Simplify and extend report file
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Key: WT-252
URL: http://webtest-community.canoo.com/jira/browse/WT-252
Project: WebTest
Type: Task
Versions: 2.1
Reporter: Marc Guillemot
Assigned to: Marc Guillemot
Standard report mode generates a xml file and saves all received responses in
the same directory. This works fine but...
1) report format should be simplified
for instance
<step>
<parameter name="description" value="Enter the application"/>
<parameter name="label" value="login"/>
<parameter name="taskName" value="clickLink"/>
<result>
<completed duration="1668"/>
</result>
...
could be simplified in something like
<step taskName="clickLink" description="Enter the application"
status="completed" duration="1668">
<parameter name="label" value="login"/>
making xslt selectors easier to write
2) Additional information could be provided in the report like:
- failure cause (more readable than stack trace - which should still be
provided -)
- step locations
- unevaluated property values
- javascript warnings & errors
3) it doesn't scale very well
the result of each single test is appended to the result file (what requires
complete parsing each time) producing huge result files for larger test suites.
A solution could be to create a subdirectory per <webtest> wich could contain
the xml result file as well as all received responses. This would imply
modification in the generation of the html reports but would bring more
flexibility: possibility to simply delete all results of a single <webtest>, to
add the results of an other one, ...
Such changes wouldn't impact user of the standard WebTest stylesheet for report
generation but could cause problem to the one who have customized the reports.
Depending of the number of persons impacted different ways can be followed:
- just perform the switch when it's ready, users of customized xslt can upgrade
once they've adapted their reports
- provide the current report generator separately (for instance on the
community site)
- maintain both report modes
Comments are welcome.
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