NAME

Webinject - Perl Module for testing web services

SYNOPSIS

    use Webinject;
    my $webinject = Webinject->new();
    $webinject->engine();

DESCRIPTION

WebInject is a free tool for automated testing of web applications and web services. It can be used to test individual system components that have HTTP interfaces (JSP, ASP, CGI, PHP, AJAX, Servlets, HTML Forms, XML/SOAP Web Services, REST, etc), and can be used as a test harness to create a suite of [HTTP level] automated functional, acceptance, and regression tests. A test harness allows you to run many test cases and collect/report your results. WebInject offers real-time results display and may also be used for monitoring system response times.

CONSTRUCTOR

new ( [ARGS] )

Creates an Webinject object.

reporttype

possible values are 'standard', 'nagios', 'nagios2', 'mrtg' or 'external:'

nooutput

suppress all output to STDOUT, create only logilfes

break_on_errors

stop after the first testcase fails, otherwise Webinject would go on and execute all tests regardless of the previous case.

timeout

Default timeout is 180seconds. Timeout starts again for every testcase.

useragent

Set the useragent used in HTTP requests. Default is 'Webinject'.

max_redirect

Set maximum number of HTTP redirects. Default is 0.

proxy

Sets a proxy which is then used for http and https requests.

output_dir

Output directory where all logfiles will go to. Defaults to current directory.

globalhttplog

Can be 'yes' or 'onfail'. Will log the http request and response to a http.log file.

httpauth

Provides credentials for webserver authentications. The format is:

  ['servername', 'portnumber', 'realm-name', 'username', 'password']

baseurl

the value can be used as {BASEURL} in the test cases

baseurl1

the value can be used as {BASEURL1} in the test cases

baseurl2

the value can be used as {BASEURL2} in the test cases

standaloneplot

can be "on" or "off". Default is off. Create gnuplot graphs when enabled.

graphtype

Defaults to 'lines'

gnuplot

Defines the path to your gnuplot binary.

METHODS

engine

start the engine of webinject

EXAMPLES

example test case

  <testcases>
    <case
      id             = "1"
      description1   = "Sample Test Case"
      method         = "get"
      url            = "{BASEURL}/test.jsp"
      verifypositive = "All tests succeded"
      warning        = "5"
      critical       = "15"
      label          = "testpage"
      errormessage   = "got error: {PARSERESPONSE}"
    />
  </testcases>

detailed description about the syntax of testcases can be found on the Webinject homepage.

SEE ALSO

For more information about webinject visit http://www.webinject.org

AUTHOR

Corey Goldberg, <corey@goldb.org>

Sven Nierlein, <nierlein@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2010 by Sven Nierlein

Copyright (C) 2004-2006 by Corey Goldberg

This library is free software; you can redistribute it under the GPL2 license.