Params

Param declaration

Params let you simplify the test scripts management by naming some string constants as global-visible identifiers. You can use those identifiers to access the string constants in the test scripts.

Param (global string constants) declaration is done with the param keyword. The declaration has the following syntax:

param <name> <value>

• name - Type: identifier. The name for the param. Must be uniqie.
• value - Type: string. Param value.

After the declaration, the param becomes accessible inside test scripts. You can access other params while declaring a new param.

It is also possible to declare params with the --param <param_name> <param_value> command line arguments. These kind of params are also accessible inside the test srcipts, like the static-declared params.

Command-line argument param names must not conflict with the static-declared params' names.

A param is available inside the whole test script. Even if referencing occurs earlier that the declaration.

Once declared, a param could not change its value. An error will be generated if such an attempt is done.

Example

Let's assume that there is a command-line argument --param ISO_DIR /path/to/iso passed to the Testo interpreter. Then

param param1 "value1"  # translates to "value1"
param param2 "${ISO_DIR}/${param1}" # translates to "/path/to/iso/value1"

Special (reserved) params

Some params are reserved and play role of actions default behaviour configuration. Such params let you adjust the default timeouts and intervals in some actions. For example, the default wait timeout is 1 minute. If you want to change the default timeout value for the wait action (to 2 minutes for example) you need to do this:

test tmp1 {
    my_vm wait "Hello world" # Default timeout is 2m
}

param TESTO_WAIT_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT "2m"

...

test tmp2 {
    my_vm wait "Hello world" # Default timeout is 2m
}

Special params could be defined only one time.

Special params fall under the same rules as usual params. For example, it is possible to define a special param with the command line argument (--param).

Special Params list

• TESTO_WAIT_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT - default timeout in wait actions.
• TESTO_WAIT_DEFAULT_INTERVAL - default time interval between screen checks in wait actions.
• TESTO_CHECK_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT - default timeout in check conditions.
• TESTO_CHECK_DEFAULT_INTERVAL - default time interval between screen checks in check conditions.
• TESTO_MOUSE_MOVE_CLICK_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT - default timeout for mouse actions (if a timeout is applicable).
• TESTO_PRESS_DEFAULT_INTERVAL - default time intervals between keys pressings in press actions.
• TESTO_TYPE_DEFAULT_INTERVAL - default time intervals between keys pressings in type actions.
• TESTO_EXEC_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT - default timeout in exec actions.
• TESTO_COPY_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT - default timeout in copyto and copyfrom actions.

Param referencing

Syntax

To reference a param, the following syntax is used:

"${VAR_REF}"

where VAR_REF is the param's name.

You could put a param referencing in any part of a string and it will be OK:

"Hello ${VAR_REF}"

Params are avaliable basically in any string in Testo-lang. You could use them inside multiline strings, wait-expression, JS-selections, virtual resources declarations and so on

"""Hello
    ${VAR_REF}
"""

js """
    find_text("${Menu entry}").match_color("${foreground_colour}, "${gray}")
"""

machine my_ubuntu {
    ...
    iso: "${ISO_DIR}/ubuntu_server.iso"
}

You can escape the referencing characters ${ with another dollar sign: $${

Aside from params, you can reference counter values inside for loops and macro arguments inside macro bodies. The syntax remains the same.

Resolve order

When you're referencing an identifier, its value is resolved in a specific order. If the value is found at any step the algorithm stops:

1. If the referenced identifier is a counter value inside a for loop, then the counter's value is returned.
2. If the referenced idenfifier is an argument value inside a macro body, then the argument's value is returned.
3. If the referenced identifier is a static-declared or a command-line declared param, its value is returned.
4. An error is generated since Testo couldn't find the identifier's value.

You can check that a param is declared with a DEFINED expression in an if statement:

if (DEFINED VAR_REF) {
  print "var ref is ${VAR_REF}"
} else {
  print "var ref is not defined"
}