Re: [Htmlunit-user] Specifying which UserProfile on Netscape and Mozilla

[David D. K. <ddk...@ki...>]

First, I'll assume that you're switching back to a "real" browser  
(Netscape/Mozilla) rather than using HtmlUnit because of the memory  
errors.  The user profiles in Netscape/Mozilla have absolutely  
nothing to do with HtmlUnit.

If you want to hit the same web site and log in multiple times on the  
same PC, you'll need to use different browsers, such as:  Mozilla  
Suite, Firefox, Opera, MSIE 6, and Netscape (which just released  
version 8).  Each of these, running as a different executable, should  
allow you to log in as five different users into your web  
application.  (I suppose you could also set up multiple proxy servers  
with different hostnames so that you could log into one application  
multiple times with a single browser, too.)

How much memory does your PC have?  At work, we give all of the  
developers 1 GB so that they can run Tomcat (or JBoss), the IntelliJ  
IDEA, a Fitnesse server, multiple web browsers and the application  
they're working on all at the same time (as well as Windows apps like  
Outlook).

Did you try to determine why you're running out of memory in your  
tests?  Have you tried modifying the max size of the JVM heap when  
running the tests (-Xmx=256m)?  We found we had to do that when  
running our hundreds or HtmlUnit-based tests within IntelliJ IDEA 4.5  
or it would run out of memory.

Finally, what version of HtmlUnit are you using?  Before 1.3 (or  
1.4?), there was a bug where memory would be consumed and not  
released until the test process exited.  (This was the primary reason  
we had to increase the heap size to 256MB, if I remember correctly.)

Dave


On May 23, 2005, at 4:55 PM, Dantes, Ed wrote:
> Hi,
>    I was just wondering if there was a field where you can specify  
> which the particular UserProfile box that comes up, when you use  
> Netscape and Mozilla.  There probably isnt a way to do this, but  
> perhaps I should rephrase this another way.
>
> I am trying to load test my javascript application using HtmlUnit,  
> JUnit and JUnitPerf.  The web application requires you to login  
> correctly prior to gaining access.  Thus I have several users in  
> tow: testuser1, testuser2, etc... all of which I am trying to  
> emulate simultaneously.  Basically each user has its own TestClass  
> in which I add all the tests to the TestSuite.  One or two users,  
> work fine, but testing more users gives major problems, out of  
> memory error to be exact.  This all leads back to the UserProfile,  
> because netscape will not allow you to log on as a different user  
> after two...any responses on how I can do this?
>
> Thanks
> Ed
>