Kill a process from a test automation Groovy script in Katalon Studio

Question

I want to check if the AUT is opening a PDF viewer and I want to kill the process after test execution is finished. This is the relevant line of code:

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("taskkill /im AcroRd32.exe /f")

The test passes, but the Acrobat Reader is still open.

I thought the problem was that the cmd.exe isn't authorized to kill the process form Katalon Studio so I've set it to always run as admin, as described here.

If I run the

taskkill /im AcroRd32.exe /f

directly from the command line, Acrobat Reader shuts down as expected, but it still remains open if run from the Katalon script.

How can I kill it?

Answer 1

This can help You, remember that arguments should be putetd in "" , "".

String[] arguments = {
    // Arguments for program
}
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(arguments);
pb.inheritIO();

Process process = pb.start();
process.waitFor();
pb.destroy();