Hi,
all the objects are from WebTest, Ant or HtmlUnit and documented in
their respectives Javadoc.
An ifStep step is available in WebTest. If you want to script your
execution flow, you should perhaps do it from Groovy. Programming in xml
is not really the best thing.
Cheers,
Marc.
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Mike B wrote:
Greetings.
I am attempting to use the <ScriptStep> with JavaScript to create some
conditional branches (i.e. flow controls) for WebTest testing scripts.
I am having problems locating the best way to accomplish this.
MY QUESTIONS
1. How do you implement conditional branching using a scripting
solution in WebTest
1. <IFStep> isn't flexible enough for my needs.
2. Where do I find detailed information about the <ScriptStep> objects?
1. This link
<http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/scriptStep.html>describes
the step but not the APIs for the objects it imports.
More details on my questions below.
Here is what I mean by flow control or conditional branching:
FLOW CONTROL (THE BASICS)
execute step#1
execute step#2
if ( ${user} == "name1" ) then
execute step#3
else ( if ${user} == "name2" ) then
execute step#4
end if
PREFERRED SOLUTIONS
Note: it appears there used to be an <IF> statement but it appears to be
missing from the current distribution (at least as of R_1632). That'd
probably do what I need if it were working.
I'd like to use on of these two forms for flow control (both is possible):
FORM 1
* Use <ENTITY..> to include include xml fragments from other files
* Those xml fragments would use an if/then/else logic to execute
other steps (verifyText, verifyTitle, etc.)
FORM 2
* use <ScriptStep>and execute specific instructions within the
<ScriptStep>,based some conditions (ie. if ( username =="..", etc)
I have not found a way to create a VerifyText step object in JavaScript
inside a <ScriptStep>. Also, I haven't been able to determine how I can
call a verifyText(..) method (for example) inside the script.
Can anyone give me some hints for how to use JavaScript inside a
<ScriptStep> to perform conditional testing to alter the flow of a
testing script?
RANGE OF ACTIONS
While I know JavaScript, I do not know what the all the available
objects and behaviors are. The documentation shows access to objects
step, document and response and at least one website showed the project
and ant objects were available inside a <ScriptStep> too.
However, while the document object is fairly well document as a
JavaScript object, I do not find a list of methods for step, response,
project or ant objects. Are there any global methods imported into the
scripting context too? Where can I find this information?
Mike
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