Memory usage with large data driven test

Hi!

hmm.. have you closed the testcase window after the run?

regards,

/Ole
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Yes, the 2 last readings were with the test case closed.

Hi,

ok.. and how many request steps are executed during this process? (since they keep the last response in memory)

If I can run these tests from here, you could send it to me so I could do some memory profiling.. !?

regards,

/Ole
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Hi again!

the latest nightly build adds a "Discard Response" property (bottom left) to all request-teststeps; setting this to true will remove the saved response from memory after the teststep has executed (and asserted itself) unless the corresponding editor is open in which case the response will be kept in memory (so it can be shown in the editor).

Try setting this to true for teststeps whose response you are not using in any subsequent steps (for example in property transfers, script access, etc), this might make quite a difference in your case.

If you can not use this since you need to keep the response in memory for some reason, you could add a script step that removes the response when it is not needed any more;

testRunner.testCase.testSteps["..."].testRequest.setResponse( null, context )

regards,

/Ole
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Thanks, I will give it a try.

OK, I added the Groovy statement to set the response to null for each of the request steps to the TearDown event of each testcase, but the numbers don't seem different at all.

Hi!

ok.. then I don't know what could be filling up memory.. usually soapUI loads the underlying WSDLs the first time a request is made, these will always remain in memory and can take up quite a lot.. I would need to run your project under a profiler to give better answers.

We have done quite a lot of profiling ourselves to see that nothing is lying around in memory, but you could definitely have some setup that we missed.. so if you can share that would be great! Maybe a local mock-service for dummy results (running in another soapUI instance) would be enough to reproduce this !?

regards!

/Ole
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Working on it - I have to fake-out the Mock Services as neither request is SOAP.

oh.. well if it is rest/http then it can just point at some public website? or do you need specific responses for transfers, etc.. to work?

thanks for your efforts!

/Ole
eviware.com

Yes, several assertions in requests so the response must be valid.