Badboy v2.1 User Documentation

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1 INTRODUCTION 10

2 BASIC OPERATION 10

2.1 RECORDING 10

2.2 CREATING SUITES, TESTS AND STEPS . 10

2.3 THE SCRIPT TREE 11

2.4 PLAYING . 12

3 AUTOMATING SCRIPTS . 12

3.1 EDITING PARAMETERS AND HOSTS . 12

3.2 SEARCHING AND REPLACING 13

3.3 PROPERTY MASK 13

3.4 VARIABLES 14

3.5 LINKING VALUES 14

3.6 USING THE DATE/DIME TO CREATE UNIQUE PARAMETER VALUES 15

4 RECORDING MODES . 15

4.1 REQUEST MODE 15

4.2 NAVIGATION MODE . 16

5 NAVIGATIONS 17

5.1 RECORDING NAVIGATIONS . 17

5.2 TYPES OF NAVIGATION ITEMS 17

5.3 NAVIGATION REFERENCES 18

5.4 NAVIGATION PROPERTIES 18

5.5 AUTO-RECORD OF FORM POPULATORS . 20

5.6 PASSIVE NAVIGATIONS 20

6 TESTS AND TEMPLATES . 20

6.1 SUITES AND TEST ITEMS. 20

6.2 ADVANTAGES TO USING TESTS . 21

6.3 ADDING SUITES AND TESTS TO YOUR SCRIPT . 21

6.4 USING TESTS WITH TEMPLATES 21

7 VARIABLES 21

7.1 ADDING VARIABLES 21

7.2 VIEWING VARIABLES . 22

7.3 EDITING VARIABLES 22

7.4 USING VARIABLES 22

7.5 VARIABLE VALUE LISTS 22

7.6 INCREMENTING VARIABLES. 23

7.7 SETTING VARIABLES AS PART OF YOUR SCRIPT . 23

7.8 REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTES 24

7.9 AUTOMATIC VARIABLES . 24

8 INCREMENTING VARIABLES . 24

8.1 INCREMENT STRATEGIES 25

9 USING DATA SOURCES 26

9.1 DATA SOURCE REQUIREMENTS 26

9.2 ADDING A DATA SOURCE . 27

9.3 SETTING THE PROPERTIES 27

9.4 CONTROLLING THE FORMAT OF LOADED DATA 28

9.5 PLAYING DATA SOURCE ITEMS . 29

9.6 USING DATA SOURCE VALUES . 29

9.7 LOOPING OVER VALUES IN A DATA SOURCE . 29

9.8 ADVANCED OPTIONS 30

10 POPULATING AND SUBMITTING FORMS . 30

10.1 CREATING A FORM POPULATOR MANUALLY . 31

10.2 ADDING FIELDS TO A FORM POPULATOR 31

10.3 USING REGULAR EXPRESSIONS . 32

10.4 AUTOMATIC CAPTURE OF FORM POPULATORS 32

10.5 PLAYING FORM POPULATORS 32

10.6 FORM VALUES . 32

10.7 INDEXED FORM VALUES. 32

10.8 SELECT / DROPDOWN BOXES 32

10.9 SENDING JAVASCRIPT EVENTS . 33

10.10 USING FORM POPULATORS TO SUBMIT FORMS 33

11 USING TEMPLATES . 33

11.1 THE NEED FOR TEST TEMPLATES 33

11.2 CREATING TEST TEMPLATES 34

11.3 OVERRIDING STEPS . 35

12 UNDERSTANDING PLAYBACK RESULTS 35

12.1 SUMMARY VIEW 35

12.2 THE SUMMARY HIERARCHY . 36

12.3 ADDING INFORMATION TO SUMMARY VIEW . 36

12.4 GENERATING REPORTS 36

13 TIMEOUTS AND ERROR HANDLERS 36

13.1 CONFIGURING A TIMEOUT . 37

13.2 ERROR HANDLERS 37

13.3 CONTINUATION AFTER AN ERROR OR TIMEOUT . 38

14 MOUSE CLICKS 39

14.1 ADDING A MOUSE CLICK . 39

14.2 WINDOW NAME, X AND Y POSITION 40

14.3 CAPTURING THE CLICK FROM AN EXISTING WINDOW . 40

14.4 RESTORING WINDOW SIZE . 40

14.5 CASCADING CLICK ITEMS . 40

14.6 A COMMON PROBLEM: CAPTURING MODAL DIALOGS . 41

14.7 DISADVANTAGES OF MOUSE CLICKS 41

15 ASSERTIONS . 41

15.1 HOW ASSERTIONS WORK 41

15.2 ADDING ASSERTIONS 42

15.3 CHECKS 42

15.4 EASY ASSERTIONS. 43

15.5 ASSERTION PROPERTIES . 43

15.6 CASCADING ASSERTIONS 44

15.7 VIOLATION ACTIONS AND CONTINUATION 44

15.8 CAPTURING A SCREENSHOT . 44

