Transaction log format change to reduce transaction log file size

[fcohen]

Luis Carlos wrote:

I am worried about the size of the xml if the test this amount of time. The size of the XML will be huge! It won't be able to process them. I propose 2 improvements to the current XML result system

- In the xml scenario add an attribute in logging tag: logerror="boolean" to indicate if the xml should log information about the error. This is to error information to increase the size of the XML in long runs.

- Modify the XML to shrink the size. A common line of result XML is

<testmaker version="126" usecase="DL03_Model_usecase"
target="NoTarget" node="cu005">
<testcase size="1" description="DL03_Model_usecase" cvus="25">
<transaction cvus="25" threadid="20" sequence="DL03_Model_sequence"
duration="900" error="" nodename="cu005" result="true"
timestamp="1211848870312" totaltime="91721" ></transaction>
<transaction cvus="25" threadid="3" sequence="DL03_Model_sequence"
duration="900" error="" nodename="cu005" result="true"
timestamp="1211848406831" totaltime="79620" ></transaction>
<transaction cvus="25" threadid="14" sequence="DL03_Model_sequence"
duration="900" error="" nodename="cu005" result="true"
timestamp="1211848875438" totaltime="96113" ></transaction>
</testcase>
</testmaker>

I will change it to

<testmaker version="126" usecase="DL03_Model_usecase"
target="NoTarget" node="cu005"  size="1"
description="DL03_Model_usecase" cvus="25" duration="900" >
<Definitions>
              <Sequences>
                              <Sequence name=
"DL03_Model_sequence" id= "1" />
<Sequences>
              <Steps>
                              ....
< Steps >
</ Definitions >

<results>
<tx thread="20" seq="1" result="true" timestamp="1211848870312"
totaltime="91721"/>
<tx thread="3" seq="1" result="true" timestamp="1211848406831"
totaltime="79620"/>
<tx thread="14" seq="1" result="true" timestamp="1211848875438"
totaltime="96113"/>
</results>
</testmaker>

We can shrink the names of thread,result,true-false,timestamp and totaltime to save space Like

<tx id="20" seq="1" rslt="1" stamp="1211848870312" dur="91721"/>

instead

<tx thread="20" seq="1" result="true" timestamp="1211848870312" totaltime="91721"/>

[mvillalobos]

I suggested Luis Carlos to include the Steps tag inside of the Sequence tag to visualize better which steps belong to each sequence. It seemed ok for him.

[fcohen]

Confirmed. -Frank