What is Solex ?
Solex is a free open source Web application testing tool built as a plug-in
for the Eclipse IDE. It provides
functions to record a client session, adjust it according to various
parameters and replay it later typically in order to ensure non regression of
the application's behaviour (with stress testing capabilities being added at a
later stage).
By recording, we mean that Solex acts as an HTTP proxy and records all HTTP
requests and responses going through the wire between a Web client (eg. a Web
browser) and a Web server. The task of replaying a scenario consists in
sending the previously recorded and eventually customized HTTP requests to the
server and asserting each response.
Solex
0.5.0 works with Eclipse Release 2.1.2,
Build id: 200311030802 and Solex 0.5.3
works with Eclipse Release 3.1.1, Build
id: M20050929-0840. You will also need a JRE 1.4.x or later.
Why another testing tool ?
Solex
started as an internal project because we were unable to find an open source
testing tool fully suitable to our needs and in particular capable of
dynamically altering requests. Furthermore, the tool was expected to be fully
integrated with our internal development environment based on the Eclipse
platform.
For some web applications, a request depends on a
previous server's response. To address such a requirement, Solex introduces
the concept of extraction and replacement rules. An extraction
rule tied to an HTTP message content will bind an extracted value with a
variable. A replacement rule will replace any part of an HTTP message with a
variable content.
Solex
therefore provides an easy way to extract URL parameters, Header values or any
part of a request or a response, bind their values with variables and then
replace URL parameters, Header values or any part of a request with the variable
content.
What can I do with Solex?
- Solex can record HTTP messages by acting as a Web
proxy.
- Recorded sessions can be saved as XML and reopened
later.
- HTTP requests and responses are fully displayed in
order to inspect and customize their content, thanks to replacement rules.
- Solex allows the attachment of extraction or
replacement rules to any HTTP message content, HTTP header or URL parameter.
- Recorded requests can be filtered to remove or
disable unwanted resources, like .jpg, .gif.
- Solex allows the attachment of assertions to
responses in order to validate a scenario during its playback.
- Solex can replay an HTTP session request by request
or all requests at once.
- Playback results can be exported as XML with an
optional XSL transformation.
What do I need to run Solex ?
- The primary requirement is to have Eclipse
(http://www.eclipse.org) version 2.1.2 (or above) installed on your
computer.
- Download a Solex distribution from Sourceforge
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/solex).
- Install the Solex plug-in: decompress the Solex
archive in your Eclipse plugins folder and start Eclipse.
- Follow this tutorial.
To get more detail: http://solex.sourceforge.net/
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