Parameterization in OpenSTA

Consider the Scenario, parameterizing the Username and Password in Login screen,

1.Record the script

2.Create a dataset for username and password in different notepads and save it with extension .fvr
3.Copy the created files and place it in the Data Folder of OpenSTA installation directory,

Ex:C:\Program Files\OpenSTA\Repository\Data

4.Under the Definition section of the recorded script place the following lines,

CHARACTER*512 fileuser, FILE = "users", SCRIPT

CHARACTER*512 filepassword, FILE = "password", SCRIPT

CHARACTER*100 currentUsername, LOCAL

CHARACTER*100 currentPassword, LOCAL

Note:

users - filename of the file that contains the username

password - filename of the file that contains the password

5.In the script recorded, above the Post url where the login data will be passed, place the following code,

ACQUIRE MUTEX "Logn"

NEXT fileuser

NEXT filepassword

SET currentusername = fileuser

SET currentpassword = filepassword

LOG "User: ", fileuser, " - Password: ", filepassword

LOG "User: ", currentUsername, " - Password: ", currentPassword

RELEASE MUTEX "Logn"

Note:

Make sure you use the mutex, or each thread may not use a distinct value from the list/file.

6.In the Post Url section replace the values passed in login with the variables we have created i.e currentusername for Username and currentpassword for Password.

7.Run the Script, different values will be passed for different iterations from the file created.