I've been able to work around this by not depending on the inherited variable and instead specifying the variable explicitly in every test page, but it's still very strange that it's happening.
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fitnesse@..., "villimucho" <villimucho@...> wrote:
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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:
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> Suite1 > Test1, Test2, Test3
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> Suite2 > Test4, Test5, Test6
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> Suite1 and Suite2 have a variable with the same name defined, and this variable is used by the test cases under those suites.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any ideas why this is happening? Are there any workarounds?
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