Develop a Laucher

• Introduction
• Preparation
• Implementation
• Deployment

This part of the documentation will describe how to develop a launcher from scratch. We will detail:

• How to prepare the environment to build a template launcher
• How to implement the launcher
• How to deploy it

But before this, let's describe a bit how a launcher is actually working:

First of all, a launcher is a package including:

• A JAR file (a zip containing some Java classes)
• An XML document describing the form template to be used to create an execution configuration for this launcher

The role of the launcher is to:

• Read the execution configuration parameters
• Control (setup, tear down, start, stop etc.) the test scripts
• Retrieve the results, messages, log, traces, screenshots etc. from the test execution
• Store all those information in XQual's database so that all the metrics are calculated real-time

When executing tests locally

When executing tests on remote agents

The execution is controlled by XAgent and not XQual but the process remains basically the same: