ServiceNow ATF - New York Parallel Testing

[Gerald Onyia]

My company's ServiceNow TEST instance is now on New York. Part of New York's Release Notes is that New York now supports parallel testing.

My question is how do I enable or set this up? When running my Test Suite, it is running the same way that it did in Madrid. The current Test is being run while the others are pending.

I thought the idea of "parallel" testing is that all would be in state of "Running" at the same time if the max instance resource allocation is not met. All Tests are Client-Runner Tests by the way. Not sure if this affects anything.

Any help/advice/suggestions would be very much appreciated!

[guided by books · Accepted solution]

I interpreted that new feature in a different way.  A test suite will still process sequentially, but you can launch multiple sessions (different browsers?  different machines?) that will not cause cross talk failures if running parallel tests, as long as certain conditions are met.

You need to make sure the different tests / suites are focused on different areas, so you would not want to launch five different suites that all hammer the Request tables at the same time.  Maybe have one dedicated to Incident, another to Request, another to Change.

If I'm wrong I hope somebody corrects me.

[Gerald Onyia]

Thanks for the response! Do you know if one can run multiple Test Suites on the same machine and browser session?

[Brad Tilton]

Hi Gerald, you should be able to run them from the same machine, but I would launch the test runners separately in different sessions. The main thing is you would need separate test runner tabs/browser windows for each parallel suite.

[Shan C]

Hello - Can anyone help on this please?

https://www.servicenow.com/community/developer-forum/atf-run-same-test-suite-in-parallel-with-2-diff...