[Webtest] best-practices? using xml/xsl and webtest to populate data

[Siegfried Goeschl]

Sorry Bill,

I have to ask a dumb question since I don't understand your mail ... :-(

+) Are you talking about using webtest to populate the database, let's says to 
have a few new business case in the database?!
 
+) Are you talking about using a tool to setup a database prior to testing?!

In the later case you could have a look at http://www.dbunit.org/ - it's Eric 
Pugh's pet tool manipulate databases since it comes with ANT and Maven 
integration. 

If you would like to handle XML based data there is a whole bunch of other 
tools such as JAKARTA Torque or Enhydra Octopus 
(http://octopus.enhydra.org/). If I remember correctly the Enhydra thingie is 
quite powerful .... but as mentioned earlier I haven't worked with DBUnit or 
Enhydra Octopus

Cheers,

Siegfried Goeschl


On Friday 03 October 2003 17:44, Bill Milbratz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is anyone using webtest with xml and xsl to populate a system w/ test data?
>
> Our qa people have expressed interest in automatic scripts to populate our
> system w/ some basic data.. I'd like to use webtest for this as the data
> will be ultimately easier to maintain.
>
> I had made a pass at it earlier and it worked fine, though the xsl might
> seem difficult to maintain...(I recall there was a problem generating ant
> properties ${foo.bar} in the xsl).... I was curious if anyone is
> (successfully) using webtest in this regard?
>
> I welcome any comments (even "dumb idea. write an sql script".)  some
> feedback is better than none.
>
> bill milbratz