[OpenSTA-devel] Re: Codemax

[Daniel S. <da...@Op...>]

Federico Toledo wrote:
> When I use OpenSTA and run a TaskGroup with validations in the
> scripts (using tests case sentence) if a validation fails I didn't
> know why fails.

Presumably you have done some sort of conditional before your:
  FAIL TEST-CASE
Why not just LOG the error (or BODY contents) before doing the fail.
Maybe I'm missing something but hopefully you can explain further.

> 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 the error.

How are the "test cases" defined?
Do the pages get written out each to their own file, or in a log?

> Resuming: I want to save the pages returned with error by the
> server to know why fails.

If you just want to do it by HTTP Code then this would be relatively
easily done in SCL - except if you want them writing out to seperate
files, or if they are longer than 64K...

> Then I want to investigate how to work with SOA and WebService, but
> this will be in the future.

I think you'll find lots of people interested in this type of work
and ideas that make testing this type of use of HTTP easier or more
complete will be most welcomed.

> I have implement a couple of tools in Java to do some activities
> that can be done automaticaly.
> For example, a tool to refresh the script's parameters files
> (because after runing a test there are data that is no more valid,
> so we have to repeat the SQL and export the result to the script's
> parameters files to can run again)
> I would like to integrate this funcionality to OpenSTA.

The ability to run "tools" that can return your test system to its
baseline standard either at the end or prior to starting a test, is a
problem that many people have solved in many different ways.  Ideas
of ways to make these tasks generically easier to automate within
OpenSTAs toolset would be welcomed.

> 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?

To the best of my knowledge, no you can not use .Net or any Visual
Studio version newer than 6 to build OpenSTA.  The projects long term
goal is to move away from requiring ANY development environment that
you have to pay for to build OpenSTAs tools.

Hope this helps,
/dan
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