WebTest export - ReportingName

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I am attempting to create a plugin to allow the WebTest export to enable me to achieve the following:

1. Add the ReportingName to each WebTest request from using a combination of form element values.
2. Replace a value with a WebTest parameter: {{exampleParameter}}

Current issue:
1. I can't seem to retrieve the ReportingName setter from the IFiddlerWebTestPlugin interface?
2. I believe I can do this with current functionality as it's a simple transform from one value to another prior to saving the request.

Any help gratefully received.

I have attached a simple WebTest file with a snippet below (you'll need to convert the .jpeg to a .webtest (or .txt).

WebTest snippet:

  <Items>
    <Request Method="GET" Guid="c2bdeaaa-352c-4835-ad7b-ea7d723cdfa8" Version="1.1" Url="http://www.google.co.uk/" ThinkTime="0" Timeout="300" ParseDependentRequests="True" FollowRedirects="True" RecordResult="True" Cache="False" ResponseTimeGoal="0" Encoding="utf-8" ExpectedHttpStatusCode="0" ExpectedResponseUrl="https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl" ReportingName="Navigate to Google" IgnoreHttpStatusCode="False">

[Eric Lawrence]

Unfortunately, I don't think the WebTest Export extensibility enables the level of customization you seek. The extensibility model enables plugins to skip writing certain steps to the test, and add extraction/validation rules, but it doesn't provide any mechanism to change the XML of the step as it's written to the file.

Fiddler does promote the Session's ui-comments flag to a CommentText element in the XML, but I assume that Visual Studio isn't smart enough to fallback to the comment if the ReportingName isn't set?

I could probably tweak the code such that Fiddler sets the ReportingName attribute if the your plugin sets a WebTest-ReportingName flag on the Session?


With regard to the "replace a value with a WebTest parameter"-- I don't know enough about your scenario to understand what this would entail? It may already be possible to do this with your PreWebTestSave event handler...

Regards,
Eric Lawrence
Telerik

 

 

[Adrian]

Reporting names and comments are quite separate in Visual Studio. Empty or unset reporting names are set from the URL, taking the value after the right-most "/"; query strings are ignored. Reporting names can be set at run time in Visual Studio using a plugin; these values are also trimmed to just the item after the right-most "/".

The two changes you want to make could, I believe, be achieved by modifying the ".webtest" file after Fiddler has written it. The Visual Studio ".webtest" file is just XML. I have used a text editor to set and to modify reporting names in the XML. I have also written both C# and Perl programs to do simple manipulations of the XML when I wanted to do the same action several times and so a text editor would be unsuitable.

[Eric Lawrence]

Fiddler 2.5/4.5 promote a "WebTest-ReportingName" flag from the Session to the target attribute in the XML.

As no further information has been provided about the "WebTest parameter", that aspect is unchanged for now.

Regards,
Eric Lawrence
Telerik

 

 

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Thank you both for your replies. I have some time between projects to have another go. It is simply xml file manipulation that could be achieved using many tools outside of Fiddler. I just wondered if there were any built in hooks.

Thanks again.