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Slave machine giving "Foreign SOAtest is busy" message
SOAtest Version: 5.5.3 (Build date: November 18, 2008) Copyright © 2001-2008 Parasoft Corporation GRS enabled, Server enabled 1000 Virtual Users Java Version: 1.5.0_11 I have slave machine defined for the load test with the same SOA test version of load server on Solaris 10 zone. It was working today morning and I was able…
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Environment reference does not work on slave machines during LoadTest
SOAtest Version: 5.5.3 (Build date: November 18, 2008) Copyright © 2001-2008 Parasoft Corporation GRS enabled, Server enabled 1000 Virtual Users Java Version: 1.5.0_11 We are using environment file reference rather than importing environment in our tst project. When we run load tests on remote machines, we get error of…
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Install WTP for SOAtest plugin version [Pre- 9.x]
Eclipse 3.4.1 You can install WTP either through the Eclipse Update Manager or through a zip file. You will need WTP version 3.0.3 To install WTP through the the Eclipse Update Manager: * From within Eclipse, click on "Help > Software Updates...". Open the "Available Software" tab in the form that appears. * Click on "Add…
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How to get .jtest projects to generate elsewhere?
How to get .jtest projects to generateAfter running JTest for a specific project in Eclipse, the .jtest folder is created within my workspace. Is there anyway that I can direct it to generate the files somewhere else? I know that the results can be generated elsewhere, but how can I specify the path that I want the actual…
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SOAtest Load Monitor
JMX MonitorWe are currently running java based web services and unfortunately we have not been able to configure our JMX monitor settings correctly. Can someone please let me know how I can add a JMX monitor to my load tests? Particularly what information would I need in order to correctly configure these settings? Thanks,…
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Iterate inside an xml envelope
Hello All, I have the following xml file <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SOAP-ENV:Envelope> <SOAP-ENV:Body> <Request> <UpdateReq> <Operator></Operator> <Data></Data> </UpdateReq> </Request> </SOAP-ENV:Body> </SOAP-ENV:Envelope> and the possible values for my tags are Operator = [Galleti, Diogo, Doudou, Jenna] Data…
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Unable to generate security tests for Ajax applications
Hi, I've been trying to get WebKing (v6.0.5) to generate Security tests for an Ajax applications, but had no success so far. Here's an issue I encountered: When I tried creating an Ajax Test Suite (for http://maps.google.com/ for example), with both"Generate Functional Tests" and "Generate Security Tests" checked, right…
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Data flow analysis
Does JTest supports DataFlow Analysis ? If yes how we can perform DataFlow analysis?
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Providing weights to rows in a datasource
I have a test which is reading multiple rows from an excel sheet based data source. Is there anyway to enforce certain weightage for rows in the excel sheet during load test. For example, I would like to see row 1 from the excel picked up 50% more than row2 during load test. Is there anyone to enforce this? Thanks
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How to validate the value in the database
Mentioning the scenarios, faced in our application : 1.The first step is to send a SOAP request to a particular server and getting the Response (here the input is an email id ) 2.Search User step to find whether the user exists ( this is another SOAP request sent to the server) 3.Then to validate the same we are connecting…
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How is .TEST different than NUnit?
NUnit provides only a framework for execution of tests that the developer prepared manually. .TEST embraces and extends NUnit to provide automated test case generation. .TEST's execution engine also provides many other important features, such as coverage reporting, automatic error assignment and distribution, tracking of…
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Can .TEST test GUI applications?
One of the important aspects of GUI applications is that they have event handlers. .TEST can generate NUnit test cases that have calls to the event handlers. The parameters for these handlers will be set to values that .TEST designs automatically. You may need to modify the parameters in some cases. .TEST ships with…
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How does .TEST handle threads? Does it detect thread-related problems?
.TEST ships with some coding standards rules that help in making a multi-threaded program more robust. If you are running NUnit tests with a multi-threaded program, then .TEST handles exceptions thrown by threads other than the main test execution thread to the best extent possible and reports such violations as well.…
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Can I test database connectivity with .TEST?
.TEST provides a powerful execution engine. You can use .TEST in the presence of code connecting to databases in different ways. If you prefer, you can connect directly to the database. If you do not want to connect to the database, then you can use the user level stubs feature that .TEST provides to run the tests in…
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Are private methods tested as part of the unit testing?
By default, tests are not generate for private methods. However, this setting can be changed in the Test Configuration.
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AJAX testing report problem on wrong page.
