I have been playing around with webtest and multi-threading to try and get my tests to run in less time than they currently are. My first attempt was just to try and multi-thread one test. This is not possible unless you break the test up into smaller test files? (I tried having several webtest nodes in the project file and got errors) Ok, fine that's cool I can deal with that, then I ran into the problem of multi-threading doesn't work on a dataDriven step using excel? Now its getting less useful. So now I'm thinkin that I can put the first test in the allTests.xml file and then link the tests together to get some tests seqential and allow others to multi-thread. But now I have the problem that all webtest nodes go into a giant queue and the threads just grab off of that? Getting more and more disappointed, maybe I can fix this problem by starting with one thread and then moving to several threads later in the test. Nope?
So in summary my questions are: Can you multi-thread within a test? (<parallel> for example?) Does multi-threading work on a dataDriven step using excel? Is there any way to define the order tests are run? (for example, have tests a, b, c run concurrently to x, y, z; and when test a finishes test b is run etc?) Is there a way to increase/decrease the thread count during the test? (for the above example, after c runs open up the thread count to 30 to allow multiple tests to run after c?) Have I possibly missed something and all this is in there or this is not the appropriate way to test with webtest? Thanks a lot, William
