How to delete log results from Selenium RC? - selenium

When I build my test I generate a server log file, which is good. The problem is that after several runs it becomes very long and it's hard to get orientate with it.
Is there any way to delete this file every run and than create it?

Have a look at the workspace cleanup plugin, with that you can add a build environment configuration to clean up specific files, in Advanced... panel you can limit deletion to certain patterns, e.g. **/*.log.
If your log file is managed outside your job's workspace, add a new build step at beginning of type Execute shell script to manually delete the log file. This works with jobs of type freestyle.

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Using Cro run for rebuilding changed client side files

cro run stops the server, recompiles, restarts the server when anything in the directory tree changes. That's great.
But when developing the client side UI, and using NPX/yarn/webpack, there is an additional step that is needed to produce the main.js file.
In the Cro tutorial this step seems to be done manually, viz., we have the line "And there we have it. npm run build, refresh, and give it a spin." Here npm run build is a command that has to be run 'manually'.
Is there a simple way, eg., using .cro.yml to force another command when changes in a sub-directory tree are detected? Eg, if the client side UI files are under path/to/cro-app/client-ui-directory and the command to be run if any files change is path/to/cro-app/client-ui/directory/yarn build
The cro-tools repo has all the file watching code associated with cro run.
So, one way would be to subclass the appropriate stuff in that repo and make a super-cro run command.
But I think the thing to do would be to set up a file watcher and trigger the rebuild in your server process. Cro files set environment variables, so you could use them to configure this behavior.

Intellij produces unit test log output files in /tmp/idea_test_*.out, prefixed by NORMAL_OUTPUT

Whenever a run a unit test in Intellij (org.junit.Test), a file of the form /tmp/idea_test_*.out is produced containing some log output that looks similar to log entries that are produced by the tests but seeming with each line prefixed by "NORMAL_OUTPUT". I've grepped the codebase and it seems that neither the string "NORMAL_OUTPUT", nor the string "idea_test" is present in the repository, though I suspect some plugin or setting that I can't yet find. Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this?
I checked the log output location specified in Run/Debug Configurations > Logs > Save console output to file. This setting is not set.
These files are created by this code and are normally deleted automatically here. This is entirely part of IntelliJ IDEA's normal functioning; it is not controlled by any setting or plugin.
The location of the tmp files is governed by the JVM system property java.io.tmpdir. I found that adding this to the bin/idea.properties file had no effect on my installation, so I just edited the startup script to add the property, e.g.
-Djava.io.tmpdir=/alternative_tmp_dir

How to overwrite Files for Update Procedure

I'm trying to create an updater for my app in VB.NET, No, I do not want to use clickonce, it sucks because I have to deal with managing self signed certs etc.
I know the code to check for new update files:
http://pastebin.com/ZjYBWABu
I also know the code for specifying where those files download to, the issue is I dont want to just download 1 .exe...I want to download all the latest build files which I would have uploaded to my server, which i would have taken from my Bin\release folder of my project.
Then when the updater downloads the files to a directory, it would go to the directory of the application, and somehow overwrite/replace all the files that have changed...maybe by using a hash or something?
I do not know how to proceed with this. What I do know is this.
The updater and the main app would have to be separate so that the updater could do the replacing while the app is closed so it doesn't get file in use errors. After the updater app has finished it would then start up the main app from the new exe.
Would appreciate help here thank you guys.
I am currently working on a project for which I have to implement a similar approach for updates. The project is lengthy, it would take some time to finish. But this is how I have planned to apply the updates:
There will be two main parts of the application Launcher (main application program) and Updater (To download files from server and replace them with the new ones and then launch the new file)
The application will have the option to manually check for update and also to check for update on startup.
If an update is available, it asks the user to apply the update now or later.
If the user selects to apply the update now then Updater application is executed in a separate process and then Launcher application is closed from within the code in Launcher. I have following approaches in my mind to launch another program from within first one and then exit:
Execute the Updater directly from within the Launcher using Process.Start
If that causes problem then as second approach launch command prompt from Process.Start, execute another program (Updater) from command prompt, close the command prompt and then exit the Launcher.
The Updater application then downloads all the relevant files from the server and upon completion old application files are replaced with the new ones.
Update availability information from server will include the new Version_No of application. For the purpose of providing all files for update, I will compress (zip) all of them in a single file named as Application.Version_No (as given by the server).
Upon download completion decompress (unzip) them to a folder named as the same Application.Version_No.
After decompressing all the files in this (Application.Version_No) folder will be copied to the Bin folder of application.
The new application Launcher file is executed in a separate process and Updater application is closed from within the code in Updater.
I have NOT yet tried this scenario as currently my focus is on completing the main application, but surely this must work.
UPDATE:
Another approach to check for updates is to use a bootstrap like application startup. It will be the main entry point of the program. Upon execution it will check for the updates and if there is none the Launcher is executed otherwise it will download the files, replace the old ones and then execute the new / updated Launcher.
For copying / overriding the files
One approach is to include only those files in the compressed (zip) file which are required to be replaced with the old ones and then after the download completes, either directly decompress them to the Bin folder or decompress them to a designated folder and then copy all of them to the Bin folder.
As another approach which seems somewhat lengthy, an additional helper file (XML, text or any other format) could be prepared for the download.
This helper file contains information of updated files like version number of each file, location where these are to be copied etc.
The files may be downloaded to a specific folder named as the new application version.
After downloading all the required files to a specific folder process each file mentioned in the helper file. Compare version of every old file with the new downloaded file. If it is latest then replace it in the folder mentioned in the helper file.
As another step in between all the downloads may be verified prior to copying and replacing.
Built an updater that ships with a daemon. Main project here:
https://github.com/UVLabs/dotNetUpdatify
There should be a way to eliminate the use of the daemon, if i figure it out i will update.

Commit files using jenkins

I have a pre.sql file to be executed everytime that has different content before the jenkins start building.
This brings a problem... Cannot have the same data because can generate errors, so I thought or clean the file after the build or only execute the differeces.
Someone knows or execute the differences or commit the cleaned file using jenkins?
Thanks

Windows Form VB.Net - Attaching empty Directories for Deployment

I'm creating a GUI in order to launch a batch file which then kicks off a Powershell script. The GUI compiles fine and everything works great, however when I go to deploy the file it doesn't actually include any of the empty directories my script relies on.
How can I add empty directories to be included in my published VB form during install?
I don't think you can. Why don't you just do
If Not Directory.Exists(dir) Then
Directory.Create(dir)
End If
for each directory? I would create a list of directories over which to enumerate and run this each time the application is run.
You can always use the post build step to either create the directories you need or do other logic that your program may need such as run a batch file or power-shell script
See the example below. It will create a directory Test in the output directory where the .exe is placed.