RE: Continuing tests after a step failure

Hi,

Just reading back catalog of topics on the mailing list having  
questioned to myself whether tests could continue a step failure and I  
found this thread.

Personally I think there is some value in having a soft step failure,  
i.e. a step failure that does not cause subsequent steps in a webtest  
to fail.  For example I have a test case that involves multiple forms  
and I want to verify the title of each form as I go through the  
flow.   I ran this test and it failed on the second form because the  
title on the second page was not correct.  That's fine - because  
that's a failed test, however this failure does not in reality prevent  
the functional flow from continuing, the second form can still be  
filled in and run OK.  Now I could out the tests into separate  
webtests, and I could write the steps as macrodefs (or Groovy closures  
as I'm writing tests in Groovy), but this seems an unnecessary  
abstraction when I have a single script which I'd like to cover  
various functional aspects.

For example my groovy test script might be written as ...

       webtest("test name") {
         group login
         verifyTitle 'Title 1'
         group inputForm1.curry(name:'Test',age:
65,sex:'Female',smoker:'No')
         verifyTitle 'Title 2'
        group inputForm2.curry(name:'Test',age:65,sex:'Male',smoker:'No')
         verifyText 'Title 3'
       }

(where login, inputForm1 and inputForm2 are closures defining how I  
log in and fill in the two forms)

Having a construct where I could identify one of the steps as a soft  
failure, e.g.

   soft { verifyTitle 'Title 2' }

would be extremely useful, keep my test as a single script and allow  
me to identify steps which do not break the flow on failure.

What's the general consensus on this and would this approach be  
something that would be considered?

Ian

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