[Webtest] Canoo WebTest Standalone without Ant

[Chakra Yadavalli]

Hello, the WebTest website says that running Canoo WebTest as a
standalone process (without Ant) is as simple as running a java
program. How do I do that?

Thanks in advance,
Chakra.


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:52:57 +0000, Lisa Crispin <lisa.crispin@att.net> wrote:
>  
>  
> Great!  Thank you, Marc! 
> -- Lisa
>  
> 
> 
> -------------- Original message from Marc Guillemot <mguillemot@yahoo.fr>:
> -------------- 
> 
> 
> > Hi Lisa, 
> > 
> > if the server does it works, next build should allow to specify a button
> to 
> > click using its id. 
> > 
> > Marc. 
> > 
> > Lisa Crispin wrote: 
> > > Hi Marc, 
> > > In our legacy code, it's a problem because on some pages there aree 
> > > multiple buttons same label and no name attribute, so no way to 
> > > distinguish them. I was using the index. I'm working around that 
> > > now by just using invoke, it's not that huge a deal to me because we're 
> > > phasing out this old code. 
> > > 
> > > In our new code, although we had discussed how things needed unique 
> > > names for WebTest to work, a programmer forgot that and produced a page 
> > > for a review process that had 8 buttons all with the label 'Review' and 
> > > no unique name. Actually we had thought we could use id but saw in the 
> > > WebTest doc that only the text in the value attribute or the value of 
> > > the name attribute can be used. So we're changing the HTML to include 
> > > the name attribute for each button. I think it's better to do this 
> > > anyway, so I don't miss the index locator myself. However, I think 
> > > people who are stuck with legacy code that has buttons with the same 
> > > label and no name would still like to have something like that. If you 
> > > use 'invoke' and the button actually breaks, you won't ever know. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks, 
> > > Lisa 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -------------- Original message from Marc Guillemot 
> > > : -------------- 
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Hi Lisa, 
> > > > 
> > > > I've removed it because it was useless in the selftests. 
> > > Furthermore I think 
> > > > that it is a bad practice to rely on the 
> > > > order of buttons to write a test: when the designer decide that 
> > > it now looks 
> > > > nicer to have first button on the right and 
> > > > second button on the left, your test will fail. And an index 
> > > indication can only 
> > > > rely on the position in the html source 
> > > > code, even if the displayed order looks different. 
> > > > 
> > > > Nevertheless feel free to provide a test where the index locator 
> > > is really 
> > > > needed. 
> > > > 
> > > > Clickbutton is missing an htmlid attribute to allow perfect 
> > > identification of 
> > > > the button to click. 
> > > > 
> > > > Marc. 
> > > > 
> > > > Lisa Crispin wrote: 
> > > > > Thanks, Marc. 
> > > > > Is there some feature which took the place of index? What would 
> > > you do 
> > > > > if you need this functionality? 
> > > > > thanks, 
> > > > > Lisa 
> > > > > 
> > > > > -------------- Original message from Marc Guillemot 
> > > > > : -------------- 
> 
> 
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > > Hi Lisa, 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > yes, index has been removed. The doc is not uptodate, sorry. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Marc. 
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Lisa Crispin wrote: 
> > > > > > > I'm getting the following error running a script which 
> > > works in 
> > > > > the 
> > > > > > > HTTPUnit-based WebTest. I'm using build 560. 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > C:\java\eplan\build.xml:901: Following error occured while 
> > > > > executing 
> > > > > > > this line 
> > > > > > > 
> > > C:\java\eplan\test\WebTest\SmokeTest\EmployeeEnrollTest.xml:23: 
> > > > > The 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > > type doesn't support the nested "index" element. 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > This line number 23 in that file is just the testSpec, but I 
> > > > > think it 
> > > > > > > must actually be complaining about this: 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > label="Search..." > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > The doc shows this is still supported, has it been deprecated? 
> > > > > I can 
> > > > > > > work around it, but I'm just curious. 
> > > > > > > thanks, 
> > > > > > > Lisa 
> > > > > > 
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