15.9 WAITING FOR ASSERTIONS TO PASS 44

16 CONTENT CHECKS . 45

16.1 CONTENT CHECK PROPERTIES 45

16.2 REGULAR EXPRESSIONS . 46

16.3 MATCHING AGAINST NORMALIZED BODY CONTENT. 46

16.4 COMMON PROBLEMS . 46

17 SUMMARY CHECKS . 46

17.1 ADDING A SUMMARY CHECK . 47

17.2 SUMMARY CHECK PROPERTIES 47

17.3 CHOOSING WHICH SUMMARY TO CHECK . 48

17.4 SETTING VALUES TO CHECK . 48

17.5 COMBINING VALUE CHECKS 48

18 JSCRIPT CHECKS 48

18.1 ADDING A JSCRIPT CHECK 48

18.2 JSCRIPT CHECK PROPERTIES 49

18.3 SELECTING THE FRAME TO USE 49

18.4 WRITING JAVASCRIPT FOR JSCRIPT CHECKS 49

19 TAKING SCREEN SHOTS. 50

19.1 CAPTURING A SCREEN SHOT MANUALLY 50

19.2 CAPTURING A SCREEN SHOT AS PART OF YOUR SCRIPT 51

19.3 CAPTURING A SCREEN SHOT AUTOMATICALLY WHEN AN ASSERTION FAILS . 51

19.4 USING SCREEN SHOTS FOR MANUAL REVIEWS 51

19.5 CAPTURING SCREEN SHOTS OF RESPONSE TIME GRAPHS 52

20 CREATING REPORTS 52

20.1 HTML REPORTS 52

20.2 SAVING AN HTML REPORT AS PART OF YOUR SCRIPT . 54

20.3 INCLUDING SCREEN SHOTS IN YOUR REPORT . 54

20.4 EXPORTING RAW XML 55

20.5 GENERATING CUSTOM REPORTS 55

21 HANDLING POPUP MESSAGE BOXES . 55

21.1 RECORDING MESSAGE BOXES 56

21.2 MESSAGE BOX PLAYBACK 56

21.3 VIEWING MESSAGE BOXES IN RESPONSES 57

21.4 USING ASSERTIONS WITH MESSAGE BOXES 57

22 HANDLING FILE DOWNLOADS . 58

22.1 ADDING FILE DOWNLOAD HANDLERS 58

22.2 CONFIGURATION 59

23 SLOWING DOWN PLAYBACK WITH TIMERS . 60

23.1 ADDING TIMERS. 60

23.2 WAITING FOR FIXED TIME 61

23.3 WAITING FOR A RANDOM TIME . 61

23.4 USING CHECKS WITH TIMERS . 61

23.5 CASCADING TIMERS 61

24 KEYBOARD INPUT . 62

24.1 ADDING A KEYS ITEM 62

24.2 WINDOW FOCUS . 63

24.3 HANDLING MODAL WINDOWS 63

24.4 SENDING SPECIAL CHARACTERS 63

24.5 KEY COMBINATIONS . 63

24.6 VIRTUAL KEY TABLE 64

25 SPIDERING 65

25.1 HOW SPIDERING WORKS . 65

25.2 SPIDER LOOPING 66

25.3 NAVIGATION OPTIONS 66

25.4 SETTING ASSERTIONS 66

25.5 POPULATING FORMS. 67

25.6 PERFORMING ACTIONS ON SPIDERED PAGES 67

25.7 RANDOM WALKING 67

25.8 CONTROLLING LOOPING YOURSELF . 68

25.9 DETECTING ERRORS 68

25.10 RECURSIVE SPIDERING 68

26 SENDING EMAIL 69

26.1 CREATING SEND EMAIL ITEMS . 69

26.2 SETTING THE EMAIL CONTENT . 70

26.3 CONFIGURING YOUR EMAIL SETTINGS . 71

26.4 SENDING AN EMAIL FROM A FILE 71

27 USING JAVASCRIPT/JSCRIPT 71

27.1 USING JSCRIPT 71

27.2 ADDING JSCRIPT ITEMS TO YOUR SCRIPT 72

27.3 EDITING JSCRIPT PROPERTIES 72

27.4 PLUGIN PRIVILEGES 73

28 ADVANCED JSCRIPT 73

29 USING REFERENCES 75

29.1 CREATING AND DELETING REFERENCES 75

29.2 IMPORTING REFERENCES . 76

29.3 MAPPING REFERENCES TO TESTS 76

29.4 VIEWING REFERENCE INFORMATION . 77

30 USING BADBOY WITH JMETER . 77

30.1 LIMITATIONS . 77

31 USING THE COMMAND LINE RUNNER . 78

31.1 LIMITATIONS OF THE BADBOY WEB TEST ENGINE 78

31.2 RUNNING A COMMAND LINE SCRIPT . 78

31.3 COMMAND LINE OPTIONS . 79

31.4 HTTP AUTHENTICATION AND PROXY AUTHENTICATION 80

32 AGGREGATING SCRIPTS . 80

32.1 CREATING AN AGGREGATE SCRIPT 80

32.2 PASSING VARIABLES TO THE AGGREGATED SCRIPT . 81

