How to delete an image request from a web test in vsts 2008

Question

Hi,

I am using vsts 2008 version 9.0.21022 RTM running on windows server 2003 SP2 for a financial application. I did the registry changes so that all components(css, images, js etc.) are captured, however at recording css and js files and some images are not displayed in the web test editor.

Changes performed:-
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\EnterpriseTools\QualityTools\WebLoadTest]
"DefaultBrowserTemplate"="Internet Explorer 7.0"
"WebTestRecorderMode"="exclude"
"ExcludeMimeTypes"=""
"ExcludeExtensions"=""

At playback, the result window shows all the css, images, js associated with the application & for 1 particular image (which is not being captured by the recorder ) i am getting 404-Not found error. I wanted to delete the particular request for the image from the script.
Is there a way to delete this image request from the script ?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.


thanks in advance.

vishal

Answer 1

Hello vishal,

As I know we are not able to delete this particular request for image. But we could add this new dependent request to the corresponding request in web test editor and set the expected http status code to 404 to fix this issue.

You may refer to the following artilce for more detailed steps.
http://blogs.msdn.com/edglas/archive/2008/08/06/masking-a-404-error-in-a-dependent-request.aspx

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Answer 2

Hi Edwer,

Thanks for the link

Answer 3

There is another option.  First off, the 404 is likely highliting a problem that the web site you are testing is requesting a file that does not exist on the server.  You could create a request pluging which removes this particular dependent from being fetched.  Here is a link on how to do this: http://blogs.msdn.com/densto/pages/webtestrequest-dependentrequests-collection.aspx

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