Mac Run App From Command Line With Arguments

You can run Eggplant Functional scripts and suites from a command line. There are several reasons why you might want to do this:

1. I am looking for an easy way to start different GUI OS X applications from the command line and with different parameters. If possible I would like to add them to the system PATH in order to call them easier. Note: I tried open -a 'Google Chrome' -args -disable-plugins and it started Chrome but without disabling the plugins.
2. Recently I've been wanting a way to pass command-line arguments to GUI apps by default, in my case a -geometry parameter to Emacs.app to make it start up in something approximating full-screen mode. It turns out there's a very easy way to do this.

There is no command line access for the Microsoft Remote Desktop Client. But the free and most excellent CoRD remote desktop client does handle rdp:// links which would let you call it from a launcher of your choice or even via open on the command line. From 10.4, you can now pass parameters to scripts run with oscascript. From that page: Any arguments following the script will be passed as a list of strings to the direct parameter of the ``run' handler. For example: a.scpt: on run argv return 'hello, ' & item 1 of argv & '.' End run% osascript a.scpt world hello, world.

You can have one or more instances of Eggplant Functional running tests from the command line while you continue to develop and run scripts in GUI mode.
• You can add a command-line call to Eggplant Functional at the end of a product build script to perform a smoke test of the new build.
• You can use Windows Scheduled Tasks (or Unix crontab or at command on Mac and Linux) to schedule Eggplant Functional scripts to run at specific times.

Eggplant Functional script from the command line and have Ask or Answer commands in scripts, you should set default values for the information that would otherwise be obtained from the user.

You can run Eggplant Functional scripts from a command line two ways:

The runscript command, which runs scripts without launching the Eggplant Functional GUI.
• The Eggplant command, which launches the Eggplant Functional GUI, then runs scripts.

The Runscript Command

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Important: For Mac installations of Eggplant Functional version 18.0 and later, the path to call the runscript command has changed to /Applications/Eggplant.app/Contents/MacOS/runscript. You might need to update tests created in earlier versions of Eggplant Functional to prevent errors. You also can click the Install runscript in /usr/bin/local button in Eggplant > Preferences > Run Preferences to add the runscript command to your user path. This allows runscript to be called from any directory via the command line.

If you're running Eggplant Functional on a Mac and using a version older than 18.0, the runscript command path remains /Applications/Eggplant.app/runscript.

Mac

/Applications/Eggplant.app/Contents/MacOS/runscript /Users/Alex/Documents/appTests.suite/Scripts/test1.script /Users/Alex/Documents/appTests.suite/scripts/test2.script

Eggplant Functional saves the results of each script run in the Results folder for that script's suite. Then, after all scripts have finished running, Eggplant Functional reports the number of successful scripts as the return value.

Note: The Linux installation of Eggplant Functional sets environment variables so you can call the runscript command from any directory by specifying only its name.

Note: To have Eggplant Functional report script successes instead of failures, set the -ReportFailures flag to no. For more information about command line options, see Command Line Options.

Note: The Ask and Answer commands don't prompt for input when run from the command line. If you intend to use this approach and have Ask or Answer commands in scripts, you should set default values for the information that would otherwise be obtained from the user. For information about using these commands, see User Interaction.

The Eggplant command opens the Eggplant Functional GUI from the command line. You can use it to open the application and run scripts, or you can use it to simply open the application.

Mac

/Applications/Eggplant.app/Contents/MacOS/Eggplant

Linux

Eggplant

Note: The Linux installation of Eggplant Functional sets environment variables so that you can launch the Eggplant GUI application from any directory by specifying only its name.

Note: When you launch the Eggplant Functional GUI from the command line, the standard output is not displayed in the terminal. Instead, it is saved as a log in the Application SupportEggplant directory of your user account.

Eggplant Functional supports the passing of parameters to scripts even when you run them from a command line. You can pass a single parameter, multiple parameters, parameter and value pairs for multiple parameters, and even lists. Parameter values are passed as text strings to the script immediately preceding them. Keep this in mind if you are running multiple scripts in a command.

The parameters term refers to what you pass to your scripts.

The parameter values term refers to the values you are passing for the parameters to your scripts.

The arguments term refers to the options you pass to the runscript or EggPlant commands. For example, -param is an argument. See Command Line Options for a list of these arguments.

If you are running a schedule from a command line, the parameters you specify after the suite are passed to each script that is run in the schedule.

Following are the syntax and rules for using -param to pass parameter values to scripts at the command line:

Provide the runscript or Eggplant command first followed by a space, as described in Runscript Command or Eggplant Command above.
Note: Whether or not you need to provide the full path to the runscript or Eggplant command, script, or suite depends on which directory you are in when you run the command. On Linux, the Eggplant Functional installer sets variables so that you don't need to provide the path to the runscript or EggPlant commands.
1. Specify the script you want to run, followed by a space.
2. Provide the -param argument immediately following the script, followed by a space.
3. Provide the parameter value you want to pass to the script, enclosed in double quotes. If you need to pass multiple parameters, you must specify the -param argument with each one.

Note: If you are running multiple scripts, you must include -param with the appropriate parameter values with each script.

Note: You can also specify parameters before script names as default parameters. If you include any parameters after a script name, those parameters are passed to the script.

Eggplant Functionalschedules let you collect scripts together that you want to run in a sequence. For more information about schedules, see Running Scripts using Eggplant Functional Schedules.

Examples:

Windows

Eggplant Functional Schedules.

Keyword-driven testing enables you to use keywords to represent functionality you want to test in an external table, along with arguments (data) for each keyword. You can run keyword-driven tests from the command line using the runscript command followed by the path to the table to be executed. For more information about keyword-driven testing, see The Tables Feature and Keyword-Driven Testing.

Mac

/Applications/Eggplant.app/Contents/MacOS/runscript /Users/Greg/Documents/AppTests.suite/TableScripts/TableName.table

My DocumentsAppTests.suiteTableScriptsTableName.table'

Running Gherkin Features

Examples:

Windows:

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