Is it possible to add an arbitrary key-value pair (property) into ^UnitTest.results?

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Olga Smolyar · Jan 6, 2020

Wondering whether it's possible to get %UnitTest to output an arbitrary key-value pair (a new property) into ^UnitTest.results ?

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Joel Solon · Jan 8, 2020

Not sure exactly what you're asking for...

You can add additional properties to your custom unit test class (inheriting from %UnitTest.TestCase) and use them to share data between the methods in the class. But this doesn't show up automatically in the results.

You can use the $$$LogMessage macro to display whatever you want in the results, but this is just text, not a new property.

do $$$LogMessage(key _ ":" _ value)

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2020-01-06T14:51:14-05:00

Eduard Lebedyuk · Jan 6, 2020

What do you want to achieve?

Is it possible to add another test suite and use that?

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score 0 · Answer 2 · 2020-01-06T14:53:50-05:00

Yes I mean if we write a new test suite, I'm just wondering how, when running the tests, we could get the result to contain a new property (such as 'owner' or 'category')

score 0 · Answer 3 · 2020-01-08T14:59:59-05:00

To be more specific about what I'm trying to do: it's to generate a new field/value in %UnitTest_Result.TestSuite
in addition to Name, TestInstance, ID, Duration, ErrorAction, ErrorDescription, Status which appear to be available by default.

score 1 · Answer 4 · 2020-01-09T03:25:11-05:00

The easiest way to do that is to create a separate table which refers to Unit Test as a property and set additional fields there.

score 0 · Answer 5 · 2020-01-09T11:57:16-05:00

Thank you for the response! Could code within the unit test class set these additional fields in the new mapping table programatically? (Sorry, am a bit unfamiliar with %UnitTests, just looking at aggregating/classifying their results).

score 1 · Answer 6 · 2020-01-09T14:02:00-05:00

Could code within the unit test class set these additional fields in the new mapping table programatically?

Sure, same as with any other object/table.

To get the Unit Test result ID anywhere in the tests call:

set id = $get(^UnitTest.Result,0)+1

Note, that I assume you're running only one test suite at a time. If that's not the case, you'll need to implement OnAfterSaveResult callback (preferable solution anyway) and ID would be available at that time as LogIndex poroperty.

looking at aggregating/classifying their results

This might be easier solved externally to unit tests themselves - by a separate task for example.

score 0 · Answer 7 · 2020-01-08T14:28:36-05:00

Olga Smolyar · Jan 8, 2020

Thanks Joel for the reply; that is helpful.

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score 0 · Answer 8 · 2020-01-08T14:45:44-05:00

As far as what I'm trying to do: it's to generate a new field/value in %UnitTest_Result.TestSuite in addition to Name, TestInstance, ID, Duration, ErrorAction, ErrorDescription, Status which appear to be available by default.

score 1 · Answer 9 · 2020-01-09T01:15:25-05:00

Eduard Lebedyuk · Jan 9, 2020

%UnitTest.Result.* classes are marked as final.

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