How to import files in selenium ide

[asimo1998]

Dear dev team, We work another team and each member creates a different testscript file, now I need to merge those files together but the selenium version we are using cannot import the file. Can you have an alternative beta version so we can fix this issue. We use selenium ide version 3.17.2 on google chrome.

[asimo1998]

@toddtarsi Please help me with this problem, thank you

[toddtarsi]

@asimo1998 - I have a package just for you to make upgrading to v4 easy:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@seleniumhq/side-migrate

[asimo1998]

@toddtarsi So will this version support file import?

[toddtarsi]

@asimo1998 - Basically, this should take in a v3 side file and spit out a v4 side file. Is this close enough to resolve any issues in your workflow here?

[asimo1998]

@toddtarsi Let me be more specific

Environment

• Selenium IDE Chrome extension v3.17.2

Problem Using Selenium IDE, we created multiple projects, each project has some tests.

Now we want to run all tests in all project automatically, in 1 click.

Out solution is to merge all tests to 1 project, then run that project.

For example, we have:

• Project A with 10 tests (file projectA.side)

• Project B with 7 tests (file projectB.side)

Now we want to run tests in order project A -> project B, so we think of merging tests from project A and B to new project, called C, then run project C.

Problem is that we are moving test by copying manually, because we cannot find import feature in Selenium IDE.

Can you provide solution for our problem?

[toddtarsi]

@asimo1998 - Oh! Interesting, you need some way of merging projects. I've been kicking around something around this in v4 for a bit. Since we're native in v4, I think the solution here is going to be to kill the project json and to instead have v4 projects be a directory with each test being a file in a tests folder, and each suite being a file in a suites folder. Reviewing merge conflicts on project jsons in git is just such a nightmare experience. It really caps how many people can edit a project concurrently.

To merge these in v3, you'd need some function to combine two json objects right? It seems like it wouldn't be too bad. Here's an example nodeJS script to merge two projects:

const fs = require('fs');

const projectA = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('./projectA.side', 'utf8'))
const projectB = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('./projectB.side', 'utf8'))

const mergedProject = {
  ...projectA,
  tests: projectA.tests.concat(projectB.tests),
  suites: projectA.suites.concat(projectB.suites),
};

fs.writeFileSync('./mergedProject.side', JSON.stringify(mergedProject), 'utf8');

[asimo1998]

@toddtarsi We have referred to the method you provided and it has greatly supported the file merging of team members, your creativity is great Thank you very much for this help. I hope this will likely be a built-in feature for the Selenium IDE in the future <3

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