David, I think we're talking about different things here, perhaps I should detail the suggestion a bit more clearly...
The idea was to have a page that allowed you to run a service synchronously much like the "schedule service", however, it would then display the results tabularly in the browser. For each value pair displayed, there would be a checkbox to allow you to save the value in the session, then when you returned to run another service if the one of the input params matched one of the previous saved values, it would automatically populate the input box. This would allow people relying predominantly on a browser based test tool to run pretty fancy multi-service sequences. I admit, it does sound a bit hacky, but I have a rough draft which I'm using for some testing and it does make certain things a lot easier. Can you give me your thoughts please? - Andrew On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:35 -0700, David E. Jones wrote: > I'd really prefer to do what has been proposed as a best practice and > write tests using the same OFBiz framework tools that we use to write > applications, like simple-methods, services, etc... > > But yes, it is possible to call a service through a web request and > there is one in the webtools wecapp that has been there for years. > The trick is you have to set export="true" for all services called > this way, which is another reason to do logic-level test (including > service calls) in a more black-box way, especially if they are not > for testing things that are intended to be available externally. > > -David > > > On Jan 29, 2007, at 4:01 AM, Andrew Sykes wrote: > > > Assuming an automated web browser type technology is the way to go for > > testing... > > > > What does everyone think of having an option to run a service > > synchronously from webtools? > > > > This would allow a lot of clever asserts from the test tool? > > Without the > > need to make the tool dispatcher aware? Would this be an adequate > > approach? > > -- > > Kind Regards > > Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sykes Development Ltd > > http://www.sykesdevelopment.com > > > -- Kind Regards Andrew Sykes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sykes Development Ltd http://www.sykesdevelopment.com
