TestPlan Creating an HTTP server in a test

Creating an HTTP server in a test

by Group Public on Monday March 15 2010 @ 08:30:33 (1/1 Points)

There are several cases when testing where the program being automated expects a URL to be provided, or when a live document is required. TestPlan has the ability to create an HTTP server inside your test directly, and further allows you to interact with the requests.

A Basic Case

The easiest case it to simply create a static document and have it available to the program being testing. This is a basic example:

call unit.server.http.AddFile with
  %Content% <<<EOF
<html>
  <body>
    <p id='firstid'>Hello</p>
  </body>
</html>
EOF
end
set %Path% %Return:URL%

This will provide a URL for the simple HTML file. Note the use of heredoc→ for including a snippet. If you have a lot of content you can also load a file→ instead.

call unit.server.http.AddFile with
  %Content% as textFile %This:Dir%/mytest.html
end

This creates a server that exists for the duration of the execution (TestPlan execution, not an individual unit). If you wish to quickly test your URL you'll need to delay exiting. Try this:

Notice %Path%
Sleep 120s

Then copy the URL into a browser and you should see your content. Obviously for normal testing you won't need this sleep→ call.