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Explain the execution flow when a Ranorex test suite runs against a multi-technology application in CI?

Bringing several of the concepts above together, a full CI run against a desktop-plus-web-plus-mobile product follows one continuous flow, even though it touches multiple technologies along the way.

sequenceDiagram
    participant CI as CI Pipeline
    participant Agent as Ranorex Agent
    participant Suite as Test Suite Runner
    participant Apps as Desktop / Web / Mobile Apps
    participant Rep as Report

    CI->>Agent: Trigger test suite execution
    Agent->>Suite: Load suite, run global Setup
    Suite->>Apps: Execute modules (UI Automation / WebDriver / Appium adapters)
    Apps-->>Suite: Element states, action results
    Suite->>Rep: Log each action + validation as it happens
    Suite->>Suite: Run per-case Teardown, then global Teardown
    Suite->>Rep: Write final HTML/XML report, compute exit code
    Rep-->>CI: Archive report, report exit code to pipeline

The CI pipeline triggers a Ranorex Agent on the target machine, which loads the suite and runs its global Setup once. From there, each test case's modules execute against whichever application they target - a desktop client through UI Automation, a web portal through WebDriver, a mobile app through Appium - all identified through the same RanoreXPath syntax and logged into one continuous report regardless of which technology produced the result.

After every case (and any smart-folder conditions) has been evaluated and each Teardown has run, the suite writes its final report and returns an exit code, which the CI pipeline uses to mark the build pass or fail and archives the report as an artifact - giving the team one unified pass/fail signal and one report to review, even though three different underlying technologies were exercised to produce it.

In a CI run against a multi-technology app, all results end up:
The CI pipeline decides pass/fail for the build based on:

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