There are many ways you can do this. One way is to change your previous
STAX job (the build job) so that if the build is successful, use a
<stafcmd> element to submit the STAX EXECUTE request to run another STAX
job that runs your regression tests.
Or, you could have use a couple of other services that STAF provides, the
Event and EventManager services, which allow you to trigger things (e.g.
executing a STAX job) when an event occurs (e.g. a build is ready).
The purpose of the EVENT service is to provide an interface to allow
process communication based on events occuring. For instance, a process
registers with the EVENT service that it is interested in builds
completing. A different process tell the EVENT service when a build has
completed. The EVENT service then notifies all processes that have
registered interest in the build completing that the build has completed.
The EventManager service allows you to register with the Event service in
order to execute STAF Commands. When an Event is generated, the Event
Service (which normally sends messages to machines registered for
specified events) will execute a STAF Command via the EventManager. The
EventManager service also provides a User Interface to simplify
interaction with the EventManager service Note that EventManager
registration information is persistent data. This means that if you
register with the EventManager service, if you shutdown STAF and restart
it (even if you reboot the machine), the prior registration information
will still be active. When STAF starts, it reads in the previous
EventManager registration information, and again registers each STAF
command with the Event service.
So, you could register with the EventManager service to submit a STAX
EXECUTE reuest whenever a build event with a particular type/subtype is
generated and when a build is complete, have it enerate a build event by
submitting a GENERATE request to the EVENT service (which will trigger the
STAX regression test job to run).
To find out more about these STAF services, go to
http://staf.sourceforge.net/getservices.php and there are links to the
STAF Event Service User's Guide and the EventManager Service User's Guide
and links to download these services. Note that the Event service is
provided with STAX (as it is used by the STAX Monitior) and you may
already have it registered in your STAF.cfg file. You'll want to download
and register the EventManager service in your STAF.cfg file in order to
use it.
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Sharon Lucas
IBM Austin, luc...@us.ibm.com
(512) 286-7313 or Tieline 363-7313
From: Cindy Zhu <c...@fekete.com>
To: "staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net"
<staf-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: 05/10/2011 10:42 AM
Subject: [staf-users] How to put a STAX job in a queue
Hi,
I need to put a STAX job in a queue.
Currently, I have the following STAF command to run a STAX job:
STAF 1693W7.Fekete.com STAX EXECUTE FILE
D:\DistributionTesting\SilkTestDistribution\RunOnTestPCs.xml MACHINE
1693W7.Fekete.com JOBNAME "Silk" SCRIPT "VERSION='1.1.1.1'" SCRIPT
"PRODUCT='HARMONY'"
1693W7.Fekete.com is the test host machine of the test clients. The STAX
job here is to run the regression test on the test clients whenever a
build is ready. We have specific machines to run the regression test for a
specific application. We can only run the same STAX job on those machines
only when the previous STAX job is finished.
Can you please help?
BTW, I searched the forum and I cannot get the exact answer of how to do
this.
Thanks,
Cindy
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