Run QTP TestSet from REST

Question

Does anyone have an xml block that will run a test suite (an example of twisting will be great)?

The REST documentation in HP-ALM does not show how to run a test suite from REST. There is a description of how to create a defect. The second problem is that the docs indicate that the required fields include cyc_id and testcycl_id, for which I cannot find a way to get their values.

In particular - I want to create a Run object via POST

thanks

Answer 1

API ALM REST Cannot run automated tests. We need to go with the OTA API for the same.

Answer 2

By OTA, try this code in VBS.

Set tdc = CreateObject("TDAPIOLE80.TDConnection") tdc.InitConnectionEx "https://URLALM" tdc.login "USer", "pass" tdc.Connect "DOMAIN", "PROJECT" Set objShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell") 'Set TSetFact = tdc.TestSetFactory Set tsTreeMgr = tdc.TestSetTreeManager Set tsFolder = tsTreeMgr.NodeByPath("your tree") Set tsList = tsFolder.FindTestSets("testSet") Set theTestSet = tsList.Item(1) 'list of testSets Set Scheduler = theTestSet.StartExecution("") if err.number <> 0 then 'msgbox err.Description Else Scheduler.RunAllLocally = True Scheduler.Run Set execstatus = Scheduler.ExecutionStatus Do While RunFinished = False execstatus.RefreshExecStatusInfo "all", True RunFinished = execstatus.Finished Set EventsList = execstatus.EventsList For Each ExecEventInfoObj In EventsList strNowEvent = ExecEventInfoObj.EventType Next For i = 1 To execstatus.Count Set TestExecStatusobj = execstatus.Item(i) intTestid = TestExecStatusobj.TestInstance Next Loop execstatus.RefreshExecStatusInfo "all", True End if Set tsTreeMgr = nothing Set tsFolder = nothing Set tsList = nothing Set theTestSet =nothing tdc.Disconnect tdc.Logout tdc.ReleaseConnection Set tdc = Nothing 

Answer 3

Through Rest Api, you can create a run for each of the test instances in the test case and update each step through the steps of this specific test case at run time. When creating a run, you have an update after the required field: -

 http://<server>/qcbin//rest/domains/<>/projects/<>/runs/ <Entity Type=\"run\"><Fields> <Field Name=\"name\"><Value>Run_2015-04-15</Value></Field> <Field Name=\"testcycl-id\"><Value>573269</Value></Field> <Field Name=\"cycle-id\"><Value>4363</Value></Field> <Field Name=\"test-id\"><Value>29201</Value></Field> <Field Name=\"subtype-id\"><Value>hp.qc.run.MANUAL</Value></Field> <Field Name=\"owner\"><Value>owner</Value></Field> </Fields></Entity> 

After creating the run, you need to get the Run-ID {Run ID} from the generated Response Xml /qcbin/rest/domains/{domain}/projects/{project}/runs/?query={name[Run_2015-04-15]} - use this URL to get {Run ID} to be used to update steps. Used in the following url

 /qcbin/rest/domains/{domain}/projects/{project}/runs/{Run ID}/ 

For startup steps: - To get the identifier for a specific step (for example, step 1.2 ...), use the following request URL.

 /qcbin/rest/domains/{domain}/projects/{project}/runs/{Run ID}/run-steps/?query={name[Step 1]}-use this url to get Step ID {ID}. 

To update Step: 1. Use the following URL: -

  /qcbin/rest/domains/{domain}/projects/{project}/runs/{Run ID}/run-steps/{ID} 

2. Create an Xml and use the post method to update the status field.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?> - <Entity Type="run-step"> + <ChildrenCount> <Value>0</Value> </ChildrenCount> - <Fields> + <Field Name="test-id"> <Value>6</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="comp-status"> <Value /> </Field> <Field Name="rel-obj-id" /> <Field Name="obj-id" /> + <Field Name="has-linkage"> <Value>N</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="execution-date"> <Value>2017-09-25</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="path"> <Value /> </Field> + <Field Name="desstep-id"> <Value>1031</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="attachment"> <Value>Y</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="has-picture"> <Value>N</Value> </Field> <Field Name="tree-parent-id" /> + <Field Name="id"> <Value>24820</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="component-data"> <Value /> </Field> + <Field Name="bpt-path"> <Value /> </Field> + <Field Name="actual"> <Value><html><body> Results match expected </body></html></Value> </Field> + <Field Name="step-order"> <Value>1</Value> </Field> <Field Name="level" /> + <Field Name="expected"> <Value><html><body> <div align="left"> <font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:8pt">Successful launch of website</span></font> </div> </body></html></Value> </Field> <Field Name="line-no" /> + <Field Name="comp-subtype-name"> <Value /> </Field> - <Field Name="extended-reference"> <Value /> </Field> - <Field Name="name"> <Value>Step 1</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="execution-time"> <Value>03:56:29</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="bpta-condition"> <Value /> </Field> + <Field Name="user-template-01"> <Value>Website Tester</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="parent-id"> <Value>1522</Value> </Field> + <Field Name="user-template-03"> <Value /> </Field> + <Field Name="bpt-facet-type"> <Value /> </Field> + <Field Name="user-template-04"> <Value>kama</Value> </Field> - <Field Name="status"> <Value>Passed</Value> </Field> </Fields>