ERROR com.itko.lisa.test.ParseInState - Could not evaluate expression '=doDateDeltaFromCurrent

Products

• CA Application Test
• CA Continuous Application Insight (PathFinder)
• Service Virtualization

Issue/Introduction

The magic date doDateDeltaFromCurrent is returning an invalid date or sometime throwing the below error:
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ERROR com.itko.lisa.test.ParseInState - Could not evaluate expression '=doDateDeltaFromCurrent
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Environment

All supported DevTest releases.

Cause

Magic date doDateDeltaFromCurrent is not well defined which causes the issue. For example:

doDateDeltaFromCurrent("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ","-7D"); 
 

Resolution

Using the correct format as below will resolved the issue.

{{=doDateDeltaFromCurrent("yyyy-MM-dd","10D");/*2014-10-08*/}}

Additional Information

Refer to section "Magic Dates" in the documentation of the DevTest release you are running.