Service Virtualization

Scenario:

The "Send email step" does not create a response of its own as it sends the request (Your HTML Email body) to the SMTP server and the server forwards it to the respective machine(to-List and cc-List).

Requirement:

I want to store the step request(the HTML email body) that is in the send email step (and gets forwarded to the SMTP server).

Challenge:

The content that comes in the send email step is generated dynamically and thus I can not store it before sending.

One thing that I can do is adding a store step response just before the send email step and add a filter "Store step response" on the send email step, but, I have a lot of test cases and a total of around 200+ email steps so adding an output log message step before every send email step is a bit hectic job.

Please help.

I wonder if you could use a Scripted Assertion on the Send Email step to access the content of step instance in TestExec and save the value of the Message into a property?

The following is an untested hack, but I wonder if your Send Mail Step Scripted Assertion could:

// Access and Print Subject and Message of an Email
import com.itko.lisa.glass.SendEmailStep;
import java.util.Map;

// Replace this with the exact name of the Send Mail Step in the Test
String testStepName = "Send Email Step";

// Locate the testStepName in the current Test instance
// Access the properties that were set up on Send Mail Step
Map m = testExec.TestCase.getNode( testStepName ).getProperties();

// Get a property or properties from the Map. Other properties are

// m.get("From")   m.get("To")   m.get("Cc")   m.get("Bcc")

// use parseInState to replace {{ }} notations in the content
String subject = testExec.parseInState( m.get("Subject") );
String message = testExec.parseInState( m.get("Message") );

// Store Step Message in a property
testExec.setStateValue( "fl_emailMessage", message );
testExec.setStateValue( "fl_emailSubject", subject );

// Or, output a log message for the desired subject and message content
_logger.info("Subject is: {} and Message is: {}", subject, message );

// Or, Add Java file io to save the message to the file system with a unique key

// Set the If False then Fail the Test
// Return True so false is never executed
return true;

The [String testStepName = "Send Email Step"] above is a reference to the name of the step in your test case.

Note: Adding a Filter on this step to perform some action on fl_emailMessage will not work since Filters are executed prior to Assertions.