[Webtest] Logging in and then running tests

[Aatish Arora]

Hi Mat,

Heres what you can do -
You can keep the common steps in a file - say
login.xml
and can include this file like the example given on:

http://webtest.canoo.com/webtest/manual/samples.html

Its called "Including Files"

check it out,
best of luck,
Aatish 

--- Matt Raible <matt@raibledesigns.com> wrote:
> I'm using webtest for the following two tests: login
> and viewCM.  I'd like to 
> somehow make viewCM depend on login without copying
> the actual steps from 
> login into my testcase.  Is this possible? 
> Basically, all my tests will have 
> to login first to do something - what's the easiest
> way without duplicating 
> lines of XML?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt
> 
>     <target name="login" 
>         description="Runs login test and verifies
> Main Menu's Title">
>         <canoo name="tomcat-login">
>             <config host="${tomcat.server}"
> port="${tomcat.port}" 
>                 protocol="http"
> basepath="${webapp.name}" verbose="true" 
>                 resultpath="${test.dir}/data"
> resultfile="web-tests-
> result.xml" summary="true" 
>                 saveresponse="true"/>
>             <steps>
>                 <invoke stepid="get Login Page"
> url="/"/>
>                 <verifytitle stepid="we should see
> the login title" 
> text="CCT - Login"/>
>                 <setinputfield stepid="set user
> name" name="j_username" 
> value="tomcat@cable.comcast.com"/>
>                 <setinputfield stepid="set password"
> name="j_password" 
> value="tomcat"/>
>                 <clickbutton label="Login"
> stepid="Click the submit button"/>
>                 <verifytitle text="CCT - Main Menu"
> stepid="Home Page follows 
> if login ok"/>
>             </steps>
>         </canoo>
>         <loadfile property="web-tests.result"
>            
> srcFile="${test.dir}/data/web-tests-result.xml"/>
>         <echo>${web-tests.result}</echo> 
>     </target>
>     
>     <target name="viewCM" 
>         description="Diplays the current channel map
> page">
>         <canoo name="currentChannelMap">
>             <config host="${tomcat.server}"
> port="${tomcat.port}" 
>                 protocol="http"
> basepath="${webapp.name}" verbose="true" 
>                 resultpath="${test.dir}/data"
> resultfile="web-tests-
> result.xml" summary="true" 
>                 saveresponse="true"/>
>             <steps>
> <!--============================================
> DUPLICATE DATA BEGINS HERE - 
> SAME AS STEPS ABOVE ===============-->
>                 <invoke stepid="get Login Page"
> url="/"/>
>                 <verifytitle stepid="we should see
> the login title" 
> text="CCT - Login"/>
>                 <setinputfield stepid="set user
> name" name="j_username" 
> value="tomcat@cable.comcast.com"/>
>                 <setinputfield stepid="set password"
> name="j_password" 
> value="tomcat"/>
>                 <clickbutton label="Login"
> stepid="Click the submit button"/>
>                 <verifytitle text="CCT - Main Menu"
> stepid="Home Page follows 
> if login ok"/>
> <!--============================== END OF DUPLICATE
> STEPS 
> =======================-->
>                 <invoke stepid="click on menu to
> view current CM" 
>
url="/do/editChannelMap?action=view&amp;headendId=71715"/>
>                 <verifytitle stepid="we should see
> the view channel map 
> title" text="CCT - Current Channel Map"/>
>             </steps>
>         </canoo>
>         <loadfile property="web-tests.result"
>            
> srcFile="${test.dir}/data/web-tests-result.xml"/>
>         <echo>${web-tests.result}</echo> 
>     </target>
> 
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