Sure.
In WinRunner, there is a global timeout setting that is used for all
scripts. This was set via a menu option rather that programmatically.
In addition to this, in WinRunner TSL, most operations would take a
timeout value as a parameters e.g.
link_click(name, timeout)
button_click(name, timeout)
Don't quote me on any of those functions names. Anyway, let's say I
have the global timeout set to 5 seconds, and have the following
operation:
link_click("my_link", 0)
If WinRunner can't find the link within 5 (5 + 0) seconds, it will
fail with a timeout error. If it can find the link before the 5
seconds is up then it clicks it as soon as it can.
I have seen non-functional requirements before along the lines of "the
response time for each operations should be less than 5 seconds". In
such circumstances the above is useful. If the requirements then
change, the global timeout setting can be changed.
If you needed a longer timeout for a specific operation, the following
might be used:
link_click("my_link", 20)
Then it would wait 25 (5 + 20) seconds before timing out.
To be honest, when doing our performance testing we mostly used tools
like JMeter, working at an HTTP level, however people often like to
see how a web sites respond to simulated mouse clicks rather than the
HTTP requests behind them.
Does that make sense?
Cheers,
Daniel.
On 08/06/06, Bret Pettichord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 6/8/06, Daniel Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > What
> > was different was that there was a global timeout setting that was
> > used, and the timeout value added to the operation would be added on
> > to the global timeout value. This was quite handy when testing
> > requirements such as a "All web pages must be loaded within 5
> > seconds".
>
>
> Can you give an example? I'm not sure i understand.
>
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