Is it possible to run commands in Katalon? - testing

Question

Katalon is popular in automation testing. I have already used it in our project and it works amazingly.
Now, What I want to achieve is to create a test case where it opens a terminal (using mac) and type in some commands to run it like for example:
cd /documents/pem/key.pem
connect to -my server via SSH#method
sudo su
yum install php7
yum install mysql

Answer 1

You are not alone, and with custom keywords you can achieve what you want. Here is an example showing a test of a command line app. You could do the same thing to call any command line script you wish. Think of a runCmd keyword, or a runCmdWithOutput to grab the output and run various asserts on it.
#Keyword
def pdfMetadata(String input) {
KeywordUtil.logInfo("input: ${input}")
def csaHome = System.getenv("CSA_HOME")
def cmd = "cmd /c ${csaHome}/bin/csa -pdfmetadata -in \"${projectPath}${input}\"";
runCmd(cmd)
}
def runCmd(String cmd) {
KeywordUtil.logInfo("cmd: ${cmd}")
def proc = cmd.execute();
def outputStream = new StringBuffer();
def errStream = new StringBuffer()
proc.waitForProcessOutput(outputStream, errStream);
println(outputStream.toString());
println(errStream.toString())
if(proc.exitValue() != 0){
KeywordUtil.markFailed("Out:" + outputStream.toString() + ", Err: " + errStream.toString())
}
}
You can then use this in a test case:
CustomKeywords.'CSA.pdfMetadata'('/src/pdf/empty.pdf')

Answer 2

Here is another custom keyword! It is takes the file name and path, and if you don't give it a path, it search for the file in the project root directory. It export the batch file's output in a batch_reports folder in your project folder, you need to create that in advance.
#Keyword
def runPostmanBatch(String batchName , String batchPath){
// source: https://www.mkyong.com/java/how-to-execute-shell-command-from-java/
String firstParameter = "cmd /c " + batchName;
String secondParameter = batchPath;
if (batchPath == ""){
secondParameter = RunConfiguration.getProjectDir();
}
try {
KeywordUtil.logInfo("Executing " + firstParameter + " at " + secondParameter)
Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(
firstParameter , null, new File(secondParameter));
StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(process.getInputStream()));
String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
output.append(line + "\n");
}
int exitVal = process.waitFor();
Date atnow = new Date()
String now = atnow.format('yy-MM-dd HH-mm-ss')
String report_path = RunConfiguration.getProjectDir() + "/postman_reports/" + RunConfiguration.getExecutionSourceName() + "_" + now + ".txt"
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(report_path));
writer.write(output.toString());
writer.close();
KeywordUtil.logInfo("postman report at: " + report_path)
if (exitVal == 0) {
println("Success!");
println(output);
KeywordUtil.markPassed("Ran successfully")
} else {
KeywordUtil.markFailed("Something went wrong")
println(exitVal);
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

Answer 3

I've done some research. I did not found any resources or any people that is looking for the same thing I am. I think this is officially, No. The answer to this is, it is not possible.

Answer 4

It is possible to run Katalon Studio from the command line.
There's a short tutorial here.
And it will be possible to override Profile Variables via command line execution mode from v5.10 (currently in beta).
An example given on Katalon forum is:
Simply pass the parameters in command line using: -g_XXX = XXX
Below is an example of override an URL variable:
-g_URL=http://demoaut.katalon.com