KRE license needed

[kazurayam]

@isaac.palmasolis.ex1

you may run tests in parallel with one single KRE licences by creating Test Suites that may be grouped in a Suite Collection.

Here I guess that you expect your tests in parallel mode to run faster than in sequential mode.

In my humble opinion, the parallel mode of Test Suite Collection runs no faster than the sequential mode. So the parallel mode is not really usefull. Why? See the following post of mine.

Katalon has bug when running test suite collection in parallel mode with two or more devices, raising a WebDriverException.

You should never use Test Suite Collection in parallel mode. It will annoy you. It won’t help you. Any investigation on it will be a waste of your time. If you desperately want to run 3 Test Suites in parallel, then you should get 3 PCs on your desk, distribute a Katalon project onto each 3 machines. Run a Test Suite on a single machine. You can launch 3 processes prallely just manually on 3 machines. They will run fine without exceptions. Do you want 10 processes in parallel? OK. You should g…

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Katalon has bug when running test suite collection in parallel mode with two or more devices, raising a WebDriverException.

I also have a doubt about the browser’s capability to run in parallel on a single machine. When I run multiple Test Suites each of which opens a Chrome browser, I can see in the Task Manager that multiple processes of Chrome are launched. Do these Chrome processes are acting in parallel? No. As far as I observed, Chrome processes never make multiple HTTP Request-Response conversations in parallel. I observed Chrome process#1 and Chrome process#2 acted just sequentially. While the process#1 i…

I would suggest you:

1. Don’t use a Test Suite Collection at all
2. Create multiple Test Suites. Let CI/CD pipeline to distributes the Test Suites into multiple agents on mutilple machines; as an extreme case, let a single Test Suite to run on a single box.
3. You need to purchase multiple KRE licenses; the number of licenses will be equal to or greater than the number of processes to which you distribute your Test Suites.