Selenium Ruby script and HP ALM integration - ruby

Question

I am working on Selenium ALM integration.
I have scripts which are developed in ruby and I want to trigger the test execution selenium scripts from HP ALM and write test execution result back to HP ALM.
Please help me on this.

Answer 1

I think your best option would be to
create a test of type VAPI-XP-TEST (you need to mention this at test creation as it cannot be changed later)
Then, you need to provide the script language (VBScript is as good option)
Then, you need to provide the test type which is your case is
probably console application test, other options being : COM/DCOM
server test, Java Class Test, Web Service (Soap), Test.
Then, leave the 'Application Executable File' empty
The above sequence will create the initial script
Below an example of a test script (ALM side) created with the above method in which I added the code to launch (see CODE ADDED below) an external program (ruby.exe)
' vbscript [VBScript]
' Created by Application Lifecycle Management
' 4/20/2018 16:34:54
' ====================================================
' ----------------------------------------------------
' Main Test Function
' Debug - Boolean. Equals to false if running in [Test Mode] : reporting to Application Lifecycle Management
' CurrentTestSet - [OTA COM Library].TestSet.
' CurrentTSTest - [OTA COM Library].TSTest.
' CurrentRun - [OTA COM Library].Run.
' ----------------------------------------------------
Sub Test_Main(Debug, CurrentTestSet, CurrentTSTest, CurrentRun)
' *** VBScript Limitation ! ***
' "On Error Resume Next" statement suppresses run-time script errors.
' To handle run-time error in a right way, you need to put "If Err.Number <> 0 Then"
' after each line of code that can cause such a run-time error.
On Error Resume Next
' clear output window
TDOutput.Clear
' TODO: put your code here
' === CODE ADDED START ===
strCommandLine = "C:\\<pathtoyour ruby interpreter>\\bin\\ruby.exe c:\\test.rb" & CurrentTSTest.name
Set wshShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
iReturn = wshShell.Run(strCommandLine, 1, True)
if iReturn = -1 then
CurrentRun.Status = "Failed"
CurrentTSTest.Status = "Failed"
else
CurrentRun.Status = "Passed"
CurrentTSTest.Status = "Passed"
end if
' === CODE ADDED END ===
If Not Debug Then
End If
' handle run-time errors
If Err.Number <> 0 Then
TDOutput.Print "Run-time error [" & Err.Number & "] : " & Err.Description
' update execution status in "Test" mode
If Not Debug Then
CurrentRun.Status = "Failed"
CurrentTSTest.Status = "Failed"
End If
End If
End Sub
The above is an example for VBScript where your actual selenium script is c:\test.rb (see in code above)
Then, you need to create a test instance in the test lab and select this test for running
example of test.rb
puts "running the script #{ARGV[0]}"
# put your test code here
# in the end exit -1 => failure or 0 success
exit -1
#exit 0
You can use the same test.rb or different ones according to your needs.
I've tested the above setup and it works for me (ALM 12.53)
Good Luck :)