Parallel Execution in GitHub Actions using Targets
In ANT execution, everything configured under the target tag is considered part of the execution. ANT allows us to have multiple target tags in the same build.xml file. You can initialize the variables in Github actions using target names in secrets.
The following command is used to execute the build file with targets:
ant -f build.xml target_name
You can run your workflow in parallel using Target by creating different jobs for the individual target.
Example: You have 100 test cases and want to execute 50 test cases in parallel. Then, you can have two targets in the build.xml file, each pointing to the 50 test cases to be completed.
Below is the .yml as an example of parallel execution in Github actions using multiple targets:
# 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 $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Run in chrome env: BROWSER_NAME: Chrome TARGET1:${{secrets.TARGET1}} 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.xml $TARGET1 - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 with: name: Execution Report1 path:${{ github.workspace }}/test/ANT/Results/* - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 if: failure() with: name: Execution Report1 path:${{ github.workspace }}/test/ANT/Results/*
build_ChromeHeadless: 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 $GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your job can access it - uses: actions/checkout@v2 - name: Run build Headless env: BROWSER_NAME: Chrome_Headless TARGET2:${{secrets.TARGET2}} 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.xml $TARGET2 - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2 with: name: Execution Report2 path:${{ 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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