IBM RFT – Descriptive Programming – Function to kill and start the application in browser.

IBM RFT – Descriptive Programming – Function to kill and start the application in browser.

This function can be used to launch the application URL in browser. It contains “Mode” as a Flag variable which if used to decide whether to close all the browser session and launches the specified URL in a new browser, or launch the browser in without closing previously opened browser sessions. As of now have hardcoded the value of Mode variable as “regression” but can be dynamically retrieved from frameworks environment variable settings file.

public boolean launch_browser_appURL (String appURL)

{

try{

String mode = "regression"; // Modify Here to assign the value of mode from Environment Variable.

                                                

if (mode.equalsIgnoreCase("regression"))

{

try{

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c tskill iexplore");                                                                    

logTestResult("All Active Browsers closed....", true,””);

}

catch(Exception e){

System.out.println("No Active Browsers present to close");

logTestResult ("No Active Browsers present to close", true,"");

}

sleep(5);

}             

                                               

if(appURL.equals("")){

logError("Application URL is blank");

logTestResult ("Application URL is blank", false,””);

return false;

}

//Start the application in browser with the obtained URL

startBrowser(appURL);

sleep(sleep_min);

//Returns true on success

return true;

}

catch (Exception e) {

logError("Unable to launch: " + appURL);

logTestResult ("Unable to launch: " + appURL, false,””);

return false;

}

}

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