When using Qualitia Offline Package on the Remote and Sauce Cloud environments, following are the limitations users face when executing test cases.
Lack of Support for Java Robot Based Actions:
Sauce does Cloud does not support Java robot based actions when executing test cases. Hence following actions do not get executed in Cloud and Remote environment;
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- either execute them in local environments or
- create their AutoIt scripts to be executed in Sauce in Cloud environment.
For more information about support for AutoIt, please refer to the Support for AutoIT in Sauce Execution Environment section.
Lack of Support for Headless Mode:
Sauce execution Cloud execution environment does not support the Headless mode.
For parallel execution in SauceCloud, you can execute tests in multiple VMs. A separate VM is allocated to execute each offline package, so you can run multiple offline packages to get multiple VMs.
User Defined Firefox Profile:
Executing test cases in Sauce in Cloud environment using user defined Firefox profile is experimental.
Support for AutoIT
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in Cloud Execution Environment
In order to achieve execution of Windows based actions such as DownloadFile, PressKeys, WindowsAuthentication, and so on, Qualitia supports Sauce's "Pre-Run" feature. It allows uploading AutoIT.exe (or any exe) and running before starting test case executions. Running .exe performs the windows based actions flawlessly.
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