Hi,
I really enjoy WebTest as a test framework for running browser
simulated tests for web applications, but I have experienced some
issues which I will address in this post.
I'm trying to define a different browser than the default one, but
this feature doesn't seem to work as expected.
My config file is like this:
<config
host="the name of the server I'm running the against"
port="80"
protocol="http"
basepath=""
summary="true"
saveresponse="true"
resultfile="${wt.resultfile}"
resultpath="${wt.resultpath}"
haltonfailure="false"
haltonerror="false"
autorefresh="true"
<header name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0;
Windows NT 5.1; Hotbar 3.0)" />
<!-- List of User-Agents:
http://www.user-agents.org/index.shtml?moz -->
<header name="accept-encoding" value="gzip,deflate" />
</config>
The webtest log yields the following:
[...]
[webtest] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.ant.WebtestTask) - Canoo Webtest: R_1551.
[config] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.engine.Configuration) - Using
browser version (Microsoft Internet Explorer, 4.0 (compatible; MSIE
6.0b; Windows 98), Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
Hotbar 3.0), 1.2, 6.0). If the javascript support is not as expected,
then it's time to go into the sources
[config] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.engine.Configuration) -
Configuring 2 HTTP header field(s)
[config] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.engine.Configuration) - Skipped
User-Agent header as it has already been configured in the
BrowserVersion
[config] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.engine.Configuration) -
Configured header "accept-encoding": gzip,deflate
[...]
The access log on the web server says that the User-Agent field in the
HTTP header is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
Hotbar 3.0)" for all requests the tests executed generate, which is
correct according to what I declared in my <config> section.
The issues I'm pointing at here is the strange logging information
WebTest yields in the console. The logging information WebTest yields
is very confusing and doesn't really tell what's going on. I really
miss some good documentation concerning how to simulate different
kinds of browser during tests, how to do this in a proper way etc.
If anyone has some experience with this, please to not hesitate to
reply on this post. I also believe the project team developing and
documenting WebTest should develop some additional documentation on
this topic and refactor the WebTest code in order to define less
confusing log entries. I know that WebTest uses HtmlUnit in order to
simulate browsers, but I still believe these issues are within the
scope of their work.
Kind regards,
Rune
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