Hi there,
I found it very helpful to use the "dir" attribute along with the "antfile".
I'll explain below.
E.g., we have one parent folder that has a build.xml and a webtest xml file
that holds references to all tests to be executed.
These tests (separate files) are located in subdirectories of a sibling folder
of the "parent" folder, like:
- parent_dir (we run "webtest.sh" from here)
-- build.xml
-- alltests.xml
- testcases_dir
-- testtopic_1
--- test1.xml
--- test2.xml
-- testtopic_2
--- test3.xml
--- test4.xml
What we wanted to have is a SINGLE big report in ONE directory to hold all
results.
The easiest way for us to do this was to use (in the "alltests.xml") the
following notation:
<ant antfile="test4.xml" dir="../testcases_dir/testtopic_2" />
Okay, you might say, "this is the same like"...:
<ant antfile="../testcases_dir/testtopic_2/test4.xml" />
...is it? NOPE! I consider this an IMPORTANT fact which is yet little mentioned.
( Not everyone who is testing software knows the nuts and bolts of ANT by
heart! ANT is a developer tool. Keep this in mind. )
The way we organized our test directories enables us to re-use the same
test4.xml file from inside its containing folder and run it there, creating a
dedicated "results" folder for the test only in the same directory. If we want
/ need that.
Hope this helps (especially the "noobs" like me... Or like I was some weeks ago)
Thomas Klein
Senior Associate, QA | Sapient
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of wing-tung Leung
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 5:41 PM
To: [email protected]; Iain_10
Subject: Re: [Webtest] Organising Tests for WebTest
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Iain_10 <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am looking at the best way to organise my Web Tests.
I guess there is no "BEST" way to organize your tests. It depends on
your amount of tests scripts, and your test scenario's.
We have rather a limited set of test files (roughly 20), and we store
them all inside a single "tests" directory. Names of the file either
refer to the tested functionality, or to the issue ID from the bug
tracking system.
> But it doesn't seem to execute the tests in myTest2.xml.
I guess you miss a reference to "myTest2.xml".
In our case, the global "build.xml" contains the property
"wt.testInWork" referring to "tests/allests.xml". The latter file
contains a list of all test files, each one listed with separate <ant>
tag. Not really advanced, I suggest that you get it working first, and
grow into a more formal structure when you feel the need.
Example content "allTests.xml":
<project default="test">
<target name="test" description="runs all the tests">
<ant antfile="test1.xml"/>
<ant antfile="test2.xml"/>
<ant antfile="test3.xml"/>
</target>
</project>
BTW, please quote mails inline, and enter your remarks inline is as
well. Makes following threads much easier.
Regards,
Tung
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