desired capabilities in env variable or command line

[brandt...@gmail.com]

I am using WTF for mobile app testing. Using TeamCity to run automated tests. TC needs to be able to pass in the path of the binary it produces for the "app" setting of the desired capabilities in my config files. Either a command line arg for runtests.py or a way to specify it in the configs.

I noticed a mention of system variables in the wiki:

https://github.com/wiredrive/wtframework/wiki/Configuration-Management

but It wasn't really clear to me....

[brandt...@gmail.com]

%teamcity.build.checkoutDir%

[David Lai]

So the environment variable  method is basically, if you set an enviornment variable like, (dots replaced by underscores, since some OS doesn't support dots in env vars)

export WTF_MySetting_login=admin

export WTF_MySetting_password=s3cure

Then you can access them using the config reader 

print WTF_CONFIG_READER.get("MySetting.login")    # admin

print WTF_CONFIG_READER.get("MySetting.password") # s3cure

This is helpful for running tests on production from the cloud where you don't want to write sensitive information to disk, 

incase the disk might be shared with other systems.  This is what I'm using for the travis CI tests since I don't want to 

leak the API keys for the Sauce account associated with the project.

[David Lai]

I'll have to check if env var settings are pulled in for the desired capabilities, I don't think it is currently.

Ideally you should be able to do this

export WTF_selenium_desired_capabilities_app=path/to/your/app

this will create an en variable that WTFramework to lookup

[David Lai]

Looks like it's not supported currently.  I'll add this to the project issues list so we can tackle it when we have time.

https://github.com/wiredrive/wtframework/issues/35

[brandt...@gmail.com]

I think there is a way to embed code in yaml....still investigating...

[David Lai]

This is sort of bad of me for pushing a new feature into a release branch while it's under testing, but I thought the change is simple enough.  I added support for overriding desired_capabilities properties via ENV vars.

https://github.com/wiredrive/wtframework/tree/release/0.4.7

[brandt...@gmail.com]

I found a good solution...and that is have TeamCity publish the artifacts of the build which can be found via URL:

app: http://appium:12...@ciserver.local:8111/httpAuth/repository/download/IfhIOS_Tests/lastFinished/IFH.zip

or

app: http://appium:12...@ciserver.local:8111/httpAuth/repository/download/IfhIOS_Tests/lastSuccessful/IFH.zip