Re: [Webtest] making webtest continue on step failure - Siegfried Göschl - com.canoo.lists.webtest

2 messages in com.canoo.lists.webtestRe: [Webtest] making webtest continue...

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Michael Knapp	17 Oct 2003 18:07
Siegfried Göschl	21 Oct 2003 09:44

Subject:	Re: [Webtest] making webtest continue on step failure
From:	Siegfried Göschl (sieg...@it20one.at)
Date:	10/21/2003 09:44:16 AM
List:	com.canoo.lists.webtest

Hi Mike,

I'm not an Canoo WebTest expert (actually hardly a user) but maybe my input might help you

On 17 Oct 2003 at 18:08, Michael Knapp wrote:

I don't write java, or else I'd figure this out myself, but does anyone have a way of making webtest *continue* testing remaining steps in a testSpec when one step fails? If I read the documentation correctly, only successive testSpecs will be executed, not remaining steps in the current testSpec. The problem with this is that it necessitates writing a multi-session test where one isn't otherwise wanted.

It seems to me that this should be configurable at each step with a depends attribute (if a step depends on a previous step, therefore making halting of that testSpec desirable) or a boolean haltOnFail attribute that would override a global property set in the config file.

It seems to me that if i DID know java ;) i'd be able to make this change.... has anyone else done this? would anyone else like to?

IMHO the implemented behaviour is correct otherwise you could/would be drown in follow-up errors. For a particular location within a given test case this might the wrong behaviour but in general it is the right thing.

This is the tip of the iceberg for me in encountering lots of frustration getting WebTest to do long testSpecs, which is necessary for single-session testing. Does anyone else share my pain? If so, please let me know what you've done to resolve issues you've encountered.

Some of my other issues: can't use ANT steps within the '<steps>' element, like setting properties, or using echo. Are there good reasons for this that i'm just not grokking?

Dierk Koenig told me that this is something he would like to integrate. Having said that you should setup your environment before running the test scripts and any <echo> should be a test step description anyway ... :-)

You can try to use verbose output from Canoo WebTest (somewhere in the config tag) and/or ANT (-verbose or for the diehards -debug)

Any input appreciated. This is still the best tool i've had the pleasure to use for the testing i need to do, and I'm sure with more experience i'll be able to make it do what i want; so far those techniques just aren't obvious to me.

thanks mike

Cheers,

Siegfried Goeschl