Marc,
Thanks for this helpful response. This is indeed exactly what I was looking
for. Unfortunately, I am having difficulty still. When I iterate over the
<macrodef> steps with <repeat>, the properties are not expanded to their
actual values, but instead are placed in the form literally, i.e.
${prop.0.fld}, instead of "value". In other words, where I am expecting
"John" to be placed in my first name field, instead I get the unexpanded
property ${user.0.first_name}. Furthermore, the repeat counter does not
seem to increment. On subsequent loop iterations, the property
${user.0.first_name}, not ${user.1.first_name} is placed in the form field.
I have also tried using value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]", but the results
are the same.
Here is the code for my test:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "../Config/WebTest.dtd"[
<!ENTITY config SYSTEM "../Config/config.xml">
<!ENTITY assertNoError SYSTEM "../modules/assertNoError.xml">
<!ENTITY login SYSTEM "../modules/Loginsteps.xml">
<!ENTITY addUsers SYSTEM "../modules/userAddMultiple.xml"> ]>
<project name="UserTest" basedir="." default="UserTest">
<property name="webtest.home" location="c:/projects/java/canoo" />
<property name="apptest.home"
location="c:/Projects/PhpWebProjects/sunergeo/UnitTests/canoo" />
<property file="${apptest.home}/properties/user.properties"/>
<import file="${webtest.home}/lib/taskdef.xml"/>
<macrodef name="addUser">
<attribute name="index" description="the current loop index"/>
<sequential>
<setInputField name="First" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="Last" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="Address1" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="Address2" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="City" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="State" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="Zip" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="Country" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setCheckbox name="CanEmail" checked="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setCheckbox name="CanNewsletter"
checked="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="Email" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="password" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<setInputField name="ConfirmPass" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
<clickButton name="submit" description="Click the submit button to add
the user"/>
&assertNoError;
</sequential>
</macrodef>
<target name="UserTest" description="Creating user records for subsequent
tests">
<webtest name="UserTest">
&config;
<steps>
<repeat count="1">
<addUser index="#{count}" />
</repeat>
</steps>
</webtest>
</target>
</project>
============================================================================
==============================================
The properties file looks like this:
user.0.first_name=Bill
user.0.last_name=Smith
user.0.address1=101 W 1st
user.0.address2=
user.0.city=Tyler
user.0.state=TX
user.0.zip=75701
user.0.country=United States
user.0.can_email=true
user.0.can_newsletter=true
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
user.0.password=fuzzyduck
Any ideas on what I've done wrong?
Shawn Bradley
President, Sunergeo Systems, Inc.
www.sunergeosystems.com
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Marc Guillemot
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 2:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Webtest] Testing with lists of input data
Hi Shawn,
if I correctly understand, you have properties like
categ.name.0=first categ
categ.name.1=second categ
...
and want to iterate over this categs. Right?
The repeat loop provides the counter variable but nested properties
evaluation like ${categ.name.#{counter}} is currently not available. The
workaround is to externalize the body of your repeat loop in a macro:
<macrodef name="myRepeatBody">
<attribute name="index" description="the current loop index"/>
<sequentials>
<setInputField forLabel="Category" value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "/>
...
</sequentials>
</macrodef>
and
<webtest ...>
...
<repeat count="...">
<myRepeatBody index="#{counter}"/>
</repeat>
</webtest>
Happy Testing,
Marc.
Shawn Bradley 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
>
>
>
