[Webtest] WebTest-http-request-recorder? Verifying whole HTML-pages?

[Torben Tretau]

Hi,

are you still thinking about this feature? 
I ask because this might be something I am interested in too.
Got some new ideas and links and think about if it might
be interesting to implement it..

Torben

The following message was sent by Damian Glania <damian.glania@web.de> on Thu, 10 Oct 2002 12:45:32 +0200.

> Hi all,
> I would like to use the WebTest to perform the functional tests of our 
> web front end. 
> I'm wondering if I can generate (part of) the WebTest test script instead 
> of writing 
> it manually? Is there any one who tried to do it before?
> 
> I think, I could do it by performing the following steps:
> 1) write an "http-request-recorder" as logging extension to our dispatcher 
> servlet. 
>    The recorder would perform the following tasks:
>    - each incoming http-request would be recorded in "WebTest format" e.g.:
>    <invoke stepid="get 0x100-01" url="Main?navId=0x100-001" />
>    - for each request, a default validation tag, comparing the current 
> http-response to
>      a corresponding one - which was (optically ;-) validated before - 
> would be generated.
>      (a new validation tag, the "diff-tag" has to be introduced)
> 
> 2) the human tester would start the recorder and perform all tests as described 
> in the 
>    test plan using a browser. He validates (optically) each response (HTML-Page) 
> according to the description in the test plan. Each response page will 
> be written to a file (WebTest functionality)
> 
> 3) After completion of the manual test the generated WebTest script would 
> be manually "polished", e.g. some of the default "diff-tags" would be replaced 
> by specialized ones (especially for responses including timestamps or other 
> volatile parts)  
> 
> 4) the following test could be performed automatically until the front 
> end is changed. As the backend is not a part of our project, we would use 
> a stub based on a database of stored backend-request-response-records. 
>  This should help to make the tests more repeatable.
>    
>    
> So my questions are:
> - what do you think about that scenario? Could it work? Is it a sensible 
> way to do that test?
> - is there any software available, I can use to write the "WebTest-http-request-recorder"?
> - is there any software available, I can use to write the "diff-tag" comparing 
> the previously stored HTML-page to the current response?
> 
> 
>  Any help, ideas, comments and software samples would be greatly appreciated! 
>   
>  
>  Damian
> 
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