ANT

How to run tests using ANT

                  Go to http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi

    Click on zip file below the Current Release of Ant title.

      Unzip to a folder the downloaded zip file(ant)

         Go to My Computer-Properties(Right click My Computer)

        Now go to Advanced system settings

        Click on Environment variables then

Step 1

•        Click on New below system variables(creating new environment variables)

•        Enter "ANT_HOME" in variable name field

•        Enter the path(the extracted folder of ant) of ant in variable value field

Eg:  "C:\\ant\apache-ant-1.8.4"(path)

Step 2

•        Scroll down in system variable and find path in variable column

•        Select path and click on edit

•        Now go to variable value, go to end and type ";"(semicolon)

•        Paste the path of the ant("C:\\ant\apache-ant-1.8.4") and add "\bin"

Eg:

 variable value= C:\Program Files\PC Connectivity Solution\;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_26\bin;C:\apache-ant-1.8.4-bin\apache-ant-1.8.4\bin;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\\ant\apache-ant-1.8.4\bin

•        Now click ok.

This completes configuring ant in your system.

To verify whether ant is configured

        Go to cmd prompt and type ant.

Note:

If u get any error message "Unable to locate tools.jar" then

•        Go to program files where java is installed

•        Now  go to jdk-lib folder

•        Copy tools.jar

•        Paste it in jre-lib folder

•        Now run ant in cmd prompt.

Note:

Next if u get error message" Build.xml file doesn't exist" then

->     Place your build.xml file directly in your project(not in source)