[Webtest] Testing with lists of input data

[Marc Guillemot]

John,

it's fun to play with Groovy scripting but to define a property with 
current timestamp, Ant tstamp task is surely the simplest way:
http://ant.apache.org/manual/CoreTasks/tstamp.html

Marc.

John and Pip wrote:
> Hi Shawn,
> 
> I'm pretty new to WebTest, but maybe the way I handle creating a unque
> string might be some help:
> 
> <groovy description="get a unique string for username based on 
> datetimestamp">
>     today = new Date()
>       step.setWebtestProperty ('DateTimeString', today.toString()[4..6]
> + today.toString()[8..9] + today.toString()[11..12] +
> today.toString()[14..15] + today.toString()[17..18] +
> today.toString()[25..28])
> </groovy>
> 
> <property name="username" value="#{DateTimeString}" />
> 
> then I proceed to register a new user using this string:
> 
> <setInputField     name="username"             value="${username}"/>
> 
> so I guess I'm suggesting you use groovy to set a dynamic property,
> which you then access using # rather than $. The dynamic property can
> then be updated by further calls - one per "repeat" loop I guess.
> 
> I'm not quite sure how you would do the repeat - I think the easiest
> way would be to do this whole part of your test in groovy code rather
> than try to do this sort of logic in an Ant script. I think you'll be
> able to find some examples of using Groovy rather than Ant to drive a
> test, but I have not tried this myself yet. I will however need to do
> a similar thing myself, e.g. I'd like to be able to test the full
> range of allowed and disallowed inputs to a standard web field i.e.
> min length, max length, allowed and disallowed characters, range if
> numeric; without having to "hard code" all of these variations in an
> ant script.
> 
> regards,
>         John
> 
> On 1/2/07, Shawn Bradley <sbradley@sunergeosystems.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I am fairly new to WebTest, but so far, I've been able to accomplish just
>> about everything I need to.  However, I am stuck at this particular
>> requirement.
>>
>>
>>
>> Our app builds expense reports, and each expense entry references an 
>> expense
>> category.  I am writing tests to exercise the expense category 
>> maintenance
>> portion of the app.  What I want to do is create a property file that
>> contains the parameters for a dozen or so expense categories.  I then 
>> need
>> my WebTest case to create each of these categories in a loop, using 
>> <repeat>
>> or some other construct.  I DON'T want to have to create the same XML
>> instructions a dozen or more times to construct the categories in a 
>> linear
>> fashion.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have spent hours digging through the newsgroup and mailing list 
>> archives,
>> and I cannot find an example similar to what I am trying to do.  This 
>> seems
>> like such a common task to me - surely someone else has had a similar
>> requirement.  How do I accomplish this?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Shawn Bradley
>>
>> President, Sunergeo Systems, Inc.
>>
>> www.sunergeosystems.com
>>
>>
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