ATF-server script to wait some time

[Community Alums]

Is there any way to write a script using server side step in ATF to make step case to wait for 10 seconds?

[Csaba Rozinyak]

I ended up setting the input variable u_seconds to Integer, but my mistake was that I forgot to go back to the test step itself where I now had a new Seconds field. Then the step waited for the number of seconds I specified in that particular test step (so not in the Step Configuration).

The next challenge is why my test does not proceed from there...

[Jace Benson]

My step is not configured to be 10 seconds hard coded.

https://github.com/jacebenson/atf/blob/f062ab065bc6640e4833474c94314f3f01a16fd9/update/sys_atf_step_config_d2b6a776db5563008096a455ca96192a.xml#L76

It is using parseInt, to ensure it's an integer using the base 10 system.

[Csaba Rozinyak]

Thank you, this has been super useful so far, but I am afraid I still cannot make it work properly since the Client Test Runner seems to be "waiting" indefinitely after this step was run. For example, if I use this step with a 5-second wait ahead of a Set Field Values step, it will first wait for 5 seconds and the results will also say "Waited 5 seconds.", but then it will not set any field values because the screen simply becomes blank while seemingly indefinitely waiting for the Set Field Values step to even start... until I get bored and cancel out of the rest of the test. I assume the script works for you just fine, but I have also tried adding "return;", "return true;"... after your line 82 (stepResult.setSuccess();), so far without any success. Do you have any idea why it is not proceeding? I have no Output defined in the Step Configuration, if that means anything.

[Marcin Vogelsin · Accepted solution]

Hi Jace, 

Perhaps you'd like to consider using gs.sleep() instead of do nothing loop. 
Performance 🙂

Have a good day!

[Jace Benson]

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