[Http-webtest-general] WebTest and JavaScript

[Jagannadh P. <jag...@ya...>]

 
Hi Ilya. I have been posting a couple of messages about WebTest and JavaScript. Joe has been kind enough to answer my question, but I did want to verify with you as well. My question is below in Message1. I want to be able to simulate the alert boxes without opening up a browser. Is there a way to do that? 

Thanks.

Jag

Today's Topics:

1. WebTest and JavaScript (Jagannadh Pariti)
2. Re: WebTest and JavaScript (Johannes la Poutre)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 11:05:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jagannadh Pariti 
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Subject: [Http-webtest-general] WebTest and JavaScript

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I figure in my previous postings that I should have been more clear with my question.The web page I want to test includes JavaScript for some fields. If those particular fields do not have a value in them, an alert box comes up, after pressing a Submit button. I want to be able to generate those alert boxes. Is there anyway to do that? 


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I figure in my previous postings that I should have been more clear with my question.The web page I want to test includes JavaScript for some fields. If those particular fields do not have a value in them, an alert box comes up, after pressing a Submit button.  I want to be able to generate those alert boxes.  Is there anyway to do that? 



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 17:53:44 +0100
From: Johannes la Poutre 
To: Jagannadh Pariti 
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Subject: Re: [Http-webtest-general] WebTest and JavaScript

Jagannadh,

> I figure in my previous postings that I should have been more clear 
with my
> question.The web page I want to test includes JavaScript for some 
fields. If those
> particular fields do not have a value in them, an alert box comes up, 
after pressing a
> Submit button. I want to be able to generate those alert boxes. Is 
there anyway to do
> that?

If I understand you correctly, you want to use HTTP::WebTest to mimic a 
graphical user agent (that is, a web browser) with all of its behaviour. 
That means that you acttually have to parse the results as a browser 
would do, including JavaScript.

This is not what WebTest does. The webtest modules can only act on a 
retrieved document from the web (which can be anything) and perform lots 
of sanity tests on that content. This means that you can perfectly 
monitor expected behaviour of a known website.

Example:

WebTest requests a URL, like http://my.site/start.html
WebTest inspects the result (e.g. looks for a terminating tag)
WebTest generates a report
(there are a lot of more elaborate examples in the documentation - 
recommended!).

However, this has nothing to do with the fact whether this content 
renders properly on a standard web browser. In other words, WebTest is 
not a QA tool for acceptance tests , just a generic and versatile 
monitoring tool to see if an existing situation doesn't change in an 
unexpected way.

If you want to test your (cgi-) form application for certain responses, 
nearly everything is possible with WebTest (just send a malformed 
request and check for the expected error message). If that means that 
this response contains specific JavaScript code (like a custom error 
message) you can just check for this.
On the other hand, if you want to display popups, generated from a web 
browser by means of JavaScript, you should use your web browser. At 
least, that's what I think...

Cheers,

Joe.








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