[qmtest] passing data from one test to another

[Mark Mitchell]

J C wrote:

>Are there any mechanisms in QMTest to pass data
>between 2 different tests during run-time?
>
>For example I have a test suite with 2 tests ordered:
>test1, test2(with prerequisite test1). When test1 is
>done executing I want to pass some data test1 obtained
>to test2 (which test2 will use during its execution).
>
>  
>
We don't make that easy because we don't think it is good test design.

QMTest is designed so that each test is independent.  Prerequisites are 
optimization hints, like "if this test fails, there is no point in 
running these other tests" -- they are not ways of passing data between 
tests. 

We do, however, provides "resources" which can construct data that is 
shared across tests -- and data from resources appears in the context of 
tests that depend on those resources.

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