Rename EXE before running tests

[Steffen Binas]

I have several hundred test cases in my application which take some minutes to complete. Using TestInsight I cannot continue working as the exe is running and cannot be overwritten by the compiler. What could help would be renaming the .exe before executing. So I could code/compile/run while tests are running completely in the background.

[Stefan Glienke]

You can achieve this using the tool options.

Create a simple program like this:

program CopyAndRun;

uses
  ShellAPI,
  SysUtils,
  Windows;

var
  exeName: string;
  newPath: string;
  newExeName: string;
begin
  exeName := ParamStr(1);
  newPath := ExtractFilePath(exeName) + 'TestInsight\';
  newExeName := ChangeFilePath(exeName, newPath);
  ForceDirectories(ExtractFileDir(newExeName));
  CopyFile(PChar(exeName), PChar(newExeName), False);
  ShellExecute(0, 'open', PChar(newExeName), nil, nil, SW_SHOW);
end.

And execute from the IDE (main menu -> Tools -> Configure Tools).

Add the CopyAndRun.exe in program and in parameters you add: $EXENAME

This will call the CopyAndRun.exe with the name of the exe of the currently active project.

[Steffen Binas]

I followed your advice and modified CopyAndRun to fit my needs. It works much better than running via old DUnit-GUI. It pays off that TestInsight works as a rest server. Thank you. The only drawbacks are that I cannot use "Test On Save" and "Test On Idle" this way and I cannot stop the tests via TestInsight-GUI.