33 AUTOMATIC VARIABLES 81

33.1 ADDING AUTOMATIC VARIABLES 81

33.2 CHANGES TO AUTOMATIC VARIABLES 82

33.3 PREDEFINED AUTOMATIC VARIABLES 82

34 CUSTOM TOOLBOX ITEMS . 82

34.1 CREATING A CUSTOM TOOLBOX ITEM . 83

34.2 USING CUSTOM TOOLBOX ITEMS . 83

34.3 UPDATING A CUSTOM TOOLBOX ITEM . 84

34.4 YOUR TOOLBOX FILE . 84

35 FILE FORMATS 84

35.1 BINARY FORMAT 84

35.2 XML FORMAT . 84

35.3 BADBOY XML . 84

36 SCHEDULING BADBOY SCRIPTS 85

36.1 SCHEDULING MANUALLY . 85

36.2 SCHEDULING AS PART OF YOUR SCRIPT 86

36.3 DELETING A SCHEDULE 86

37 USING BADBOY WITH AJAX WEB SITES 86

37.1 UNDERSTANDING AJAX REQUESTS . 87

37.2 RECORDING AJAX PAGES IN REQUEST MODE . 87

37.3 PLAYBACK OF AJAX REQUESTS 87

37.4 RECORDING AJAX PAGES IN NAVIGATION MODE 88

37.5 PLAYBACK OF AJAX PAGES IN NAVIGATION MODE 88

38 INTEGRATING BADBOY WITH YOUR SERVER’S LOG FILE 88

38.1 SETTING UP SERVER LOG FILE INTEGRATION . 89

38.2 USING SERVER LOG FILE INTEGRATION 89

38.3 TROUBLE SHOOTING . 90

39 BADBOY’S DEVELOPER FEATURES 90

39.1 EDITING SOURCE FILES DIRECTLY FROM BADBOY . 90

39.2 EDITING SOURCE FILES FOR REQUESTS 91

39.3 MONITORING SOURCE FILES 91

39.4 MONITORING STEPS . 92

39.5 CAPTURING YOUR LOG FILE 92

39.6 DOM VIEW 93

39.7 SYNTAX HIGHLIGHTING JAVASCRIPT EDITOR WITH AUTO-COMPLETE . 93

39.8 JAVASCRIPT LOGGING . 94

40 SHORTCUT KEYS . 95

41 LOAD AND STRESS TESTING WITH BADBOY . 96

41.1 THREADS 96

41.2 THREAD ITEMS. 97

42 CREATING AND RUNNING THREAD ITEMS . 97

42.1 CREATING THREAD ITEMS 97

42.2 RUNNING THREAD ITEMS . 97

42.3 STOPPING THREAD ITEMS 98

43 BROWSER ENGINES 98

43.1 BROWSER ENGINES 98

44 CONFIGURING THREAD ITEMS . 99

44.1 SETTING THE NUMBER OF THREADS 100

44.2 HOW LONG THREADS RUN 100

44.3 GRADUAL STARTING/STOPPING . 101

44.4 THREAD LIMITATIONS . 101

44.5 USING DIFFERENT DATA ACROSS THREADS 101

44.6 HTTP AUTHENTICATION AND PROXY AUTHENTICATION 102

45 VIEWING AND UNDERSTANDING THREAD RESULTS 102

45.1 ACCESSING THREAD DATA 102

45.2 VIEWING RESPONSE TIME GRAPHS . 102

45.3 SAVING RESPONSE TIME GRAPHS . 103

45.4 SAVING RAW RESPONSE TIME DATA . 103

45.5 SAVING TIME AVERAGE DATA 103

46 GLOBAL THREADS (LEGACY FUNCTION) . 104

46.1 GLOBAL THREADS - THREAD CONTROL DIALOG . 104

46.2 THREAD STATISTICS 105

47 AUTOMATING BADBOY WITH OLE . 106

47.1 OLE INTERFACE API . 106

48 SCRIPT ITEM PROPERTY REFERENCE 111

48.1 ACCESSING PROPERTIES . 111

48.2 AVAILABLE PROPERTIES . 111

49 BADBOY PLUGINS . 122

49.1 INSTALLING A PLUGIN 123

49.2 STRUCTURE OF PLUGINS 123

49.3 PLUGIN TOOLS . 123

49.4 THE BADBOY PLUGIN OBJECT 124

49.5 APPENDIX: LIST OF BADBOY PREFERENCES ACCESSIBLE VIA SETPREFERENCE AND GETPREFERENCE FUNCTIONS 127

50 USING BADBOY’S GUI FROM THE COMMAND LINE . 127

Total 3

jalsa

2014-07-12 13:07

for technical writers
vikasrao

2014-07-19 03:39

thank u
crmanikandan

2014-09-05 00:26

Thanks for sharing 🙂 very happy to see docs for opensource loadtesting docs like badboy jmeter 🙂

Keep sharing !!

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