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Chapter 10, Work with Visual Studio Tools
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the test name and a timestamp. Every time a test is performed, ACT gener-
ates a report, even if the test was stopped before it completed. And if you
rerun the same test with the same configuration over and over, ACT will still
generate separate reports for each test run.
To delete a test report, right-click on a report in the test results window and
select Delete.
If you do not like ACT’s report naming convention, you can rename a report
by right-clicking on it, selecting Rename, and typing in a new name. For
instance, you might want to name a report based on the test name and its
configuration, such as Report-GetOrdersDataSet-1000Iterations or Report-
GetOrdersDataSet-10Connections-1Hour.
Customizing Test Scripts
As mentioned earlier, browser recorded test scripts are autogenerated using
VBScript. This has its advantages, because you can customize and/or mod-
ify the generated VBScript to better suit the specific needs of your tests. In
most cases, the autogenerated script will be all you need, but it’s nice to
know that if you need to change it, you can very easily. You can see the gen-
erated VBScript by simply double-clicking a test in your ACT Project. A
sample is shown in Figure 10-8.
The format of the script is simple and modular. For every single request in
the recorded test, a
SendRequest( ) method is created, ...