I’m sure it’s something stupidly obvious, but I can’t quite figure out where to place a method or function to share between test cases. I want to call it in various test cases to log in. Where do I put the code for this so that multiple test cases can use it? I would guess in a library file, but I’…

It sounds like you want a Custom Keyword (class). If you create one, you can place all your “shared” methods in that class and import that class (file) in whichever tests need it. https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/introduction-to-custom-keywords.html

Im not sure if i have misunderstood what you want to do but what i gather is you simply want to call a test case in another test case - i would just create a test case called “login” which contains your following code - { WebUI.navigateToUrl(‘ http://xx.x.x.xx:8080/CIS/login/APS’ ) WebUI.setText(f…

Agreed, you want to use Custom Keywords. Here’s some documentation to get you started: https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-studio/docs/sample-custom-keywords.html

Looks like Custom Keywords are just what I needed! Thank you. Interesting terminology, why is it called that? It seems slightly clunky to write stuff like this, but it it works perfectly: boolean loggedIn = CustomKeywords.‘myMethods.someMethods.logIn’()

You actually don’t need to use the @Keyword decorator as shown in the examples. You can just implement this like a normal Java/Groovy class and call methods as usual: public class Login { public void login() { . . . } } In your script, instantiate your “custom keyw…

This has really helped me aswell - never knew how the custom keywords worked on here, now i can organise properly

If you’re interested, there’s an extremely efficient way to organize your code called the Page Object Model. I would highly recommend it: [image] bliki: Page Object A page object wraps an HTML page, or fragment, with an application-specific API, allowing you to manipulate page elements …

Great thanks for sharing - definately looks like something ill be interested in

Thank you @Brandon_Hein that is very helpful! I’ve got my code down to this: new myMethods.SomeMethods().logIn() But it seems like I have to include the package name (“myMethods”) for it to work properly. Did you skip the package name in your examples somehow?

[image] andytron: But it seems like I have to include the package name (“myMethods”) for it to work properly. Did you skip the package name in your examples somehow? This is how Java/Groovy works; you must reference your custom keyword (your class) in either of the two following ways: 1.) In…

Perfect, thank you so much. And that shortcut to add the needed packages is really handy!

How to share function between test cases

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Brandon_Hein February 15, 2021, 6:32pm 18

Sure. Let me link you some pseudo code I wrote in another topic a while back ( instead of re-typing it ):

This is, very generally, my interpretation of a good POM structure.

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