Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Starting eValid with Common Device Settings

We have been asked many times, "What is the best way to have eValid imitate mobile device XYZ?"

The best solution is to start eValid using the -AGENT switch to specify the User Agent String (UAS) which eValid is supposed to be using.

When eValid starts up it will continue to use that particular UAS until you close that instance.  All of the browsing you do in this mode will be reported to the server as arising from that specified device.

To see how this appears you might want to look at this page:
Starting eValid With A Specific User Agent String (UAS).

This page illustrates how different the delivered HTML appears when it has been tailored by the web server for the particular device. (In this case, an iPad and an iPhone).

Here are a dozen start up sequences for some Common Devices.

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Selected User Forum Posts

Beginning in mid-2010 we have directed all technical support questions to the eValid User Forum. We have learned that when one user has an issue, all users can profit from the answer.

Here is an additional selection of some of the posts that we think would be of general interest.

Friday, July 20, 2012

Selected User Forum Posts

Beginning in mid-2010 we have directed all technical support questions to the eValid User Forum. We have learned that when one user has an issue, all users can profit from the answer.

Here is an additional selection of some of the posts that we think would be of general interest.

Sunday, July 15, 2012

Selected User Forum Posts

Beginning in mid-2010 we have directed all technical support questions to the eValid User Forum. We have learned that when one user has an issue, all users can profit from the answer.

Here is an additional selection of some of the posts that we think would be of general interest.

  1. How important is "realism" in load testing? -- Some of the background on how eValid assures realistic testing. 
  2. Time Modal Dialogs -- Hints on timing modal dialogs.
  3. Can eValid test AJAX apps that run on mobile devices? -- Dressing eValid to look like a mobile device that runs an AJAX app. 
  4. eValid record from the Google search input field -- Recording in the presence of an autocomplete input field. 
  5. Which databases and which monitoring environments -- Suggestions about capturing and displaying eValid monitoring data.