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Built-In variables Cloudshell Authoring
Hey Everyone,
I have two questions. Is there a set of built-in variables for a setup or teardown driver in Cloudshell Authoring? I was looking at an old driver that @Jim.B wrote for us where things such as {lastError.OriginatingStep} or {hostname} (which is the host the execution is running on) but these don't seem to be defined anywhere I can find. It would be very helpful if there was a document which showed us how many of these existed, and what they did.
My second question - Is there a developer/user guide for Cloudshell Authoring? I looked on help.quali.com and couldn't find any answers.
Please let me know if this makes sense!
Thanks in advance for your assistance!
Jacob
Hi @jacoadam,
I went to this page:
http://help.quali.com/Online%20Help/8.3/TestShell/Content/CSA/Matshell/mat2str.htm
and some functions are missing there, so I used the "Send Feedback" option to report that.
This will probably be fixed soon, and I'd recommend anyone who sees something missing/wrong to report that, directly from the help page. This is a great tool that quickly and easily makes the online documentation better.
To your first question, the missing ones are: hostname, branch, operatingSystem.Description/Platform/Version, lastError.Name/Parameters/Description/OriginatingStep.
As for the second question, the online help of the CloudShell Authoring is part of the TestShell documentation as most of it is similar.
Also, there is no dev-guide for CloudShell Authoring as most of the new out-of-the-box sandbox setup/teardown/scripts and resource driver/scripts are developed in python. There is a dev-guide that is relevant to the python usage here: https://devguide.quali.com.
While Authoring has many advantages for test automation, we don't recommend using Authoring for creating CloudShell orchestration.
Yaniv
Hello Quali Team,
Are there any updates on this?
Thanks!
Jacob
