Hi Ken, forking Ant for each test will surely help to avoid memory problems but it will have a cost what concerns the speed. Without precise knowledge of your test suite, I can't say where is the cause of you problem ;-(
You don't need to concatenate the resulting WebTestOverview.xml files: as long as you have all subfolders like (001_testFoo) in one folder, the execution of the last test will pick all the necessary information to build the overview (or you can have a look at webtest.xml to call the appropriate target explicitly). Cheers, Marc. -- Blog: http://mguillem.wordpress.com Ken Hopf wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[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> <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> > <http://1.8.1.14>) Gecko/20080404 > > Firefox/2.0.0.14 <http://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="${Check your email address book > below}"/> > > </steps> > > </webtest> > > <webtest name="Sign Out First User"> > > <config > > protocol="http" > > > host="testbranch.bebo.com > <http://testbranch.bebo.com> <http://testbranch.bebo.com>"> > > > <header name="User-Agent" value="Mozilla/5.0 > (Macintosh; > > > U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14 <http://1.8.1.14> > <http://1.8.1.14>) Gecko/20080404 > > Firefox/2.0.0.14 <http://2.0.0.14> <http://2.0.0.14>"/> > > > <header name="Accept-Language" > > value="en;q=0.7,en-us;q=0.3"/> > > <header name="ThrowExceptionOnScriptError" > value="false"/> > > <header name="X-BeboAutomatedTestAgent" > value="WebTest"/> > > </config> > > <steps> > > <invoke url="SignOut.jsp" description="Sign Out First > > User"/> > > <verifyText text="${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. > > _______________________________________________ > WebTest mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest > > _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
