Qentinel Pace Action

This action runs a test suite in Qentinel Pace and validates that it passes.

Example usage

First create a Personal access token in Pace. You can create one for yourself in your profile settings. After you have created the token, add it as a GitHub secret.

Then navigate to a test suite in Pace. Extract the project_id and the suite_id from the url of the page:

Then in your GitHub workflow .yaml file:

uses: qentinelqi/qentinel-pace-action@1.0.2
with:
  access_token: ${{ secrets.<NAME_OF_YOUR_SECRET> }}
  suite_id: <id_of_your_suite>
  project_id: <id_of_your_project>

That is all that is needed. For a concrete example, please see the main.yml file in this repository. For general instructions on how to use GitHub actions, see here.

Additional settings

The following optional variables can be added to the with section to configure the action:

with:
  ...
  
  # Options to control step execution
  wait_result: "true"
  ignore_failed: "false"
  
  # Options for the run
  branch: "branch"
  record: "all"
  runType: "dry"
  tag: "tag"

Outputs

The following output variables will be set

• build_id: The buildId of the run
• result: The result of the test suite run
• duration: The execution time in seconds
• link: Link to the results

Development

These instructions are for developing this action.

GitHub instructions.

Note that the node_modules folder is included because it is required when running JavaScript based actions.

Testing

You can test this action outside GitHub with mocha.

First set proper action inputs in the test_inputs.json file in the root of this repository. Then run the tests:

mocha test