Location of automation assets in Velocity

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lnelms asked Mar 9, '17 cwhitty answered Mar 9, '17

Location of automation assets in Velocity

With Velocity 6.0 the automation assets and execution is now built into the Velocity instance. In 5.4 I was about to download the test cases to work on them but with 6.0 I can't find where to download these test cases from. For instance I have a test case called "aggregate-ports.fftc" and I would like to work on it in my instance of iTest 6.0 because the creator of the test case is not around anymore. I was looking around in the Velocity instance and could not find it. Can someone tell me where I can find where these test cases are now stored in Velocity 6.0 so that I can download and work on it.

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Answer 1 · 2017-03-09T03:52:09Z

cwhitty answered Mar 9, '17

Velocity 6.0 and its agents now support iTar caching. That means that when Velocity dispatches a test to run on an agent, the agent first checks its local cache to see if it holds the iTar locally. If the iTar is not present, it will pull the iTar from Velocity. If it's present locally, then it will execute from the local instance of the iTar.

You can use this feature to recover your iTar. Run the test case, find out which agent it was dispatched to, go to the agent and find a directory called "assets-cache". You'll see a directory structure that eventually points to the file you want. It won't have an itar extension, but it's an iTar.

Good luck, let us know how it works out.

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