Function To Write Data in External File using Vugen

This function helps in many situations like:

1.       During the data validation, we need to check some system generated data for thousands of user ids.

e.g. If we have a banking application and we need to check balance amount in every user’s account numbers, it’s really tedious task to check manually thousands of user ids.

For situation like this, we create a script which captures amount for user and then we can write this Amount into external file using this function.

2.       During the load test we need to write confirmation number generated for each order which we have placed for having a count of how many orders we have placed.

We can easily fulfill these kinds of requirements using this function.  Follow easy 4 steps.

a.       Place the given function code in globals.h

ExportToFile (const char *buf,int len,char *filename)

{

     //char *filename;

       long pFile_User;

       pFile_User=fopen(filename,"a+");

       if(pFile_User!=NULL)

       {      fwrite(buf,len,1,pFile_User);

              //fputs("hi to all1",pFile_User);

              fputs("\r\n",pFile_User);

fclose(pFile_User);

       }

}

b.      Define the buffer variables as well file pointers for the required files in globals.h.

char *buff_Amount,*buff_ConfNum;

unsigned long len_Amount, len_ConfNum;

char *file_user = "c:\\Amount.txt";

char *file_passwd = "c:\\Confirmation_Number.txt";

c.       Correlate the Amount or the confirmation number in the script.

web_reg_save_param("Amount","LB/IC=Amount=\””,"RB/IC=</span>",Ord=1",“Search=body", LAST);

web_reg_save_param("Conf_Num","LB/IC=Conf_Num=\””,"RB/IC=</span>",Ord=1",“Search=body", LAST);

web_submit_form("banking.pl",

        "Snapshot=t4.inf",

        ITEMDATA,

        "Name=depart_name", "Value=London", ENDITEM,

        "Name=date", "Value=11/20/2003", ENDITEM,

        "Name=office "Value=101", ENDITEM,

        "Name=FA", "Value=060", ENDITEM,

        "Name=ActHolder", "Value=Robert", ENDITEM,        

        LAST );

d.      Write the given code below after this request to write the data in external file.

lr_eval_string_ext("{Amount}",strlen("{Amount}"),&buff_user,&len_user,0,0,-1);

lr_eval_string_ext("{Conf_Num}",strlen("{Conf_Num}"),&buff_passwd,&len_passwd,0,0,-1);

ExportToFile(buff_Amount, len_Amount, file_Amount);

ExportToFile(buff_Conf_Num, len_Conf_Num, file_Conf_Num);