Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some recent selected forum posts from our eValid forum:

Need help with filling out two blank fields on a webpage! -- Simple enough to do, explained here.

Can I launch eValid via the command line -- The command line interface is quite robust!

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How to consolidate all my loadtest results -- Step-by-step process to aggregate data.

Using the eValid select image or select text commands -- Validating the right text fragment is often critical!

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Help with an input field for XPath -- The key is to use the PageMap feature for find the right sourceIndex value.

The meaning on the eValid return codes during batch mode -- All the facts about the system interface!

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How does eValid handle website with Secure Session IDs -- Explanation of "secure zone" switches.

Record saving an image of a website answer -- Test passes if the screens match.

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Case studies of eValid used for Medical device monitoring -- A good example of eValid doing regular monitoring

All the command line switches that deal with batch scripts -- Effectively running eValid "in the background"

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Does eValid respect the Same Origin Policy? -- An old but critically important security issue.

Inserting a new recording into existing scripts -- Scripts can "call" other scripts!

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Using eValid to look for regular expressions -- The syntax may be tricky, but the powerful results are worth it.

Remembering individual user settings in eValid -- Every user can have their own profile to match individual needs.

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General questions about the eValid PageMap feature -- Looking inside the DOM for important testing clues.

Some details on eValid logfiles -- How eValid sends results to the "outside world" i.e. to Windows.

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Using eValid to record screen applications -- This enables eValid to handle both web and desktop testing in one system.

The main features on the eValid Site Mapping -- A summary of eValid spidering capabilities

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Running an eValid test in parallel -- The implications of "desktop safe" are explored.

Info on changing the Navigation output of a recording -- Fine-detail manipulation of a script for special effects.

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 Here are some recent selected forum posts from our eValid forum:

Details on eValid interfacing with SQL -- The interface you need is already there!

Using the value substitution feature in eValid -- How to pass parameters back and forth in eValid.

How eValid can keep up with all of the AJAX activity? -- Extra thoughts on synchronizing AJAX web apps.

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Details on how eValid keeps track of frames in a webpage -- Some web pages have multiple frames, and here is how you distinguish them.

Need help with modifying playback switches for my tests -- Keeping track of multiple parameters can be tricky, but eValid provides an easy mechanism.

How does eValid work with jQuery Mobile applications -- A fully worked example illustration jQuery interactions.

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Perform an event during an eValid playback test -- A deep dive into DOM event triggering.

Need to a way to check a batch of tests in parallel -- Suggestions on server loading runs.

Can eValid scripts call upon one another -- Amplifying scripts by invocations.

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eValid does work work with other character sets? -- The international edition (double-byte character set version) works here.

Does eValid test mobile applications -- If an app is seen in a browser, yes, eValid applies.

Same Origin Policy question -- eValid, as a web application driver, handles same-origin policy issues safely.

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Use eValid to improve my download speeds -- Maybe eValid can even help you fix performance issues?

Can eValid visit URL pages not visible -- What you get is not necessarily what you see, nor would you want it to be!

Server Loading for a mobile website -- Yes, eValid can pretend to be ANY browser on ANY device, so you can do a LOT of loading work from a single test engine.

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A few questions regarding AJAX -- More discussion about synchronization of AJAX applications

Seeking examples of what eValid emulates different-devices -- Some "how-to's" on using eValid for testing mobile applications.

Need help with a test items past the first one -- Here's a solution to a complex test concern.

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Can evalid be used to extract performance timings? -- The main KPIs you need are built into eValid to make monitoring easy.

Does eValid test mobile apps? -- Here is the story on having eValid imiate other browsers besides the native IE equivalent.

Need help with a RESET button thats on a form page! -- The eValid structural web page testing commands make handling a RESET button easy.

Will eValid work on IE11 Windows 10? -- The lastest version of eValid runs fine on the latest versions of Windows and IE.

eValid Supports Mobile Via Device Imitation

We know that many of our customers use eValid in "monitoring mode" which means, roughly, that they use eValid playbacks to collect detailed data about the behavior of their application (performance, validity, reliability, etc.). In most cases these test are run from from one or more geographic locations -- to show (and validate) performance from various locations worldwide.

We know that some of our "monitoring mode" users run multiple millions of tests per month, and that they run tests on some of the very most sophisticated business process software systems. You can get eValid to imitate any mobile device. There are many, many such.
Here is the simple batch command that does it:

start evalid -AGENT "Mozilla/5.0
    (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)
    AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0
    Mobile/1A543a Safari/419.3"
exit

As the number of devices grows, this especially affects our monitoring customers. But they're covered because they can monitor ANY device easily, and probably with existing test scripts.
You can also see Starting eValid With A Specific User Agent String (UAS) and Illustration of User Agent String Modification.

Feel free to contact us for more details, worked examples, comparative performance checks, etc.

Scaling Issues in Mobile Testing

The number of different mobile devices keeps growing. According to a Ryan Lawler post, some 7,000 Different Types Of Mobile Devices Access Facebook Every Day . Daily. And this was in 2012. The total number of combinations that may need to be tested is surely growing.

Two factors are involved: the number of different browser versions (currently > 500) and the number of different device development environment versions (currently > 100). You have to multiply these two factors to get the total "perfect" test count. Two factors are involved: the number of different browser versions (currently > 500) and the number of different device development environment versions (currently > 100). You have to multiply these two factors to get the total "perfect" test count.

Hence, scale is clearly important if you are working on testing mobile web applications. With that many device-browser combinations it becomes quite difficult to obtain actual instances of all of these devices. While some service solutions we've seen offer direct device tests of several hundred combinations, using actual devices that are controlled remotely, device-browser combinations in the 1,000's or 10,000's just aren't feasible economically.

eValid can overcome a major part of that difficulty with its ability to imitate other any browser. eValid can do this when launched from a command line option, or it can do this in individual subwindows launched inside a playback script using the SetUserAgent Command. The result is a quick -- and highly scalable -- method to test a web application in a variety of browsers.

The behavior variations between browsers can be quite remarkable, as this Mobile Agent Demonstration Experiment shows. For these 20 different mobile device browsers it's important to note how the pages vary, and how big the variations are in the downloaded file size. For good measure, here are Selected Screenshots for 200+ Mobile Devices.

Using eValid's device imitation feature it's possible to run full-realism, dynamic tests on 1,000's of browser variations by just putting the playback process in a loop, each repetition trying a different setting. Web application validation — an otherwise very difficult task to to with 100% thoroughness — becomes much easier because you can use a single test appliance with great scaling leverage.

Customer Finds Mobile Performance Flaw

We heard from an eValid user about a novel use of the internal timing capability to track down and fix a problem that only appeared when the application was viewed with evalid imitating a mobile device.

Their testing process involved setting up timing measurements within the DOM using the structural commands. The timing data let them to identify the fixes that were needed, and the same test setup was used to verify the performance improvement that was evident on the mobile device.
Here is the writeup they provided describing these results:


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