This topic explains how to apply and configure the Search tool in SOAtest and Virtualize. This tool searches text for user-defined keywords. It can be configured to detect either the presence of unwanted terms or the absence of expected terms.
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- Search Terms: Specifies the terms that the tool searches for.
- To add a search term, type it in the New Search Term field, then click Add.
- When the Search tool searches HTML and XML pages, it does not parse the code; consequently, if you are looking for a string that is broken up by markup tags, you must include those tags in your search keyword.
- To remove selected search terms, select the terms in the Search Terms list, then click Remove.
- To remove all search terms, click Clear.
- To import search terms, click Import. You will be able to import multiple messages/terms from a CSV file.
- To export search terms, click Export. All terms will be exported to a file in the same format.
- To add a search term, type it in the New Search Term field, then click Add.
Custom Output Message: Specifies the message that displays in the Quality Tasks view when a failure is found. When using a search tool in the context of a project
Conditional Content Product: (SOAtest, SOAVirt) Product: (SOAtest, SOAVirt) sv-attr:0A010204015A9054C88481D043445E2F 0A010204015CF6008A11EEF43AC91334 0A010204015A9054C886C0AC137B8C01 (for example, in a test suite)
, you can parameterize the messages that the search tool outputs if a search term is found (or not found, depending on the settings). This allows you to use a list of output messages from a data source, which is not possible any other way.
Two special wildcards are allowed in messages. The wildcards will be replaced with the appropriate values:
%0will be replaced by the keyword that was or was not found. In regular expression mode, this will be the actual string on the page that matched the regular expression.%1: will be replaced with the regular expression pattern that was being used to search when the search tool is in regular expression mode.- Apply current message to all terms: Select to apply the current message to all terms.
- Treat term as word: Select to treat the entered term as a word.
- Use Regular Expressions: Determines whether the keywords should be treated as regular expressions or as normal text.
- Ignore Case: Determines whether to ignore case while matching keywords.
- Display Message if Search Term: Select Found to specify that the message should display if a search term is found (use this to detect the presence of unwanted terms). Select Not Found to specify that the message should display if a search term is not found (use this to detect the absence of expected terms).