[Webtest] Prompt for user input?

[Paul King]

Hi Ralf,

Ant has a built-in <input> tag which you could try:

http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/input.html

It may not work out-of-the-box (or at all)
if you are running WebTest from within an IDE.
You can also try the JeraAntTasks in many cases
which will work by popping up a little Dialog box.
It even has a "password" mode which doesn't
echo what you type if you need it:

http://www.jera.com/tools/anttasks/#query

You will obviously need to not have either of these
included as mandatory tasks within a continuous
integration environment build, e.g. CruiseControl, etc.

Cheers, Paul.


Ralf Müller wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> guess this question if trivial, but I couldn't find the answer in the 
> manual:
> 
> How do I prompt the tester for input. Yes, I know - such a test should 
> be designed to run stand alone. But there is no way for that in my case...
> 
> Webtest has to fetch a Challenge from the server and ask me for the 
> response...
> 
> Is this possible in webtest? Or do I have to use some ant steps?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Ralf