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kumar
kumar

Reputation: 21

Parameterize the Url strings during webtests

I am testing an application locally and on remote machines using web tests in visual studio 2015.(2 weeks of experience with testing in visual studio) It worked fine for the local machine. But now I am hosting the application on Azure and I need to parameterize the URLs for all the tests. In other words, I need to change the Url value inside the xml from "http://localhost:23405/create" to "http://something.cloudapp.azure.com:23405/create" What's the best way to do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 254

Answers (1)

AdrianHHH
AdrianHHH

Reputation: 14038

One of the command icon with the web test editor is "Parameterize web servers". This changes the URLs in the requests to use context parameters. So a URL like http://localhost:23405/create is changed to something like {{webserver1}}/create plus the context parameter webserver1 is created and set to http://localhost:23405. The name webserver1 can be altered when the command is used. The value of the context parameter can then be altered to change the test to use another URL.

Unfortunately the command does not find all uses of the URL. Some URLs, such as those in StringBody and similar fields are missed. Some URLs are encoded in other fields (eg the characters \ and : are replaced by their hex codes) and they may be missed.

Upvotes: 1

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