RE: looping though suite of tests

Jason,

We use the dataDriven all the time in webtest scripts without problem.

Is it possible there is a typo in the header row of your excel spreadsheet? This header row has the name of the properties that are to be replaced in your script.

Here is a working example from  our suite:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "../../dtd/Project.dtd">
<project default="keywords">
  <target name="keywords">
    <dataDriven tableContainer="properties/adaptec/keywords.xls">
      <webtest name="keyword regression test on ${domain}${page}"  >
        <config
          autorefresh="true"
          haltonerror = "false"
          haltonfailure = "false"
          easyajax="true"
          useInsecureSSL="true"
		  browser="FF3">
          <option name="ThrowExceptionOnFailingStatusCode" value="false"/>
          <option name="ThrowExceptionOnScriptError" value="false" />
        </config>
        <steps>
          <invoke
            url="${domain}${page}" 
            description="Find keyword on ${domain}${page}" />
       	  <verifyText text="${keyword.1}" />
          <verifyText text="${keyword.2}" />
          <verifyText text="${header}" />
          <verifyText text="${footer}" />
          <not>
            <verifyText text="an error occurred while processing this directive" /> 
          </not>   
          <verifyImages />
        </steps>
      </webtest>
    </dataDriven>
  </target>
</project>

Attached is a sample of a working excel spreadsheet for this test.

Cheers,

Tim Pezarro
Manager, Web Services
Corporate Marketing
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] on behalf of Jason Little
Sent: Tue 6/21/2011 2:54 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Webtest] looping though suite of tests
 
Hi,

We're looking at Webtest to create some smoketests for our app.  I am
using DataDriven to grab a list of client sites to test and then
running multiple tests in that loop but I can't seem to get properties
working.

Alltests.xml file:
------------------------


<?xml version="1.0"?>

<project default="test">
	<target name="test" description="runs all the tests">
		<dataDriven tableContainer="WebtestConfig.xls">
								
					<ant antfile="test_UserCanLogin.xml"/>
			
		</dataDriven>
	
	</target>
</project>


test_UserCanLogin.xml file:
======================
<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "../dtd/Project.dtd">

<project default="test">

	<target name="test">
	<webtest name="check ${ClientName} Login works">
		
	
<invoke url="http://${SITEIP}/login.aspx" description="Go to
${ClientName} Login Page"/>
<setInputField xpath="//input[contains(@id,'txtUserName')]" value="XXXXXXXX" />
<setInputField name="txtPassword" value="XXXXXX" />
<clickButton htmlId="btnSubmit" />
<verifyText text="Dashboard"/>
		
	</webtest>
	</target>
	</project>


When the running test output is echo'd in the java console I see the
property from the xls config file is generated "check MyClient Login
works".  The actual test steps themselves show ${ClientName} instead
of "MyClient".

I'm not sure why the value from the xls file shows in <webtest> but
not the test steps.

I'm new to WebTest, any ideas or should I look at Groovy to do
something like this?  (I'm not a programmer by the way...)  Basically
our goal is to smoketest the same functionality for multiple client
sites as post-deployment validation.
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