenTap.Diagnostic;

namespace OpenTap.Plugins.BasicSteps
{
    [Display("Test Plan Reference", "References a test plan from an external file directly, without having to store the test plan as steps in the current test plan.", "Flow Control")]
    [AllowAnyChild]
    public class TestPlanReference : TestStep
    {
        /// <summary>

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Test Plan Reference: How to reference a test plan file from relative path

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