[Webtest] How to set up reporting and subprojects

[Marc Guillemot]

Hi,

how many tests do you have (do you plan to have)? Unless this is a very
large number, I would rather use the facilities of webtest.xml and
generate a single report.

Cheers,
Marc.
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Gary Fay wrote:
> Hello,
>  
> I am trying to work with Webtest from Canoo, specifically I am trying to
> figure out the best way to organize and run tests AND get the reporting
> to match. (I am trying to figure out the best way to organize thing, and
> I hope the following isn't confusing.
>  
> Basically I would like to know, should all reports go to one directory
> outside of the project (sub projects seem to get lost) or should the
> result be in each subproject and be copied or organized in some way
> after the  test complete. 
>  
> (I am fairly light user of ANT and am still learning things about it.
> Setting up directory and filesets seems to be my biggest stumbling block...
> )
>  
> It seems like the best way to do this is to divide the project up into
> subproject so that the directories look like the project
>  
> for example
> -project
>     -users
>     -products
>     -orders
>  
> Would have test code set up like
> -projectTest
>    -users
>        -sub - build.xml
>    -products  
>        -sub - build.xml
>   -orders 
>       -sub - build.xml
>   build.xml (project level file
>  
> with build.xml set up in each subproject.
>  
> I have the master build.xml file calling clean and test tasks in each
> subproject and was wondering about the reporting ...
> A hardcoded entry such as :
> c:\reports\project\report.xml seems to dump everything into the directory,
>  
> it does seem to have a lengthy result.xml and lots of html files but the
> directory structure is not preserved ...
>  
> I suppose the copy tasks could be used ....
>  
> I wonder if leaving the results in each directory is better?
>  
> ( I am not a big user of ant but I love Canoo's reports, I guess I am
> curious how best to set up the structures.)
>  
> PS I noticed several years ago performance and maintenance seem easier
> when things are broken up and there is more than one big test script ...)
> 
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