Synopsis¶

To let Squish start an AUT with a specific working directory, one can use the AUT Working Directory test suite settings.

However, it can be required to determine the desired working directory at test case/script runtime, then this settings would not be useful. A simple alternative is to launch the application through a shell script/batch file, which first sets the working directory as needed.

Windows¶

• Download start_aut_with_cwd.bat and copy the file into the test suite directory.

• In test script:

  # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
  
  import names
  
  
  def main():
      start_aut_with_cwd(
          os.getenv("WINDIR"),
          f'{os.getenv("SQUISH_PREFIX")}/examples/qt/addressbook/addressbook',
          '"en"')
  
  
  def start_aut_with_cwd(cwd, aut, aut_arguments_quoted):
      helper_batch = f'{squishinfo.testCase}/../start_aut_with_cwd.bat'
  
      cmd = f'"{helper_batch}" "{cwd}" "{aut}" {aut_arguments_quoted}'
      test.log(f'CMD: {cmd}')
  
      return startApplication(cmd)

Related Information¶

• Shell Scripts and .bat-Files as AUT (Squish manual)

• cwd