Hi,

while there is currently no support for frames in WebTest, Carlo's workaround is the way to go if you don't want to go for Stefan's solution that uses HttpUnit directly.

How could a WebTest step look like, that makes life easier?

<invoke ...> <followframe name="myname" />

current impl would be

<invoke ...> <verifyxpath xpath="//frame[@name='myname']" /> <invoke url="myFrameUrl"/>

if myFrameUrl is not known, one can use storeregex until a better version is available

<storeregex stepid="Extract frame url from frame tag" text="(?si)<frame\s[^>]+?\bname\W+(\w+)\b" group="1" property="myFrameUrl" /> <invoke stepid="follow the named frame" url="#{myFrameUrl}" />

explaining the regex

(?si) single line mode, ignore case <frame\s <frame or <FRAME, followed by a whitespace char [^>]+? not the > char, 1 or more times, shortest match \b a word boundary name name or NAME \W+ 1 or more non-Word characters (="' ) and the like (\w+) myFrameName in group 1, consisting of alpha chars or _ \b final word boundary

The regex could still be improved. It is a little bit too forgiving like this.

Looking at the resulting complexity I think we should provide the followframe element.

comments? Mittie