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| jamesyu |
 Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:32 am Post subject: How to check bar overrides with an automated process? |
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Hi All,
We build bars and we override bars wtih different properties using Ant. After bars were overriden, we want to be able to have another automated process to ensure the bars are overriden correctly.
Any tools can do this?
Thanks,
James |
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| Gaya3 |
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:46 am Post subject: |
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Jedi
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you are making your life so complicated....
why do you need a process on top of another process.....
you can write the same logic in ANT and verify it,
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:50 am Post subject: Re: How to check bar overrides with an automated process? |
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| jamesyu wrote: |
| After bars were overriden, we want to be able to have another automated process to ensure the bars are overriden correctly. |
So which automated process don't you trust? ANT or the apply overrides command? If you fear that automated process don't work how will you trust the automated process that checks the automated processes? 
If your ant script works when you test it, be assured the magic won't disappear unexpectedly. Especially if you have proper error handling.
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| jamesyu |
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 7:56 am Post subject: Re: How to check bar overrides with an automated process? |
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We want to be able to do this as there are two teams involved. The dev team sends out a package of bars after overrides to another support team in another country. The support team wants to verify the bars.
Anyway, we want to be able to do it as this is part of the requirements. |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:01 am Post subject: Re: How to check bar overrides with an automated process? |
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| jamesyu wrote: |
| Anyway, we want to be able to do it as this is part of the requirements. |
That's not a reason. That's saying you want to do it because someone's decided you want to do it.
Once you've verified this, how do you know that the support team won't apply a different set of overrides? Presumably because you trust the support team not to do this. Likewise the support team should trust the dev team to run the ant script properly, or run the overrides themselves if they don't.
I'm not aware of any tools that do this because it's an odd thing to want to do. You should be able to write something to decontruct the bar file & obtain the details you want.
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:19 am Post subject: |
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| Why doesn't mqsireadbar do the trick? |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
| Why doesn't mqsireadbar do the trick? |
It might. I thought that just showed the original settings, but given what mqsiapplyoverrides must be doing it ought to show the current settings shouldn't it?
It's a bad day.
Using mqsireadbar still doesn't verify that the correct settings have been applied to the bar file; just that the settings given to the ant file have been applied. If the support team don't trust the dev team then even this doesn't address the basic issue...
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| jamesyu |
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| mqjeff wrote: |
| Why doesn't mqsireadbar do the trick? |
mqsireadbar may e able to do the work, together with some help from ant scripts or even Java code. I will look into it. Thanks a lot! |
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| mqmatt |
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:05 am Post subject: |
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| jamesyu |
| Posted: Tue Jul 20, 2010 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Thanks a lot for your reminder! Great API's. That will save lots of coding. I will use them. |
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