Event ordering in Web Tests

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Web tests have a number of extensibility points before and after a request. What order do they run in?

The hooks are:

WebTestPlugin.PreRequest

WebTestRequestPlugin.PreRequest

ExtractionRule.Extract

ValidationRule.Validate

Here is a sequence diagram that shows what order things fire:

ResultsSequence

 

There is no guaranteed order of firing for WebTestPlugin.PreRequest and RequestPlugin.PreRequest. Also if you have >1 Extraction or Validation rule on a request there is no guaranteed order they are run in.

Also note that Pre and Post request events do not fire by default for dependents. You can hook the PostRequest call on a top level request and iterate through dependents to wire up event handlers if you need that functionality.

Ed.