Trigger test runs
You're ready. You've designed your tests, and you have Elastic Execution Grid Agents Agent machines are the machines on which you execute your tests. They host the Agent Service and the Runners. The Agent Service receives the Flow from the server and directs it to the required Runner. The Runner actually executes the test. to run them.
Now it's time to find out whether your system under test behaves as expected - or if it needs some additional attention. To do so, trigger a test run in Elastic Execution Grid.
Note: the tech preview of Elastic Execution Grid has some size limitations for test artifacts.
Trigger Tricentis Tosca tests
If you created your tests in Tricentis Tosca, you need to trigger the test run in Tricentis Tosca.
For information on how to do so, see the Tricentis Tosca manual.
Trigger tests you created in other test frameworks
If you created your tests in another test framework, you need to trigger your tests via the Elastic Execution Grid API.
For information on how to do so, see the Elastic Execution Grid API Swagger documentation.
Artifact size limitations
You can have an unlimited number of test artifacts in the tech preview of Elastic Execution Grid. However, no test artifact can be bigger than 50MB.
Check test artifact size for non-Tosca tests
If you create your tests with any other framework than Tricentis Tosca, check the file size of the test artifact files that you plan to upload via REST API.
Check test artifact size for Tricentis Tosca tests
If you create your tests in Tricentis Tosca, the execution mode you choose for your ElasticExecutionGridEvent determines what "a test artifact" is:
If you choose the execution mode SequentialSingleMachine, Tricentis Tosca creates a single test artifact out of all TestCases in your ElasticExecutionGridEvent. This test artifact can't be bigger than 50MB.
If you choose the execution mode SequentialMultipleMachines or Parallel, Tricentis Tosca treats every TestCase in your ElasticExecutionGridEvent as a separate test artifact. No single TestCase must be bigger than 50MB.
Currently, there is no option to check artifact size directly in Tricentis Tosca. However, 50MB is plenty. For comparison, the Tricentis Tosca TestCase that you create when you take your AS1 course is around 17KB. So you could pack a good 2,900 AS1 TestCases into your ElasticExecutionGridEvent in SequentialSingleMachine mode before you hit the limit.