creating static image lists to be used in all scripts

Eggplant Functional
1

I have over 500 scripts that test diffrent aspects of a GUI platform. From release to release those image formats change and new captures must be added to reflect changes in the GUI. I am looking for ideas to combat this.

I would like to create a script that has all the image lists used in my testing. In that way I can update the script that has the list and all my scripts would be updated.

for example:
MyScript1.script {
set imageList = ImageLib.getImageList(“myImageList”)

if AnyImageFound(imageList) then
click FoundImageName()
end if
}

ImageLib.script {

function getImageList listName
if listName = “myImageList” then
return “image1”&&&“image2”&&&“image3”
end if
end getImageList

}

any sugestions?

2

One strategy is to create a suite of images only, name it something like “Version_5_Images.suite”, and then load that suite either via setting it as a helper in Eggplant’s UI (so all scripts can use) or doing “opensuite” (if you want to localize usage to a particular script).

Barry

3

The strategy that Barry mentions is the one we use, and it works quite well. We have several subsets of the same app and we keep the images in a suite and load that suite when we need it.

4

If you have a list of image names (“image1”, “image2”, “image3”) you can’t pass that directly to Eggplant commands that expect a collection of individual parameters, like the ClickAny command.

The solution is to use the “as parameters” syntax to convert the list to a set of parameters, so your code might look like this


set imageList to ("image1", "image2", "image3",...)
ClickAny imageList as parameters

This isn’t an answer to your overall strategy but a technique that you can use to handle lists as they relate to Eggplant commands.

5

Jim–

Is something like this even easier? If order doesn’t really matter, you’d not even need to edit a script when you add images to your new images. You could even separate things even more finely if you wanted.

Just drop all your images into a suite, then run a script that builds a list:


to handle getImageList
     
     //ask for a suite/folder
     answer folder "What suite would you like to process?"
     put it & "/images" into folderPath

     put the files of folderPath into fileList
     
     //build the list and filter out unwanted files
     repeat with each item theFile in fileList
         if theFile ends with ".tiff" then --remove *.imageinfo files
            insert theFile into imageList
         end if
     end repeat
     return imageList
end getImageList

NOTE: I haven’t tried this code yet. It does compile :wink:

Hope this helps.

6

the as parameters works great!

thanks for the input