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axasmgaxa
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

Loop Test to Run same test against 3 different endpoints

Hi folks,   is it possible to loop a test so that it fires a request against different end points?   I was hoping to fire a test against an endpoint, write out the response to excel;  loop again...
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    sonya_m
    6 years ago

    nmrao, richie, thank you for the input. 

     

    axasmgaxa , it would be great if you could contact support and explain what behavior you would expect with DataSink, they’ll create a bug if needed. We will be waiting for the results. Thank you. 

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axasmgaxa
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thanks nmrao , 

I am setting these tests up for another team; so using the UI was the hope, as they may want to maintain/amend the tests and wouldn't be experienced with code.

 

Kind Regards,

Steven.

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richie
Community Hero
6 years ago
Hey axasmgaxa

I've only ever used datasinks once or twice before so apologies if i've steered you on the wrong track.
Im wondering if the problem isnt that you cant have multiple datasinks in a testcase, im wondering if your datasink entries are overwriting and this is the reason hindering you having more than 1 datasink in a testcase.

I dont know if this would work for the scenario you need, but have you tried writing to 3 different datasink files? So datasink1 (for endpoint1) writes to datasink1.txt, datasink2 (for endpoint2) writes to datasink2.txt and so on and so on?

Im pretty sure this would work....although i dont know if its acceptable for you to have different datasink files for what you need.

Csn you confirm the purpose od these datasinks? The reason i'm asking is that i use a different method to capture all my output. I use a TestRunListener.afterStep eventhandler to record all my input and output. It records everything so it might record a bit too much for you, but i use this method to capture my testevidence and is perfect for this?

Cheers,

Rich
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    axasmgaxa
    Occasional Contributor
    6 years ago

    I have done a good bit of research on this one richie 

    the datasinks work if you use different excel sheets for each one; but that is no use to me unfortunately :smileysad:

     

    they are relatively simple tests.

    1. 1. data source - read in a date
    2. 2 .soap request xml - (uses date above)
    3. 3. response - extract two values from the response
    4. 4. data sink - output the response values to two specific columns in an excel sheet

    I had initially hoped, that I could loop this test, and run it against a few endpoints, so that I would get 2 values output from each test.

    Then, you had suggested setting up the requests individually (your first message).

    However, the issue with the datasinks meant it would only output the last value extracted.

     

    Do you know is there somewhere I can log that as a bug/defect?