Hi all,
I made some potentially troublesome changes. In order to make an
Assertion model, I needed Controllers to act more consistently. To that end,
I created two types of controllers - logical and generative. Logical
controllers simply change the behavior of the test. Generative controllers
generate test samples.
Previously, you could create a Web Test controller and add many UrlConfigs to
it to create multiple test samples. This, in effect, was like saying
UrlConfigs, which are ConfigElements, could create test samples. I've
changed it so that this does not happen anymore - every individual test
sample must be represented by a Web Test controller.
The benefits are:
1. Easier to code controllers since there more common code that now lives in
parent classes (AbstractGenerativeController, and LogicController).
2. Assertions can be added at one point, consistently (ie, to a Controller -
no need for a special case dealing with UrlConfig elements).
3. It's not any harder to create tests - it's a one-to-one replacement of Web
Test controllers for UrlConfigs.
4. Tangentially, making an image-retrieving UrlConfig or a Multipart-form Url
now is only a matter of clicking on a checkbox
The disadvantage is:
1. If you have previous test saved, they can be loaded into JMeter, but
JMeter will no ignore all those UrlConfigs that you thought were test
samples. To update your old tests, you'll have to convert the base Web Test
controller into a LogicController (and add a UrlConfig representing the
common data you had put into the Web Test's default Url), and then convert
each UrlConfig into a WebTest controller with the same data.
Manually, this would be a pain. I'd like to make some more automated way of
converting old test plans into the new version. I think the best place to do
it would be at the loading stage (when the XML is being parsed, or
immediately following the parsing).
Also, on another note, does everyone really like all the log4j debug
statements? To be honest, they seem to mostly obfuscate the code - kind of
like littering your code with comments everywhere. I have a hard time
believing that many log statements is really useful (and typically, when I'm
debugging a problem, I have to add my own print statements anyway, but I take
them out when I'm done, mostly).
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Mike Stover
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