Hi Marc,
I start Ant through a perl script of my own, which I think also wasn't
accounting
the ANT_OPTS. I've fixed that now, but the problem persists. Not quite
sure
what to make of it.
I notice that, if I break the script up into little pieces, the pieces run
quickly.
I need to break this thing down for presentation anyway, so I think I'm
going to
run each of the pieces in a forked process with separate Ant invocations.
I can easily concatenate the resulting WebTestOverview.xml files. But what
I don't know how to do is get the report writer is to invoke the report
writer
later, independently, to produce one index.html from the concatenated xml.
Do you know how this might be accomplished?
Thx,
Ken
ps... all answers from everyone so far have been tremendously helpful!
Many thanks to all!! :)
On 5/21/08, Marc Guillemot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Ken,
>
>
> > Funny you should mention performance, because I'm starting to have an
> > issue with it.
> > My WebTest suite is growing, and I'm finding that, as it approaches the
> > end, it slows
> > to a crawl and practically doesn't finish at all.
>
>
> this isn't normal.
>
>
> > I've noticed the Out of Memory recommendations in the TroubleShooting
> > WebTests
> > section of the WebTest site. I do have my ANT_OPTS set as
> > recommended. This
> > has not resolved the issue.
>
>
> do you start your tests with Ant directly or with the webtest.{sh|bat}
> script? In this later case I guess that ANT_OPTS are not taken into
> account.
>
>
> > Typically, my tests look like this ...
> >
> > <?xml version="1.0"?>
> > <!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "../dtd/Project.dtd">
> > <project name="demo.beboWebTest" default="test">
> > <property name="BirthDay" value="17"/>
> > <property name="BirthMonth" value="10"/>
> > <property name="BirthYear" value="1980"/>
> > <property name="FirstName1" value="Alan"/>
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > <target name="test">
> > <webtest name="Register First User">
> > <config
> > protocol="http"
>
> > host="testbranch.bebo.com <http://testbranch.bebo.com>">
>
> > <header name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;
>
> > U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14 <http://1.8.1.14>) Gecko/20080404
> > Firefox/2.0.0.14 <http://2.0.0.14>"/>
>
> > <header name="Accept-Language"
> > value="en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3"/>
> > <header name="ThrowExceptionOnScriptError"
> value="false"/>
> > <header name="X-BeboAutomatedTestAgent" value="WebTest"/>
> > </config>
> > <steps>
> > <invoke
> > url="InviteJoin.jsp?Member=N&AutomatedTest=Y" description="Register
> > First User"/>
> > <setInputField name="FirstName" value="${FirstName1}"/>
> > <setInputField name="LastName" value="${LastName1}"/>
> > <setRadioButton name="GenderCd" value="${GenderCd1}"/>
> > <setSelectField name="BirthDay" value="${BirthDay}"/>
> > <setSelectField name="BirthMonth" value="${BirthMonth}"/>
> > <setSelectField name="BirthYear" value="${BirthYear}"/>
> > <setInputField name="Email" value="${User1}"/>
> > <setInputField name="Password" value="${Password}"/>
> > <clickButton name="xxx"/>
> > <verifyText text="${Check your email address book
> below}"/>
> > </steps>
> > </webtest>
> > <webtest name="Sign Out First User">
> > <config
> > protocol="http"
>
> > host="testbranch.bebo.com <http://testbranch.bebo.com>">
>
> > <header name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh;
>
> > U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14 <http://1.8.1.14>) Gecko/20080404
> > Firefox/2.0.0.14 <http://2.0.0.14>"/>
>
> > <header name="Accept-Language"
> > value="en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3"/>
> > <header name="ThrowExceptionOnScriptError"
> value="false"/>
> > <header name="X-BeboAutomatedTestAgent" value="WebTest"/>
> > </config>
> > <steps>
> > <invoke url="SignOut.jsp" description="Sign Out First
> > User"/>
> > <verifyText text="${Signed Out}"/>
> > </steps>
> > </webtest>
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > </target>
> > </project>
>
>
> It seems to me that there are some problems (ThrowExceptionOnScriptError
> as header, strange organization in different tests that seem not to make
> sense, ...) but nothing that should bring memory problems
>
>
> > The properties section above is truncated and has gotten quite long in
> > my actual
> > test suite. Then, I keep adding more and more webtests as shown
> above. Am
> > I structuring this whole improperly?
>
>
> I think that it could be greatly improved using property files and one
> file per test to allow to invoke a single test at one time, what is more
> efficient at dev time.
>
>
> > In the WebTest site, I see the
> > recommendation
> > about not calling taskdef more than once .. but I don't know what this
> means
> > (in general I'm no ANT expert).
>
>
> in fact this is now hidden in webtest.xml, which you should only import
> once. The doc needs to be updated.
>
>
> > Also, I do not know how to use more
> > than one file
> > for collecting reports and still have a unified regression test. Any
> > suggestions
> > would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> why do you need different files?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc.
>
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