Hi everybody!
Let's suppose that the Title of our page is formed like
this:
Welcome <USER>, You are browsing our <LOCATION> site (for some locations)
<LOCATION> , <USER> - Welcome (For some other locations)
So we want to test the the Title rules are the correct ones according to the
country you are browsing.
The tester decides to create an XML test injecting data through an excel
file. (Data Driven Testing)
XML Test:
<project default="test">
<target name="test">
<dataDriven tableContainer="blah.xls">
<webtest name="Blah">
<config browser="ff3" />
<enableJavaScript enable="false" />
<invoke url="http://${Country_url}"; description="Go to
${Country)" />
<verifyTitle description="Home Page Title is the correct
one"
text="${Title}" />
</webtest>
</dataDriven>
</target>
</project>
But this case "${Title}" is not something static, is something like a "Rule"
that applies for different countries, and the tester doesn't want to replace
in each test the <LOCATION> field with the exact location he want to test.
Becasuse if the rule applies to 20 countries and then the rule changes you
need to change the 20 rows in the excel sheet. What he wants to do is the
folowing
Having an excel sheet like this:
| Country | Username | Title |
| Argentina | Pepe | Welcome ${Username}, You are browsing our ${Country}
site |
| Peru | Juancito | Welcome ${Username}, You are browsing our ${Country}
site |
| Usa | John | ${Country} ,${Username} - Welcome |
| United Kingdom | Dirk | ${Country} , ${Username} - Welcome |
This way if the rule changes we just replace the old rule with the new rule
format (Ctrl+f - Replace)
I know that you can make that string using Excel fucntions but I am not sure
that's the best way. I think it would be better if the webtest handle this.
I tried to run a test using that idea and it failed. It doesn't replace
${Country} with the one in the field that corresponds in the excel sheet.
Do you think this would be a good feature to include to the webtest? Is
there any way around to do this?
Thanks everybody!
