[Webtest] Running Suite with HTML reporting

[Troy McGuire]

Thanks for everyone's help!  I was able to get several XML files run 
from one "mybuild.xml" and have the report show data for each file ran!

Thank You,

Troy McGuire

Frank Langanke wrote:
> Troy McGuire wrote:
>> I'm still trying to figure out how to have build.xml run several 
>> other files (and report in HTML).  I can get one file/script to 
>> report in HTML, but am not sure what's required for that to happen 
>> with a suite.
>>
>> I had asked about this before and was directed to the WebTest 
>> samples, but there is so much going on with various files (and 
>> virtually no comments) that it's difficult to make sense of what I 
>> need, and what's "extra" for my situation.  It looks like to make a 
>> build.xml run a suite all I need to do is:
>>
>> <target name="suite.batch">
>>        <ant antfile="test1.xml"/>
>>        <ant antfile="test2.xml"/>
>>        <ant antfile="test3.xml"/>
>>          .
>>          .
>>          . etc
>> Is this assumption correct?  Does each test/file need the elements 
>> required for reporting results, or can that be in the build.xml and 
>> log the results of each test/file that it calls?
>>
>> Thank You (with great sincerity),
>>
>> Troy
>> troy at spawnordie dot com
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>
> It's difficult to answer, because you're questions are not specific 
> enough. You can run a suite like you suggested with one build.xml 
> using the <ant> task. The results will end up depending on how you 
> defined the webtest.resultpath in the config. If they point all to the 
> same file/dir webtest will just put the results in one file; if each 
> resultpath is individually for each test you end up with multiple 
> result files.
>
> They way I do it, example snip from main build.xml:
> --------------------------------------------
> <!-- default value for webtest.host -->
> <property name="webtest.host" value="google.com"  />
>
> <!-- the test main/test.xml will be using webtest.host=google.com -->
> <subant inheritall="true">
>     <filelist dir="tests">
>         <file name="main/test.xml" />
>     </filelist>
> </subant>
>
> <!-- same call this time test is running with a different host.
> <subant inheritall="true">
>     <property name="webtest.host" value="yahoo.com"  />
>     <filelist dir="tests">
>         <file name="main/test.xml" />
>     </filelist>
> </subant>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Maybe this helps too:
> http://webtest-community.canoo.com/wiki/space/How+to+convert+results.xml+to+html 
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank.
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