Trigger ATF Test / Suite from another instance

ServiceNow - Start and Schedule Multiple ATF test runners in browser

• Trigger ATF Test / Suite from another instance
  • What does servicenow-test-runner-scheduler do?
  • Installation
    • pipx
    • pip
  • Configure
  • Usage
  • Demo

What does servicenow-test-runner-scheduler do?

• Start NUM_INSTANCE (default: 6) instances of the client test runner concurrently
• After RESTART_INTERVAL // NUM_INSTANCE (default: 7200 // 6 = 1200) seconds, the first runner will be restarted, and after another 1200 seconds, the seconds runner will be restarted, and so on.
• After all the runner have been restarted once, all the 6 runners will be scheduled to restarted every RESTART_INTERVAL (default: 7200) seconds.

Installation

Install python3 and chromedriver first.

pipx

This is the recommended installation method.

$ pipx install servicenow-test-runner-scheduler

pip

$ pip install servicenow-test-runner-scheduler

Configure

• Create a .env file and put it in the same directory as the trigger_test_zipapp.pyz file.

• Edit the .env files, so it looks like this:

  # required fields
  instance=https://dev105825.service-now.com
  userid=admin
  password=admin_pw
  
  # optional fields, the value shown here are the default values
  RESTART_INTERVAL=7200
  TOLERANCE=300
  NUM_INSTANCE=6
  CHECKING_INTERVAL=300
  

Usage

$ snowtrs --help # or servicenow-test-runner-scheduler --help

Loading settings for: 
usage: servicenow-test-runner-scheduler [-h] [-V] [-n] [-s]

ServiceNow - Start ATF test runner in browser

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  -n, --dry-run         Dry run (default: False)
  -s, --scheduled-runner
                        Start a scheduled runner (default: Client test runner) (default: False)
  --headless            Run browser instances in headless mode (default: False)

Demo

Configuration of this demo:

# .env
RESTART_INTERVAL=6
TOLERANCE=1
NUM_INSTANCE=6
CHECKING_INTERVAL=1

Run servicenow-test-runner-scheduler --dryrun.