Right. So the script that invokes the site has:
<invoke description="Go to main page"
url="control.jsp?fid=${fid}"/>
and that completes the url that starts with hostname and port.
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Patrick Burghardt <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> Thanks, Lisa.****
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> Does hostname just provide a base url onto which we can add relative url’s
> to invoke? I am looking for a way to call a url from the server instead of
> from my local machine.****
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> *From:* Lisa Crispin [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 25, 2011 2:46 PM
> *To:* [email protected]; Patrick Burghardt
> *Subject:* Re: [Webtest] Where does WebTest run?****
>
> ** **
>
> We use variables for hostname and port in the config.xml file, and pass
> those in as -D parameters when we run the test, eg., here is a script I use
> to run locally:
> ant -DwebTestSrc=/Users/lcrispin/code/fast401k/src/web_test
> -Dwebtesthome=/Users/lcrispin/canoo -Dhostname=****chester**** -Dport=80
> -DresultsPath=/Users/lcrispin/canoo/logs/chester_results
> -DcanooTestToRun=$1.xml run-one-cano
>
> Here's my config.xml:
> <config
> host="${hostname}"
> browser="IE7"
> protocol="http"
> port="${port}"
> basepath="/"
> resultpath="${resultsPath}"
> resultfile="result.xml"
> summary="true"
> showhtmlparseroutput="false"
> saveresponse="true"
> haltonerror="false"
> haltonfailure="false"
> easyajax="true" >
> <option name="ThrowExceptionOnScriptError" value="true"/>
> </config>
>
> Here's the ant target for that in the build.xml:
> <!-- the canoo tests are run using wt.full found in webtest.xml
> residing in the canoo home directory
> webtest.xml is included at the top of build.xml -->
> <target name="run-one-canoo" depends="init" description="Runs specified
> canoo test (requires running application).">
> <property name="wt.testInWork"
> value="${test.webtest.scripts.dir}/${canooTestToRun}"/>
> <echo message="wt.full in ${webtesthome}"/>
> <antcall target="wt.full" />
> </target>
>
> Does that help? In our Jenkins build, we pass parameters via the Jenkins
> config.
> -- Lisa****
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Patrick Burghardt <
> [email protected]> wrote:****
>
> I have WebTest running on my local computer. I want it to run on a server
> to which I have mapped a drive, but I still want to control it from my local
> drive. I test this by going to a website that tells me what my IP address
> is. I can specify webtest.home to be on the server, but I still show my
> local IP. ****
>
> ****
>
> Maybe my question is most simply stated: What determines which environment
> I am simulating?****
>
>
>
>
> --
> Lisa Crispin
> Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers
> and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
> Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009)
> http://lisacrispin.com
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> http://entaggle.com/lisacrispin****
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Co-author with Janet Gregory, _Agile Testing: A Practical Guide for Testers
and Agile Teams_ (Addison-Wesley 2009)
Contributor to _Beautiful Testing_ (O'Reilly 2009)
http://lisacrispin.com
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