How to pass variables between test cases in a suite (the "right" way...)

[kazurayam]

@gdearest07

would it work if the test suite is being run in parallel

2 Test Suites running in parallel run in 2 separated OS processes (independent Java VMs). See the following post for detail:

Parallel execution is inconsistent &/or not reliable

@ThanhTo No. This is not correct. I believe that an OS-level Process (=Java VM instance) is forked per Test Suite in a Test Suite Collection. I have got an evidence. I have made a project published on GitHub: In this project, you will find a Test Suite Collection named “TSC_usingTimestampedLogger” which binds 4 Test Suites and execute them in parallel mode. I executed the TSC and monitored Activity Monitor on Mac to see how OS-level processes behave. When I executed the TSC, I could see 4…

Therefore thread-safety of collections would not matter much when you run 2 Test Suites.

Thread-safety matters only when you create threads in Test Cases yourself. I do not think there are many people who does multi-threading in Katalon Studio, but there are some posts regarding multi-threading in Test Cases.

• How to perform mobile actions on an app within a separate thread - #6 by kazurayam
• TestClosure --- executing Groovy Closures in multi-Threads in a Test Case simultaneously