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Examining Logs for Test Run
Examining Logs for Test Run
You can set WAPT Pro to create full or error logs.
Log files will help you know what occurred during test run.
Switch to Log and Report Settings view and select the type of log file in the
Level of detail combo-box.
Full log is a comprehensive log of WAPT Pro test run that includes information on all
requests, responses, redirects and returned HTML code.
Note that creation of full logs may require much space on the disk.
Full logs are often used for functional testing or
verification of test scenario with dynamic parameter values.
Error log contains page requests that were processed with errors during the test. So, if the response code for
some request is not equal to 200 OK, that request is included in the error log (except for the case of redirects).
Besides, if you make additional validity check of server response and receive a validation error, such request is
also included in the error log.
If you set WAPT Pro to create full (error) logs, then the corresponding log will be
created for each virtual user participated in the test. Or you can create full logs for the first user of each
profile, and error logs for other users.
Users' logs are saved on the computer running Load Agent that generated the load during test.
If you use several agents in your test, then each of them creates logs for virtual users that it
generated. Users' logs are saved to the TestData folder of WAPT Pro
installation folder (for example, C:\Program Files\SoftLogica\WAPT Pro 2.0\TestData).
However, you can change
the location for log files generated by Load Agent in the
Load Agent Manager
(Store test data files in edit-box).
TestData folder contains a folder with users' logs which is named like this:
Test 0001 - [127.0.0.1] computer-name
Here you can see the number of test, IP address and name of computer where WAPT Pro
workplace component is running.
The next time you run a test, this folder is deleted. New log files are saved to a new folder:
Test 0002 - [127.0.0.1] computer-name
Names of log files are generated automatically. For example: 0_000_0.log is a full log for the first user of the first profile; 0_001_0.log is a full log for the second user of the first profile; 1_000_0.log is a full log for the first user of the second profile.
Here the first number is the number of user profile, the second is the number of virtual user, and the last
is the number of user's startup in case of periodic user load.
Note that WAPT Pro begins to count the number of profiles/users from zero.
Names of error log files look as follows: 0_000_0_errors.log 0_001_0_errors.log and so on.
When you open the Logs folder of Navigation Pane, WAPT Pro
workplace downloads users' logs from agents and displays information in the
Logs tree view. The workplace component saves logs to the default location which is specified in
General settings
(Save log files to edit-box).
The next time you run a test, logs may be overwritten by new log files.
If you wish to use the generated logs later, you can save them manually by clicking the
Save Logs... option on the File menu.
Example of Log
You can view all logs generated during test run just in WAPT Pro.
Expand the Logs folder of the Navigation Pane, and you will see the
tree view with several levels of detail: profile, user and session.
Using the tree view, you will find any information easily without the need to search through megabytes of log files.
You can navigate to any particular request or virtual user.
When you click on any item of the Logs tree view,
you will see the corresponding part of log in the upper right pane.
You can use an additional toolbar
under the Navigation Pane to
browse virtual users, user sessions and errors one by one.
Additional toolbar becomes active when you click on any item of the Logs tree view.
Below is the example of full log.
The upper right pane shows the sequence of sent HTTP requests and received server responses.
The first request in the sequence is the main request, others are requests for page elements
(images, CSS, JavaScript etc). The main request is highlighted in green if it
was processed without errors.
Requests for page elements have gray color in the sequence.
Error log shows the sequence of sent HTTP requests for which an error occurred during the test.
Such requests are highlighted in red.
The lower pane has several tabs: Request, Response Header,
Response Body and Browser View.
Request: Here you can see the sent HTTP request.
Response Header: Here you can see the HTTP header of server response.
Response Body: HTML code of server response is displayed on this tab.
You can search for some text string on any of these tabs: Request,
Response Header and Response Body.
Find: Type the text that you want to find. The program will highlight all occurrences of the
entered text.
Use the Previous and Next buttons to move to the previous/next occurrence
of the text.
Browser View: Here you can see the server response as it is displayed in browser without images.
Compare Recorded and Test Responses WAPT Pro allows you to compare the recorded server response
(received during the recording process) and test server response (received during test run).
This information will help you understand what parameters change dynamically during the test. It is often used
when you verify a test scenario with dynamic parameter values.
You can compare response headers or response bodies.
Select Response Header or Response Body tab and click the
Compare with recorded... button. In the displayed window you can see the differences
between recorded and test responses.
(If responses are identical, you will see the corresponding message.)
Green color shows an added text - a text which is absent in the
recorded response but present in the test response.
Red color shows a deleted text - a text which is present in the recorded response
but absent in the test response.
Blue color shows a changed text - a text which is different in responses.
Use the Previous Difference and Next Difference buttons to browse differences
one by one. If you need to search for some word or phrase in the text, click Ctrl+F to open the search dialog.
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