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Subject: Re: Unexpected Behaviour with TestPlan-Level User Defined Variables
From: Michael Stover <mstover1@apache.org>
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Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:04:20 -0400
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Funny you should mention that as I've just reworked the TestPlan element
so that functions can be used in it's user-defined variables section
(they will be evaluated once - useful for, say ,the __P function).  I'm
wondering whether I dare risk committing it for the 2.1 release.

The bug you mention regarding the config element is very interesting.
Sounds like a neat feature actually :-)  I'll take a look..


-Mike

On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 19:37 +0000, Peter Bernier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm just trying to figure out whether or not this is a bug.
> 
> When you have a User-Defined Variables Config Element at the Test-Plan
> level (as opposed to on the Test Plan node itself), variables are
> re-calculated with every request (as opposed to at the Thread Group or
> below level where they're calculated once).
> 
> This is different from the behaviour of this Config Element anywhere else
> in a Test Plan. I'm just wondering whether this is expected behaviour,
> or not?
> 
> Specifically what's got me is that in the Component Reference (Sec
> 15.4.14) It says "The User Defined Variables lets you define variables
> for use in other test elements, just as in the Test Plan.", but this
> isn't quite accurate since you can use functions (ie, __Random) on the
> UDV Config Element whereas you can't on the Test Plan's UDV.
> 
> The reason I bring this up is that I've recently switched to storing
> TestPlan-wide variables in a UDV Config Element at the Test-Plan level
> as opposed to on the Test Plan node itself. (due to Bug 35872)
> 
> - Peter Bernier
> 
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