RE: examples of how to test emails?

Lisa,

I have been testing email successfully for about 18 months. You need to send the mail you wish to test to a mail server that supports POP. There is an important work around that you need to use wich is to invoke a url prior to the "emailMessageContentFilter" step. Thanks to a John Spann at Citrix for helping me with this.

Here is a working example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "../../dtd/Project.dtd">
<project default="ConfirmActivation">
  <target name="ConfirmActivation">
    <webtest name="ConfirmActivation on ${mailserver}">
      <config
        haltonerror="false"
        haltonfailure="false"
        useInsecureSSL="true">
          <option name="ThrowExceptionOnFailingStatusCode" value="false"/>
      </config>  
      <steps>
        <echo message="invoke http url before calling emailMessageContentFilter to work around bug with emailMessageContentFilter"/>
        <invoke url="${bastion.prefix}"/>
        <verifyTitle text="PMC-Sierra - Broadband Communications and Storage Chips"/>
        <emailSetConfig server="${mailserver}" type="${servertype}"
          password="${mpmc.mail.password}" username="${mypmc.mail.username}" delay="5"/>
        <emailStoreMessageId subject="${subject.success}"
          property="message_to_save"/>
        <emailStoreMessageId subject="${subject.success}"
          property="message_to_delete"/>
        <echo message="message id is #{message_to_save}" />
        <emailMessageContentFilter 
          messageId="#{message_to_save}"/>
        <verifyText text="Thank you for activating your www.pmc-sierra.com account" />
        <retry maxcount="10">
          <echo message="find id of first message matching desired subject" />
          <emailStoreMessageId subject="${subject.success}"
            property="message_to_delete" messageIndex="0"/>
          <echo message="delete message" />
          <emailDeleteMessage messageId="#{message_to_delete}" />
          <echo message="see if any remain" />
          <emailStoreMessageCount subject="${subject}"
            property="emailcount"/>
          <verifyProperty name="emailcount" text="0"/>
        </retry>
      </steps>

    </webtest>
  </target>
</project>

Cheers,

Tim Pezarro
Manager, Web Services
Corporate Marketing
tim_pezarro-4W7cOCfLBmzY0TyS/[email protected]
Phone: +1-604-415-6044
Cell: +1-604-762-1000
Fax: +1-604-415-6602
PMC-Sierra, Inc.
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Burnaby, BC, Canada
V5A 4V7



-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] on behalf of Lisa Crispin
Sent: Tue 4/19/2011 11:22 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Webtest] examples of how to test emails?
 
For years I have been curious about the Canoo WebTest steps for testing emails, and now I would like to see if that might be a good way for us to automate tests for emails. We've been using FitNesse fixtures to test them and that seems to have a lot of limitations.

I looked at the manual and Googled for more information on how to test emails with WebTest, but what I don't know is how you get ahold of the email in order to test it in WebTest? 

Does anyone have any examples?

Thanks,
Lisa

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Lisa Crispin
Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
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