Benefits of version control in a software project doesn't need any explanation. Adopting the same in test automation will benefit even teams have more than one member. In this post, we can see, what are all the files needed to be checked in the version control and how to maintain the setup.

Most of the files generated by QEngine can be opened using a text editor. Only files with QED extensions are binary files. You can only import those files in QEngine.

When you create a suitea folder with the same name created under /projects. It contains conf,webscript folders.

Conf folder - Has all the configuration related files
dataset - Contains data files
webscripts - Contains script files. Every script created will have a folder with the same name, which contains .wcs file and a map file if the script uses local level map. Information about the recorded objects is stored in an xml file which will be located in the conf folder, if the script uses global level map.

All the three folders can be checked in the version control system. If you're using the custom scripts files which will be located in /jars folder, you can check in that too.

You can replace the files in the same directory, if the original ones are lost or if you want to revert to the previous entires.

Rajasankar
rajasankar at zohocorp dot com