OTA QC9.2: Interop ILinkable.BugLinkFactory (Requirement <=> Bug)

[Stollenwerk]

Hi,

I got the following problem when linking requirements to defects with OTA:

Creating several "requirement to bug" links over OTA only works for the first time accessing the IRequirement.BugLinkFactory object. The links are visible in the QC-GUI and the db entries look exactly like the ones created from the QC-GUI.

When I try to add another "requirement to bug" link to the same requirement and different defect, I got an exception telling me "Your Quality Center session has been disconnected. Contact your system administrator for more information" (Unknown error).

IMPORTANT FACT: That only happens if I reconnect between adding links with OTA. Within one connection it is possible to add several bugs to an requirement - Same requirement but different instances.

Here's the snippet:

[1] IBug bug = ...
[2] IReq2 requirement = ...
[3] ILinkable linkable = (ILinkable) requirement;
[4] ILinkFactory linkFactory = (ILinkFactory) [5] linkable.BugLinkFactory;
[6] ILink link = (ILink) linkFactory.AddItem (bug);
[7] link.Post ();
[8] //Reconnect and start with [1] (second bug)

On [6] the exception is thrown (after reconnect). I also tried linkFactory.AddItem (bug.Id) and linkFactory.AddItem (System.DBNull.Value) followed by setting the TargetEntity - no luck.

Adding the first buglink with QC-GUI and (reconnect) adding the second buglink with OTA works. (reconnect) Adding a third buglink with OTA results in the exception.

Adding the first buglink with OTA and adding the second and third buglink with QC-GUI works. (reconnect) Adding another buglink with OTA results in the exception.

It looks like the modified requirement BugLinkFactory is corrupt or maybe locked after adding links to it. As I mentioned before only reconnecting causes the problem.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance and best regards,
Thomas

[Suleena Sharma]

I am trying to link a posted requirement to a defect , but it fails the first time as well. This is because I do not have the requirement id .

Are you able to create a link between a requirement and defect with just the requirement object or name via vbscript? If yes please let me know

thanks

[Stollenwerk]

Linking requirements and defects works fine for me. My problem seems to occur after the reconnect.

The following should link a requirement object with a bug (not translated to vbscript):

ILinkable linkable = (ILinkable) YourReqObj;
ILink link = (ILink) YourReqObj.BugLinkFactory.AddItem (YourBugObj);
link.Post ();

Hope this might help.

Regards,
Tom

[Suleena Sharma]

Thanks a lot. The problem is that vbscript is not implememting Ilinkable or link object . I could only create the Bug, req and Linkfactory objects.

maybe I am missing something, not sure what.

[fachexot]

I know that the original first post is from 2009, but I decided to try my luck. Maybe there is some answer out there waiting for me 🙂

I got nearly the same problem.

My BugLinkFactory object does not create a NewList("") after a reconnect. In one session, everything is working fine, but when I reconnect (in my case by cancelling the operation and starting it again) the QC connection, it fails and throws an exception respectively access violation in OTAClient.dll (literally like: "access violation at 0x00000000")

Is there any hint, why this happens only when reconnecting and only with BugLinkFactory? For example TestFactory is working fine....

Thank you in advance,

fachexot

[RajuThomas]

Please psot couple of statements in your code (before and after the statement wher it errors) or you closing and reconnecting statement. Thanks!