[Webtest] WebTest and CruiseControl

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Hi Nate,
These are great ideas, we'll try them.  Right now our build machine is very short of memory, but we will soon install a fast new one so we can try the parallel idea.

I have been trying to find out how to apply XSL transformation to the XML results.  Do you have any examples of how to do that?
thanks,
Lisa


> Lisa,
> 
> Could you speed up test execution by using <parrallel> in Ant to 
> launch separate test suites at the same time?  This assumes you have 
> the hardware resources to do so, but usally you're running 
> CruiseControl on a reasonably fast machine.
> 
> For results reporting, you might consider adding an Ant task that 
> automatically applies the XSL transformation to the XML results.  You 
> could modify the template to place failures in a summary table for 
> quicker investigation.  Since you've probably got a webserver on your 
> CruiseControl box, dropping the results HTML pages into a browsable 
> directory would further speed things up.  It's not an ideal solution, 
> but it might make your life easier with a minimum of hacking.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nate
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: lisa.crispin@att.net
> Date: Wednesday, April 7, 2004 8:12 pm
> Subject: [Webtest] WebTest and CruiseControl
> 
> > Hello everyone,
> > We're running our WebTests with after every check in using 
> > CruiseControl.  It works well except that sometimes when there's a 
> > failure, it's hard to know what went wrong.  CruiseControl sends 
> > an email with the error output from WebTest, but that doesn't 
> > always help, and we have to look at the actual html result files 
> > to see the real error.  For example, today the build server ran 
> > out of memory, CruiseControl (and WebTest) just reported a server 
> > error 500, and I had to look at the last html result page to see 
> > the out of memory error.  
> > 
> > Also, I'm wondering if we should really run these tests after 
> > every build, or would it be best to do it only on the nightly 
> > build, since they aren't that fast.  The programmers like the 
> > safety net of running them every build, particularly as we don't 
> > have many unit tests yet.  
> > 
> > Does anyone using CruiseControl have any helpful hints for us?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > Lisa
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