Vadim Gritsenko wrote:
Sylvain Wallez wrote:
I want to do some automated load testing on a flowscript/cform application involving a sequence of pages. The problem is that the continuation IDs must be extracted from a page to be re-injected in the next request.
Have some of you already tackled this problem?
I hear that testing tools [1] not necessarily have to record a test script as series of URLs to playback, but have an ability to declare links you want to follow or buttons to click based on the text of the link or value of the button.
I think that generally this is the appropriate way to do it.
If you do not want to follow this route, you can (relatively) easily pass continuation ID as a request parameter, as a session attribute, or as a cookie.
Having the test runner simulating clicks on the page or transmitting form parameters are certainly the cleanest solution, but it requires a manual intervention on the test scenario (i.e. we have to "code" the scenario), wehereas being able to replay a recorded session allows to quickly set up test scenarios without requiring manual modification on the test script.
That's what this proposal allows, and I guess both have their usefulness.
Anyway, thanks for the hints!
Sylvain
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