Eiffel: how do I set the command line arguments of an autotest?

Question

Some of my tests needs something like

{EXECUTION_ENVIRONMENT}.arguments.separate_character_option_value ('l')

to be attached (not Void), how do I set commandline arguments to eiffel autotest?

Answer 1

At the moment there is no support to run Autotest from the command line and pass arguments, we are looking into it.

So, for now, It's possible to launch test cases from the command line using something like

ec -config testing.ecf -tests

but there is no way to filter test cases or even pass command line arguments.

But there is a workaround

You can set environment variables before to run the test cases from the command line or EiffelStudio IDE.

1. Define all the environment variables that you need to mimic the arguments export ARGUMENT_C=my_value or set ARGUMENT_C=my_value.

2. Call the test cases from the command line or IDE ec -config testing.ecf -tests

3. The test cases that need to get access to these values need to do something like this

   if attached {EXECUTION_ENVIRONMENT}.get ("ARGUMENT_C") as l_val then -- do something end

Hope this helps