Hi Alex,

We had a similar issue few days ago. It was about how to do a set of steps on
every page / response you get.

The only difficult Marc has, is to find a good name ;-)

" - recurrent check that should occur on each new page. Currently the only way
to do that is to included (for instance with an entity) the verification checks
each time when a new response is received. This works perfectly and is flexible
but it's a bit cumbersome and it's too easy to forget the verification on some
pages. Ideally WebTest should provide a way to specify (verification) steps that
have to be performed each time a new response has been received. I've had this
idea on the beginning of the year but WebTest internal didn't provide the
possibility to (easily) implement this. Since the refactoring post 2.1 this
should now be possible and the most difficult will be... to find a good name for
this. Suggestions are welcome. (Marc)"

Jochen.

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Auftrag von Curelea, Alexandru Gesendet: Montag, 20. November 2006 23:03 An: webt...@gate2.canoo.com Betreff: [Webtest] Always failing when some text is found on page

Hi all,   I suspect the following isn't possible in Webtest, but I thought I'd ask anyway:   Is there a way to specify (preferably in a central location like a config file)
some text, such as "Internal server error", which will always cause a page load
containing that text to fail?   My reasoning is the following:   Since Webtest simulates a user's actions, there are certain errors (such as the
above-mentioned "internal server error") that the user should never be able to
cause.  If such an error is caused by any of the tests, it should be fixed (eg.
it is never "expected behaviour" for the test).  When the error is given, it
might not always be caught by the checks on that page, but it will invariably
cause the test to fail later on - it would save a lot of time when reading the
test results if it failed right away.   I could, of course, put a VerifyText inside a Not after every page load.... but
that isn't really an attractive option, since our test suite numbers in the
thousands of steps by now.  This is why I'm hoping for a way to tell Webtest to
always fail when it encounters that text, no matter where.   As I said, I can't really see any way to do this, so I will most likely end up
just adding that check in all of our key modules.  But any ideas are very
welcome!   Thanks,   Alex