RE: Where does WebTest run?

Partick,

You can also use a fully qualified domain name in the invoke step.

For example:
<invoke        url="http://www.yahoo.com" />

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] on behalf of Lisa Crispin
Sent: Mon 7/25/2011 12:29 PM
To: Patrick Burghardt
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Webtest] Where does WebTest run?
 
Right. So the script that invokes the site has:
    <invoke description="Go to main page"
            url="control.jsp?fid=${fid}"/>
and that completes the url that starts with hostname and port.


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Patrick Burghardt <[email protected]> wrote:


		Thanks, Lisa.

	 

	Does hostname just provide a base url onto which we can add relative url's to invoke?  I am looking for a way to call a url from the server instead of from my local machine.

	 

		 
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			From: Lisa Crispin [mailto:[email protected]] 
	Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 2:46 PM
	To: [email protected]; Patrick Burghardt
	Subject: Re: [Webtest] Where does WebTest run?

	 

	We use variables for hostname and port in the config.xml file, and pass those in as -D parameters when we run the test, eg., here is a script I use to run locally:
	ant -DwebTestSrc=/Users/lcrispin/code/fast401k/src/web_test -Dwebtesthome=/Users/lcrispin/canoo -Dhostname=chester  -Dport=80 -DresultsPath=/Users/lcrispin/canoo/logs/chester_results -DcanooTestToRun=$1.xml run-one-cano
	
	Here's my config.xml:
	<config 
	    host="${hostname}"
	    browser="IE7"
	    protocol="http"
	    port="${port}"
	    basepath="/"
	    resultpath="${resultsPath}"
	    resultfile="result.xml"
	    summary="true"
	    showhtmlparseroutput="false"
	    saveresponse="true"
	    haltonerror="false"
	    haltonfailure="false"
	    easyajax="true" >
	    <option name="ThrowExceptionOnScriptError" value="true"/>
	</config>
	
	Here's the ant target for that in the build.xml:
	         <!-- the canoo tests are run using wt.full found in webtest.xml residing in the canoo home directory
	               webtest.xml is included at the top of build.xml -->
	    <target name="run-one-canoo" depends="init" description="Runs specified canoo test (requires running application).">
	        <property name="wt.testInWork" value="${test.webtest.scripts.dir}/${canooTestToRun}"/>
	        <echo message="wt.full in ${webtesthome}"/>
	        <antcall target="wt.full" />
	    </target>
	
	Does that help? In our Jenkins build, we pass parameters via the Jenkins config.
	-- Lisa

	On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Patrick Burghardt <[email protected]> wrote:

	I have WebTest running on my local computer.  I want it to run on a server to which I have mapped a drive, but I still want to control it from my local drive.  I test this by going to a website that tells me what my IP address is.  I can specify webtest.home to be on the server, but I still show my local IP.  

	 

	Maybe my question is most simply stated: What determines which environment I am simulating?

	
	
	
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	Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009)
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Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009)
http://lisacrispin.com
@lisacrispin on Twitter
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