Me again, We have been creating flows of our eForms, which is in a portal and works very similar to Ajax, so by using the Ajax test suite, it enables us to carry out our accessibility testing. The problem we are having is that when the flow goes to the next page the errors found on that page are recorded against the…
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Change global prereferences from command line
Scripted change of Global HTTP Authentication PropertiesHowdy folks, Please can anyone think of a way to change global preferences (specifically the Global HTTP Authentication Properties) via a script (i.e. non-interactively)? The sitution is: We have several related applications, each with its own SOATest suite (i.e.…
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JMS Test via SOA
I am unable to set the call back tools for JMS testing. Is there any one can help me how to test JMS via SOA. Thanks in advance. -Shamim
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SSL peer ShutDown incorretly
SSL peer ShutDown incorretlyHi Iam getting SSL peer shut down incorrectly when i am executing SOA test. Any help is appreciated.
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Parallel execution
Hello, I have a big soa test project with 5 independent test suites. I have 5 machines (servers) that are sitting idle. One option is to set a common endpoint and send the requests to one machine. On the other hand it would be ideal if I could sent 1 test suite to every machine in order to finish the job in the 1/5th of…
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Can we send HTML request using SOAtest
One of our services testing scenario includes a call being made to a website using HTML over HTTP. Is there anyway this can be done in SOATest tool? Here is our current product information. SOAtest Version: 5.5.3 (Build date: November 18, 2008) Copyright © 2001-2008 Parasoft Corporation GRS enabled, Server enabled 1000…
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Connection to DB using script and verifying all the elements
Hi, Scenarios 1: I want to connect it to DB2 and verify all the response elements through python script. Can any one give me ideas how to do it.
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How to create a new ISpell dictionary
to use with Spell ToolHow to create a new ISpell dictionary * Download the zip file attached with this post (ispell.zip) * Unzip the contents to C: This will unzip the source and built executables to C:\ispell * Add C:\ispell\bin\ to your PATH system variable * Get the respective languages .aff and .dic files. This link is…
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METRIC.CBO why accepted range is less than 10 ?
Hi, Is there any documentation explain the rationale for choosing the acceptable range values for all Metrics ? The acceptable range for Metric "Coupling between Objects" METRIC.CBO is "less than 10", this seems to be too less in my opinion. The acceptable range for Metric "Fan Out" METRIC.FO is "less than 50" The two…
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The request has an attached output, but it is no longer being requeste
How do you resolve this error message?The most usual case when you get that message is when you record a functional test scenario with the "Auto Generate Response Stubs" option turned on in the recording wizard. That option causes stubs to be created for all asynchronous requests seen while recording. The stubs get…
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Testing an SOA project - 5 tips ...
The lynchpin of testing web services is the WSDL file. That is the ‘Web Service Definition Language’ file that details the operations available as a web service. Before getting into the usual functional testing it would be wise to set up tests for the following aspects of the WSDL file. 1/ Being written in XML, it has a…
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Serial Number Generator
How to generate a series of positive integers?Howdy folks, I'm writing soatest-cases for a set-of-webservices which implement a "logical conversation". I need to pass a unique conversationId (as a soap-header parameter) with each service request. At the moment I'm just choosing a random number between 1 and 10,000,000 for…
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Retry Soap Client request
Retrying a web-service request based on a value in the response.We have a requirement to wait an abitrary time for a web-service request to be processed. The scenario is: 1. a requestMap web-service places the request on the JMS queue * A map may take upto 10 minutes to produce. These large requests are queued, so that two…
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Using a value from the request to check the response through Asserter
I am trying to verify that certain element in the response has the same text as another element in the corresponding request. Can you please help me understand how this can be done through XML Asserter?
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A way to populate with a datasource with 200 fields
Hi folks, I am new to the tool and I have a project where the web service contains over 200 elements. I have the data in xls format for the request and created a data source linking to that file. However, I am wondering if there is a way to auto parametrize the 200 elements fields automatically without having to go in and…
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JNDI Configuration HELP PLEASE
JNDI Authentication FailureGreetings... I am trying to use SOATest for it's load testing capabilities at a current client. The primary purpose is to validate the resiliance of a CAA configuration of MQ and ESB 7.6 I have setup a simple test, not using SOAP just Plain Old XML. My initial test will be with my installation of…
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How Do I Use a Method Tool to Get Current Value of an Environment
Hi, How do I use a method tool to find out what's the current value for my variable HOST and change it based on a response from a server. For example, I have an Endpoint field http://${HOST}/service. When my SOAP Client hits this URL, the server tells me to go to a different HOST. I'd like to substitue the current HOST…
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Response -> XML Validator errors...what to do?
