Squish close my Application after every Test Case

Question

The testing Tool Squish closes my Application after every Test Case, How can I avoid that? I even unchecked "Automatically start the AUT" and start the Application with startApplication(). I also tried the attachToApplication() methode without success!

Thanks a lot my friends

Martin

Answer 1

Basically, if you use Squish by the default or start your AUT using "startApplication", the Squish will terminate the application just after the test case.

Fortunately, Squish has provided a way to fulfill your situation, that is attachToApplication.

When using this way, squish will not terminate the AUT when it finished a test case. Referring to this link: Attaching to running applications. There are three steps to attach the application. I have checked and it works in windows platform, and I guess it will also work for other platforms.

Start the AUT with a certain port. You need to start the application using the squish's application named startxxxAUT, startwinaut in windows. This application is under the directory of where your Squish installed. e.g. <Squish-Install-DIR>/bin/startwinaut

startwinaut --port=8899 c:/Installed/notepad/notepad++.exe

Next step, register your application in squish, you can use command squishserver --config addAttachableAUT note 8899 to register your AUT. Or, you can perform this action with Squish IDE. <Edit>--<Server Settings>--<Manage AUTs...>--<Attachable AUTs>--<Add>. Referring to the screen shot: Please remember that the port number should match the one that you use to start your AUT.

The fininal step, attach the AUT in your script, like below:

def main():
    attachToApplication("note")
    snooze(10)

B.T.W, you can use "subprocess.popen" to execute the command "startwinaut --port=8899 c:/Installed/notepad/notepad++.exe" to start your AUT if you need to start your AUT in an automated way(Not manually typing the command).

Hope this will help you, thanks!