In reply to tpan:
In reply to JH_Engineer:
Have a test configuration file which you should call inside your base test. This configuration file should have the switches to indicate how the ‘request_array’ needs to be populated. This way, in your extended test, the user only needs to correctly assign the test configuration switch to pass the intended values to request_array.
Working with fileIO limits always your flexibility. In most cases you can generate this content following an appropriate algorithm.
But fore me it is still completely unclear what the content of your configuration file is and what do you mean with ‘how the ‘request_array’ needs to be populated’.