Tip: When there are multiple response formats for a particular command

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RoyL asked Jan 17, '11 Spirent_Admin edited Jan 17, '11

Tip: When there are multiple response formats for a particular command

You might want to develop multiple response maps for a command that returns different responses in different conditions. For example:

A command returns five columns of data on one platform and only three columns on a different platform
Platform-independent teams must test features across several platforms and responses can vary widely

Key strategies

Develop a unique response map for each form of the response and let iTest choose which response map to apply (by keeping the maps together in a response map library).
Configure identical Applicability settings for each response map.
Ensure that iTest cycles through all applicable maps when attempting to map a response. With this setting, if mapping fails for one map, iTest generates an error and then tries the next applicable map. If any map ultimately succeeds in mapping the response, then iTest does not generate an error message.

For table maps: On the Table page of the Response Map editor, we check the

Required: Generate an error if the table is not found at least once check box.

For p attern maps: On the Pattern page of the Response Map editor, we check the

Generate an error if no matches are found check box.

For block maps: On the Block page of the Response Map editor, for all blocks

and containers,we check the

T his block/container must appear at least once check box.

iTest response map block map pattern map

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Answer 1 · 2012-07-23T14:38:25Z

bbaker answered Jul 23, '12 bbaker posted Jul 23, '12

I have a pattern map that may or may not contain a certain output. This forces me to disable the option "Generate an error if no matches are found". I now have to update this map to handle two different formats for when the response does contain output.

How can you create a response map that supports multiple output formats, but not generate an error if there is no outupt?

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amresh commented · Jul 23, 2012 at 05:42 PM

Hi Bill,

We can create a response map for multiple output formats by adding multiple samples in a response map file.

We need to make sure that in a single response map file, we could use only Pattern and Table mapping (or) Block.We cannot use three in a single response map file at once.

Thanks,

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bbaker amresh commented · Jul 23, 2012 at 05:51 PM

Yes, I have each format of output in a single response map as different samples. I have then built one pattern for the first sample, and a second pattern for the other sample. For each pattern I have disabled "Generate an error if no matches are found" because sometimes, the response may not contain the output, and because with two different sampels, one pattern will always generate an error for the sample it doesn't match.

My problem is when my output matches the second sample, and second pattern, iTest is still applying the first pattern.

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