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Using Events and Dependencies to Coordinate Execution

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Chapter 7 - Creating Functional Testing Suites

To insert a synchronization point into a suite:

Click

Suite > Inse

rt > S

ynchronization Point

Note:

For detailed procedures, see the TestManager Help.

For more information about how synchronization points work, see How
Synchronization Points Work on page 288.

Using Events and Dependencies to Coordinate Execution

An event is a mechanism that coordinates the way items are run in a suite. For
example, you cannot test whether an application saves changes made to certain
values unless those values have actually changed. You set a dependency on the test
scripts that save changes, which blocks virtual testers until the event (the changes
actually being made) occurs.

You can have multiple events in a suite. Although only one item in a suite can set an
event, many items can depend on an event.