> Weird variable inheritance behaviorPosted by: "villimucho"
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> villimuchoFri Oct 30, 2009 9:57 am (PDT)
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> When I run a suite, very often a variable that's defined in a parent
> page has the wrong value. My layout is basically like this:
>
> Suite1 > Test1, Test2, Test3
>
> Suite2 > Test4, Test5, Test6
>
> Suite1 and Suite2 have a variable with the same name defined, and
> this variable is used by the test cases under those suites.
>
> In some test runs, instead of the value of the variable that's
> defined in the parent showing up, the value from the other suite
> shows up, e.g. Test1 has the value defined in Suite2 rather than the
> one in Suite1.
>
> This only happens to some tests within a suite -- some tests inherit
> the correct variable, some don't. Additionally, there doesn't seem
> to be any pattern to this, as sometimes it works correctly and
> sometimes it doesn't.
>
> Any ideas why this is happening? Are there any workarounds?
This sounds very disturbing. Can you provide a simple example that
fails?
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