Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using Multiple build.xml Files
In parallel execution in GitHub actions using multiple build.xml files, you can test different modules or applications on various browsers in parallel rather than one by one. Numerous versions or subcomponents of an application are tested with the same input on other systems simultaneously to reduce test execution time. Parallel execution enables faster testing and a quicker turnaround in deployments.
You can achieve parallel execution by running the Jobs in parallel using multiple build.xml files. In the example below, we execute 20 test cases with two build.xml files and ten different test cases associated with each. We run them in different browsers/modes, i.e., one in Chrome and the second in Chrome Headless mode.
It would be best to create separate jobs for running your build.xml, as you can only run your jobs parallelly in GitHub actions.
Given below is an example of parallel execution in GitHub Actions:
# This is a basic workflow to help you get started with Actions name: CI # Controls when the action will run. Triggers the workflow on push or pull request # events but only for the master branch on: workflow_dispatch: # A workflow run is made up of one or more jobs that can run sequentially or in parallel jobs: build_Chrome: runs-on: ubuntu-latest # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job steps: # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - uses: actions/setup-java@v1 with: java-version: 1.8 - name: Run the test cases in Chrome env: BROWSER_NAME: Chrome PROVAR_SECRETSPASSWORD: ${{secrets.PASSWORD}} run: | mkdir $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/ProvarHome curl -O https://download.provartesting.com/latest/Provar_ANT_latest.zip unzip -o Provar_ANT_latest.zip -d ProvarHome rm Provar_ANT_latest.zip sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - sudo echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >>sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list sudo apt-get -y install google-chrome-stable sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next && sudo apt install firefox echo $PROVAR_HOM cd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/test/ANT ant -f build_Chrome.xml - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 with: name: Execution Report1 path:${{ github.workspace }}/test/ANT/Results/* - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 if: failure() with: name: Execution Report1 path:${{ github.workspace }}/test/ANT/Results/*
# This workflow contains a single job called "build" build_ChromeHeadless: # The type of runner that the job will run on runs-on: ubuntu-latest # Steps represent a sequence of tasks that will be executed as part of the job steps: # Checks-out your repository under $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - uses: actions/setup-java@v1 with: java-version: 1.8 - name: Run the test cases in headless mode env: BROWSER_NAME: Chrome_Headless PROVAR_SECRETSPASSWORD: ${{secrets.PASSWORD}} run: | mkdir $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/ProvarHome curl -O https://download.provartesting.com/latest/Provar_ANT_latest.zip unzip -o Provar_ANT_latest.zip -d ProvarHome rm Provar_ANT_latest.zip sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | sudo apt-key add - sudo echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >>sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list sudo apt-get -y install google-chrome-stable sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next && sudo apt install firefox echo $PROVAR_HOM cd $GITHUB_WORKSPACE/test/AN xvfb-run ant -f build_ChromeHeadlesss.xml - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 with: name: Execution Report2 path:${{ github.workspace }}/test/ANT/Results/* - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 if: failure() with: name: Execution Report2 path:${{ github.workspace }}/test/ANT/Results/*
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