Good Day, I am working on a test that regularly fails a chained step "Response SOAP Envelope -> XML Validator". Here are the details of the step: simple add method with a large record chained output to Response SOAP Envelope -> Added Or Validated Correctly chained output to Response SOAP Envelope -> XML Validator chained…
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Logging soap response during LoadTest errors
Is there a way to log soap responses on error during load test? We are currently running load tests and some of our responses fail validation. It would be really helpful to be able to look at these specific responses during load test. How can we do this? Thanks Shaharyar Khan
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Scenario or Suite?
How Do I Choose?How does one select to add a test scenario as opposed to adding a test suite? I have groups that appear completely random! Thank you!
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Extreme Load testing
There may be times when the responses received for a load test may be in the region on 15MB, just due to the test you are running. Because of the Java heap size limitation on Windows, this may restrict the number of virtual users that can be used for this load test before an out of memory error occurs. There are several…
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C++Test Rule for indentation
Checking indentation level for public/protected/private & switch cHi all, Does anybody have a C++Test rule to check the indentation level of public/protected/private keywords and switch cases? Our coding standard requires these to be in the following form: CODEclass MyClass { public: int foo(int x); protected: private: int…
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Stepped process doesn't result in HTML 4.01 transitional compliant
How come when I follow the stepped process advocated by ParaSoft, after remediating anything called out, I still don't end up with a page that is compliant with the DOCTYPE specified at the top of my page? From an accessibility testing perspective, I need my pages to validate against the DTD specified, and yet there is no…
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Test Suite Variables
hi, In order to use a test variable that I've defined in my Seenario do I always have to create a method and bind an XML Databank to it in order to use that variable in an assertion? I created a stirng test variable that I'd like to use in my test in a Reqular Expression assertion..... Robert
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File parsing in a stress environment
I am doing a bunch of HTTP tests and trying to get SOA working as a pure HTTP client. I want to run my .tst file in multiuser scenario. Here is the description of what I am trying to test. When a HTTP request receives the response , I want to examine the response for some pre-defined patterns. Let us say that my approach…
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Local pathnames in the .parasoft file.
Sharing projects and test assets through source control requires checking in a .parasoft file (if present) among others, but sometimes it contains local pathnames. For a number of technical reasons, when updating that .parasoft file, C++test will dump all (internally registered) properties (with their default values, which…
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Response time is not appeared in graph at the running LoadTest
Response time is not appeared in grah at the running loadHi, I would like to measure min. max. and avarage response time for my positive test. These three time are setting in the ProjectConfiguration tab at the Monitors/Windows/localhost. When I started my load test running with one or more virtual users, SOAtest does not…
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Assert on an attribute from compressed XML response
Hello, My service is a SOAP Service which takes REST request in attachment and returns REST response in attachment. The returned response is a CompressedXML. Now, I wanted to use assertors to assert on attributes returned in that response. How do I configure that? The assertors (String compare, Value, occurance) doesn't…
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Webking - RAD integration
Last time I heard about Webking-RAD integration was that it will be available by end of this year. Any idea when it will be available? Basically I want to run webking from the RAD.
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Does WebKing support Modal Windows?
About WebKing support for Modal WindowsAbout WebKing support for Modal Windows WebKing can be used to perform tests on paths that include Modal Windows, the only limitation that WebKing has is that the recording of the path through the browser does not pick up what happens in the modal windows. So for functional tests that…
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Parsing comment with RuleWizard
Hi, One of our organizational rules state that the file name shall be included in a Doxygen style comment, like the following: /** * @file filename.ext * * file_description */ I have created the rule to verify everything until the name of the file, however I wasn't able to check if the added filename.ext in Doxygen comment…
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Auto Populating and Parameterizing Elements with Data Source Values
How to auto populate fields with parameterized fieldsUnder SOAtest 5.5.2 it is possible to automatically populate fields with datasource values, based on the datasource column names. This feature now allows you to specify what shold happen when items are NILable, or if there are multiple instances of that field. Please…
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Getting name of current scenario that method tool is running in
I need the ability to get the name of the test suite/scenario that the current method tool is running in. For example Say I have a setup test that starts a timer for a scenario and stores it in the context. I then have a tear down test for that scenario that gets the timer from the context and returns the total…
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XML Compare and Style Sheets
Style sheets being used?Hi, If I create a XSLT to sort my responses, does the XML Compare utilize the Style sheet? Robert
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Validations for response traffic in SOAP attachment
Hello, My application/service uses REST and SOAP where REST request is sent as SOAP attachment and REST response is received as an attachment. I wanted to add validations/method that performs verifications on that REST response which comes as SOAP attachment. Also, I would like to extract some fields from that attachment…