Re: [OpenSTA-devel] Re: Re: Codemax

[Olaf K. <ok...@ab...>]

Federico Toledo wrote:
> I know that LoadRunner has a facility to know what the server answered.
> This tool save the pages that didn't pass the test case.
> So we can view the page returned by the server and then we can debug th=
e error.
>=20
> Resuming: i want to save the pages returned with error by the server
> to know why fails.

I'd like to request a slightly different feature (if I understand you
correctly): Saving a page should be explicitly triggered by the script
whenever the script would like to save a response - not on HTTP errors
in general: I believe that load tests can easily and correctly test that
state 404 is returned by the application. On the other hand if the page
is returned with http-state 200 but contains unexpected content (e.g. an
application error message) the script should be able to save this
unexpected content.

> I have to take a time to do all this 'cause i have to get Visual Studio=
.
> I have a question: Could I use dotnet?

Not having developed any program component for OpenSTA my opinion is
probably inferior to others, but I'd prefer not adding the huge
dependence on dot net (or worse a particular dot net version) to
implement "just an additional feature". This'd be different once lots of
features would require dot net (or be easier to add using dot net) or at
least if it's planned to move into that direction rather soon. The
current stable release definitely should not add the dependency on dot ne=
t.

My 2 cents (=80uro-cent, of course :-)
Olaf