In this article, you will get familiar with the procedural steps to set up BI Validator CLI tool for CI/CD integration. Before you proceed, ensure the BI Validator Server is installed and configured to run with a PostgreSQL or Oracle Repository.
- Download and extract the BIValidatorCLI.jar file in any preferred location. Open command prompt and change the directory to the location where BIValidatorCLI.jar is placed.
- Execute the java -jar BIValidatorCLI.jar command to list out the available commands.
- Execute the java -jar BIValidatorCLI.jar –runTestPlan command to understand how to use the runTestPlan method.
- To execute a test plan with ID 1, pass arguments for that method shown in above screen like
java -jar BIValidatorCLI.jar -runTestPlan -username admin -password 9D03kcEhuhOVXi7COmC6Kw== -tid 1 -url http://localhost:8080/BIValidatorService
The Test Plan ID can be found in the ‘Start’ step of the test plan, which is available to the ‘Name’ field as shown in the image below: - Optionally, add all the details about the test plan in json file and give the path of the file to the command as shown below:
java -jar BIValidatorCLI.jar -runTestPlan –file E:/bitest.json -url http://localhost:8080/BIValidatorService
