"Partial" Semi-Automation (Partial User Interaction) possible with iTest?

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takabanana asked Nov 21, '11 cwhitty answered Mar 11, '14

"Partial" Semi-Automation (Partial User Interaction) possible with iTest?

In iTest, is it possible to have it semi-automated, whereby the following steps can take place for a single Test Case?

Start iTest TestCase execution
Run some automated tests (i.e. change channel on TV)
Wait for confirmation from user (i.e. "Do you see video and hear audio? Press 'Y' or 'N') - Test Fails if User does not interact/respond, or can move on with default setting of "If no response from User, handle it as if 'N' was entered"
Based on confirmation, do X or Y... or Pass/Fail
Do other automated things
End iTest TestCase execution

Is this kind of semi-automation possible with iTest?
I was asked by someone, and I answered "I don't think so" but I wanted to make sure...

Thanks.

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Answer 1 · 2013-09-10T12:40:41Z

vinod_reddy answered Sep 10, '13

Thanks for your support Brian Buege :) Actually we have a requirement where user information should be directly taken from iTest GUI popup window (or any similar user interactive mechanism in iTest ), because we are not going to use any gtalk or any IM chat applications in our testing environment.

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Answer 2 · 2013-09-06T13:32:28Z

BrianB answered Sep 6, '13

Please see answer above. The easiest way is to use the XMPP session type and have iTest contact you via IM (Google Talk, etc). It can contact you anywhere in the world. Most people aren't don't want to be sitting in front of the device waiting for prompts when long tests are running. We tend to discourage actual "prompting" of the user from iTest itself, because many times the test cases may be run from iTestRT in regression or on some platform like a server without an easily accessible console. Using XMPP/chat keeps the test case much more portable. Plus, it is pretty neat when your test case pings you on IM for a response!

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Answer 3 · 2013-09-06T07:23:30Z

vinod_reddy answered Sep 6, '13

HI, Even we too have the same scenario, from my test script i will request user input and based on that, i should do necessary action in the test case. please give proper information how to achieve this in iTest ? Thanks, Vinod

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Answer 4 · 2011-11-22T14:54:20Z

BrianB answered Nov 22, '11 BrianB posted Nov 22, '11

This is possible. We created the XMPP/Chat session type for this very purpose.

Run the first automated part of the test. Then, use the chat session type to send an IM to a particular user or account (either using a public XMPP server like Google Chat, or a private one). The user can then type a response back and the test case can continue, terminate, or take other action based on the response from the user.

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takabanana commented · Nov 22, 2011 at 04:29 PM

Ah - awesome - totally didn't think of that!

We will try it out for sure - thanks!

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