Passing Jenkins Parameters into Devtest

Products

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

Issue/Introduction

 

I have 2 jenkins jobs and have to pass couple of parameters from Job1 to Devtest Test case. I tried <jvmarg value="-DmyProperty=str_nbr"/> as below in build xml , but did not work out. 

 All installs are local.  I have used  "jvmarg" tag inside junitlisa tag. so that, value assigned to jvmarg will be considered as a jvm property and you can directly use it as DevTest  property. 

Ex: 

<junitlisa toDir="${testReportDir}" 
outputtoformatters="false" 
test="Tests/DevTest_config_info.tst" 
stagingDoc="StagingDocs/1User0Think_RunContinuously.stg" 
user="admin" 
password="admin"> 
<jvmarg value="-DmyProperty=MyProperty"/> </junitlisa> 

But this did not work.  

Environment

 

All supported releases and platforms of DevTest.

Cause

 

N/A

Resolution

 

In Jenkins,  modify the Jenkins build steps to update the project config file with the properties between jobs. 

Use the  Create/Update Text File  plugin to do that:

FilePath: ${Workspace}Configs/project.config 
Enable " Create at Workspace" 

Text File Content  (say for example)
store=${str_nbr}  // these are parameters in jenkins {str_nbr} 
date=${Sales_Date} 

Select the : Append to end of the file option. 

This functionality modifies the project.config ( or the active config) and these properties {{store}} and {{date}} will be  appended to the config file. 

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