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Converting existing test sets to projects

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Working with Projects

Converting existing test sets to a project

Before you begin

Each project is a unique testing environment, so by default new projects do not contain any settings,
such as extensions, class mappings, Agent options, etc. You can specify your settings once in your
new project using the Options dialogs, or you can retain the settings from your current test set, by
saving them as an options set. (Open SilkTest and click Options/Save New Options Set.) You can
include the options set when you create your project. Note that testplan.ini files are not included in
options sets so you must specify your testplan.ini file manually.
SilkTest can automatically generate a new project from an existing file or files, such as plan, script, or
suite files. SilkTest scans the specified files, gathers all references to other files contained within them;
for example, references to subplans, include files, options sets, scripts, window children, functions,
etc., and adds them to the project that it generates. SilkTest searches for the following statements
within files: use, include:, script:, framefile:, optionset:, and usefiles=. See Overview of AutoGenerate
Project and Automatically generating a new project in the online Help for complete details.

To convert existing test sets to a project

1 Click Open Project/New Project on the Basic Workflow bar (Workflows/Basic).

2 On the New Project dialog, double click AutoGenerate Project.

3 On the AutoGenerate Project dialog, type the Project Name and Description.

4 Specify the location in which you want to save your project. We recommend the default location,

<SilkTest installation directory>/Project. SilkTest will create a projectname folder within this
directory, save the projectname.vtp and projectname.ini to this location and copy the extension
.ini files (appexpex.ini, axext.ini, domex.ini, and javaex.ini) to a projectname/extend subdirectory.
If you do not want to save your project in the default location, click Browse and specify the
folder in which you want to save your project.

5 Click Add to select the file from which you want SilkTest to generate a project and then click

Open. The file is added to the list in the Generate from box. Click Add again to select additional
files, if applicable. To add an options set, click Add, select All Files in the Files of type box,
select the options set you want to add, and then click Open. To remove a file from the list, select
the file, and then click Remove.

6 Click OK when you have finished adding files. SilkTest automatically generates a new project

from the file or files you selected. This may take a few moments, depending upon the size of the
files you are converting into projects. SilkTest creates projectname.vtp and projectname.ini files
in the location you specified in the Save in text box and displays the files and resources included
in the automatically-generated project in the Project Explorer.

7 If you added an options set and want to use it, you must load it into memory: on the Files tab,

expand the Profile node, right-click the options set you want to load, and then click Open
Options Set. Note that double-clicking an options set opens it for editing, but does not load it
into memory.

Note Results files, data files, bitmaps, and files included or referenced via File Functions are

not automatically added to your project. You must add these files manually, see "Adding
files to a project" earlier in this tutorial. You can also convert existing tests to a project
by creating a new project and manually adding the files to the project.