Scenario Wide DPL

The Scenario wide DPL works similarly to the 'UniqueDPL' that will use existing unique service code to handle the data, and similar to the 'TheLocker' that it can provide objects and share them between different scripts. But it has the advantage that its contents will be available among different test cases and different nodes. So it is not user-dependent.

This DPL would be a scenario provided DPL that will always be available within the Scenario, across users and test cases, as well as across Iterations.

DPL can store or retrieve serialized objects. The data stored in this warehouse should be disk-based as the data can grow large.

The DPL System consists of 2 classes Scenario Wide DPL which is the actual DPL but also a client and the 'ScenarioWideDPLService 'which is the actual service holding the data.

Scenario wide DPL has two actions 'getNextData' and 'getCurrentData'. The first script will use 'getNextData', while the subsequent scripts will use 'getCurrentData', if they want to share data among scripts. In the next screenshot you will see data shared among a HAR script and a Javascript.

In this example whatever data goes to the HAR, the same data will be sent to the Java method.

Use case:

A user will like to have a way where he can add several rows of data using a set of nodes (likely during a setup), and then use them using a possibly different set of nodes (during an iteration).

The user will start Appvance is a hostname called AppvaneHost, in port 8080. For the setup user will use the tool.jar and using the class ScenarioWideDPL and the method ‘put’, will add the desired rows.

A call will be similar to

ScenarioWideDPL swdpl = new ScenarioWideDPL();

swdpl.setup("URL","Storage Name",false);

URL: Instance running Appvance (required). This machine will run the service that will control the delivery of unique data among test nodes and users.

Storage name: the name of the storage.

NOTE: Two DPLs with the same URL and different storage names will not share any data, Two DPLs with the same URL and same storage will share the same data.

False – Print Scenario Wide DPL access – Set to true or false. Print Scenario Wide DPL access: Indicates if the server should print every time a new row has been added or removed. This message will be printed in Options-> Local Output logs.

Example: swdpl.setup("http://AppvanceHost:8080","MyStorage",false);

During testing user will use the scenario builder to pass data to the test cases, in order to pass the data user will first define the DPL in resources

Users can add Global set up using Java (or TestNG) script type to store data in Storage and pass it back to 'getNextData' method.

If the show storage activity is checked, in the console it will show when a new row is being added or used.