is process running
Description
Return a Boolean value to indicate whether a process is running on the mobile test device.
Arguments
process
The process id (aka name, bundle ID or package name) of the process to check. (See Notes section for how to determine process id.)
variable
(Optional) Variable to receive the returned Boolean value.
Valid contexts
This action may be used within the following project items: test modules and user-defined actions.
Notes
- This built-in action applies only to the Android operating system.
- process argument:
- On an Android device, process is the package name of the running application. To retrieve the package name for an Android application:
Open the Android Instrumentation Tool dialog box.
In the Application Under Test panel, right-click the appropriate application, and then select Copy package name.
In the test editor, paste the copied value into the process argument of the built-in action.
- On an Android device, process is the package name of the running application. To retrieve the package name for an Android application:
- variable argument:
- If the variable in argumentvariablehas not been declared, the action creates it as a global.
- If the variable argument is left empty, TestArchitect supplies a global variable with the name _result.
- This action supports the <ignore> modifier. If the string
<ignore>
is present as the value of any of the arguments, or any argument contains an expression that evaluates to<ignore>
, the action is skipped during execution.
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