openSTA : Creating random variables

I've been involved with openSTA testing lately and will blog on some things I learned.

One thing I needed to do was to run some tests on a web service that creates files. Each file had to be a different name.

INTEGER FILECOUNT, SCRIPT
INTEGER TIMEVAL
CHARACTER*10 C_FC
CHARACTER*10 C_TIMEVAL

...

ACQUIRE TEST-WIDE MUTEX "FC"
SET FILECOUNT = FILECOUNT + 1
CONVERT FILECOUNT TO C_FC
RELEASE TEST-WIDE MUTEX "FC"

ACQUIRE TEST-WIDE MUTEX "DocID"
LOAD TIME into TIMEVAL
!Ensure that the time provides 7 digits
SET TIMEVAL = TIMEVAL + 1000000
CONVERT TIMEVAL TO C_TIMEVAL
RELEASE TEST-WIDE MUTEX "DocID"

and then in the web service, set the title to:

'Doc name '+ C_FC + C_TIMEVAL + '.doc

Enjoy!