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New Recommendations from Qualitia v8.0.0

Qualitia has come up with a new set of rules for creating custom actions in Qualitia 8.0.0 and later. If you have created custom actions to Qualitia version earlier than v8.0.0, then you must edit the existing ones with the following rules.

Making a New Class for Recommendations

You can create a custom class consisting of your custom actions. The newly generated class can be added in the same package as that of the already supported actions. 

You must ensure that in the testcasetest case, the ‘name’ and ‘qClass’ fields of action is are set to the correct name of the action and class containing that action respectively. Qualitia now uses the concept of java reflection through which the action mentioned in ‘name’ and class mentioned in ‘qClass’ is called directly for action execution. The following example demonstrates how to make a new class for custom actions. 

Writing Custom Actions in the Accepted Format

Qualitia now allows to write code for a custom in the following format. 

   package <QASpackagename>; 

import com.qualitia.execution.ActionResponse;

   import com.qualitia.execution.ApplicationLogger;

   import com.qualitia.models.testcase.ExecutionResult;

   import com.webdriverfw.Wrappers.General; 

  <QASimportlist> 

  public class <QASclassname> extends General { 

  //Define your customs actions here 

   }

Writing Custom Actions in the Accepted Format

Qualitia now allows to write code for a custom in the following format. 

 public ActionResponse <QASmethodname>(<QASparametername>) { 

     ActionResponse actionResponse = getActionResponse(); 

     ApplicationLogger applicationLogger = actionResponse.getApplicationLogger(); 

     actionResponse.setExecutionResult(ExecutionResult.FAILED); 

     try { 

               // Your code here... 

           applicationLogger.writeToInfoLog(""); 

           actionResponse.setMessage("Successful message"); 

           actionResponse.setExecutionResult(ExecutionResult.PASSED); 

        } catch (Exception ex) { 

           applicationLogger.writeToErrorLog("Exception message", ex); 

           actionResponse.setMessage(“Failed Message”, FailureCategory); 

           actionResponse.setExecutionResult(ExecutionResult.FAILED); 

        } 

        return actionResponse; 

}  

As per the previous Qualita versions prior to v8.0.0 , the actions used to return integer value i.e 0,1,2,-1  which were used to indicate PASSED, FAILED, DEFECT, NOT-EXECUTED respectively .

The return value has been changed to ActionResponse. The actions return ActionResponse which contains 2 parameters Message and ExecutionResult. Before ActionResponse is returned during the execution of action, the required message and ExecutionResult must be set properly. The primitive datatypes allowed for action parameters are String and Array. 

ApplicationLooger

For actions specific to logs, you can use ApplicationLogger.  

• applicationLogger.writeToInfoLog(""); 

• applicationLogger.writeToErrorLog(""); 

The main purpose of ApplicationLogger is to create logs the ogs to understand the flow of execution. There are 2 types of logs supported for Qualitia: 

• Info Log

• Error Log

Show Link of File in Info Log Section 

Some custom actions needs need to write a file during its execution. You can view that file inside the Info Log of that custom action. If you want to view the file contents, then you can click the Link present in the Message section of Info. 

Below The following function needs to be called before returning Action Response to show the link of files inside the log section. 

showLinkOfFileInLogsSection(String sourceFilePath, ActionResponse actionResponse) 

The sourceFilePath denotes the file path you write during custom action execution, and actionResponse denotes the Action Response object 

object. 

The Error logs must be in the catch block of Action. These logs can be seen in Qualitia report which is generated after the execution of the suite. 

Setting an Execution Result

While setting ExecutionResult, you can make use of ExecutionResult enum where the required results are available. 

• ExecutionResult.PASSED is used to set when the action is passed.

• ExecutionResult.FAILED is used to set when the action is failed. 

• ExecutionResult.DEFECT is used to set when the action has a defect. 

• ExecutionResult.NOT_EXECUTED is used to set when the action halts the execution.  

The message and ExecutionResult that has been set will appear in the final Qualitia report.

 Example:- 

Here is one brief example on writing custom Actions, showcasing how it was done in old version and how it is done in Qualitia 8.0.0 version. 

If you want to write a custom action for checking two strings are equal, you can do it as:  

In Older Versions before 8.0.0

 :  

    public int EqualStrings(String a, String b)  

    {  

    if(a.equals(b))  

    {  

    DataLogger.writeToDebugAndInfoLogs("they are equal");  

    return 0;  

    }  

    else  

    {  

    DataLogger.writeToDebugAndInfoLogs("they are not equal");  

    return 1;  

    }  

    }  

    In Qualitia 8.0.0 Version

 :  

    public AcionResponse EqualStrings(String a, String b)  

    {  

    ActionResponse actionResponse = getActionResponse();  

    if(a.equals(b))  

    {  

    actionResponse.setMessage("they are equal");  

    actionResponse.setExecutionResult(ExecutionResult.PASSED);  

    return actionResponse;  

    }  

    else  

    {  

    actionResponse.setMessage("they are not                                                                                equal”,FailureCategories.Category.INVALID_DATA);  

    actionResponse.setExecutionResult(ExecutionResult.FAILED);  

    return actionResponse;  

    }  

    }

 Adding a Failure Category for a Custom Action

You can add a pre-defined failure category or create a custom category for a custom action.

For more information, refer to Real Time Reporting Portal

You can add a new category and define new enum implementing Failure Calssification Interface as: 

 Use it in actions as: 

actionResponse.setMessage("message",FailureCategories.CustomCategory.NEW_CUSTOM_CATEGORY1); 

 You can create a new  category as shown in the following: 

 1.) Using String :  

actionResponse.setMessage("message",FailureCategory.newCategory("Categoryname"));

2.) Using String Constant : You can define constants to customize categories in a separate class. 

package com.webdriverfw.Wrappers; 

 public class MyCategoriesConstants { 

   public static final String MY_CUSTOM_CATEGORY3 = "This is my custom category 1"; 

    public static final String MY_CUSTOM_CATEGORY4 = "This is my custom category 2"; 

} 

Use it in actions as:- 

actionResponse.setMessage("message",FailureCategory.newCategory(MY_CUSTOM_CATEGORY3));