Your tests represent a significant
investment in time and effort. You can share or reuse them for different
configurations and web hosts by changing the variables for the host
name and port.
Before you begin
Before you begin, confirm that
test generation preferences are set to support data correlation. Click , click
the
Data Correlation tab, and verify that
Automatically
correlate host and port data is selected. If not, select
that option and regenerate the test.
About this task
Perhaps you develop the tests on a lab computer and then
they want to run them on a production server. If the application that
you are testing is identical on both computers, you can change the
host name and reuse the tests on the production server.
Procedure
To change the name of the host or proxy server on all
requests in a test:
- In the Test Navigator, browse to the test and double-click
it. The test opens.
- Expand the Test Variable section
at the top of the test, and click the Server Connection variable that
contains the hostname that you want to change.
- In the Test Element Details area, perform the following
steps:
- Type the new host name in the Host field.
- Optional: Type a new port number in the Port field.
The new hostname and port combination is correlated to
the test variable, which contains the value currently being used.
Results
Note: To change the host names and ports of many tests, put
the server connection variable in a datapool and associate the datapool
with the tests. When you change the name and port in the datapool,
that change is propagated throughout the tests in the datapool. For
more information, see
Creating a datapool associated with a test.