John,
it's fun to play with Groovy scripting but to define a property with
current timestamp, Ant tstamp task is surely the simplest way:
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/tstamp.html
Marc.
John and Pip wrote:
Hi Shawn,
I'm pretty new to WebTest, but maybe the way I handle creating a unque
string might be some help:
<groovy description="get a unique string for username based on
datetimestamp">
today = new Date()
step.setWebtestProperty ('DateTimeString', today.toString()[4..6]
+ today.toString()[8..9] + today.toString()[11..12] +
today.toString()[14..15] + today.toString()[17..18] +
today.toString()[25..28])
</groovy>
<property name="username" value="#{DateTimeString}" />
then I proceed to register a new user using this string:
<setInputField name="username" value="${username}"/>
so I guess I'm suggesting you use groovy to set a dynamic property,
which you then access using # rather than $. The dynamic property can
then be updated by further calls - one per "repeat" loop I guess.
I'm not quite sure how you would do the repeat - I think the easiest
way would be to do this whole part of your test in groovy code rather
than try to do this sort of logic in an Ant script. I think you'll be
able to find some examples of using Groovy rather than Ant to drive a
test, but I have not tried this myself yet. I will however need to do
a similar thing myself, e.g. I'd like to be able to test the full
range of allowed and disallowed inputs to a standard web field i.e.
min length, max length, allowed and disallowed characters, range if
numeric; without having to "hard code" all of these variations in an
ant script.
regards,
John
On 1/2/07, Shawn Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am fairly new to WebTest, but so far, I've been able to accomplish just
about everything I need to. However, I am stuck at this particular
requirement.
Our app builds expense reports, and each expense entry references an
expense
category. I am writing tests to exercise the expense category
maintenance
portion of the app. What I want to do is create a property file that
contains the parameters for a dozen or so expense categories. I then
need
my WebTest case to create each of these categories in a loop, using
<repeat>
or some other construct. I DON'T want to have to create the same XML
instructions a dozen or more times to construct the categories in a
linear
fashion.
I have spent hours digging through the newsgroup and mailing list
archives,
and I cannot find an example similar to what I am trying to do. This
seems
like such a common task to me - surely someone else has had a similar
requirement. How do I accomplish this?
Thanks,
Shawn Bradley
President, Sunergeo Systems, Inc.
www.sunergeosystems.com
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