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.

• More Than 50 Simultaneous Users -- LoadTest runs with multiple user account details.
• I Don't Have Fixed ID Tags -- Overcoming pages with dynamic ID tags.
• eValid Structural Commands -- Resource pages for eValid structural testing.
• Recording the mouse position -- Explanation of eValid recording process for mouse clicks.
• "Application mode" recording -- Recording from desktop (not browser) objects explained.

eValid Applied To Mobile Devices

In response to some user's questions, we recently did some experimentation with evalid imitating different mobile devices. The question was, can eValid show the differences between server response on a variety of mobile devices?

We used the SetUserAgent command to set eValid to provide authentication as if from a different user agent. We chose to use the user agent string for an iPhone -- not for any particular reason and certainly not an endorsement -- just to see what would happen when imitating that popular device.

Next, we chose five popular sites to run a simple test on: Amazon, Meebo, Samsung, Sony, and Verizon. (Again, no endorsement implied).

The outcome of our experiment is shown in this simple summary: Mobile Agent Test Page

As you can see from this page, in most cases the servers responded differently -- as you would expect -- when told to feed data to a mobile device. The side-by-side comparisons of the single response page show how different things are. For three of the five applications the size of the delivered data was < 20% of the full-size file.

Note that the page rendering appeared to be quite normal (except for total screen area). We didn't note any essential differences.

But not in every case. The Sony and Verizon mobile downloads are around 90% of the full-size download. We checked the actual content and found for these it appears there were some Flash items and also some movie items in what is sent to the mobile device.

One obvious implication is that this technique may be very valuable in using eValid to drive substantial loads into a server that is serving mobile applications. eValid's inherent scalability is what does the trick.

Webinar: The eValid Real Client Loading Solution

Functional Testing of AJAX/Web 2.0 Applications
Server Loading Scenario Development
Server Load Testing with eValid's Real "Browser Users"

Wednesday, 4 May 2011
2:00 PM Eastern Time / 11:00 AM Pacific Time

This webinar will focus on testing AJAX/Web 2.0 applications quickly and realistically. Whether you are focused on desktops, handhelds, or mobile applications, the number of different users makes predicting demand almost impossible. An incorrectly balanced server stack could create delivery contention and delays, and lead to customer click-away -- customers you can't afford to lose.

The eValid client-side testing approach is the original browser based test solution. eValid is a self-contained one-stop real client based solution for all of the most important quality and performance issues of AJAX/Web 2.0 applications. The eValid consolidated approach becomes a genuine force multiplier in your web application testing and loading efforts:

• Achieve effective functional testing of your AJAX/Web 2.0 applications.
• Create realistic loading scenarios with multiple functional behavio
• Impose very large real client application loads on your servers.

The eValid suite meets these requirements in a unified, easy-to-use, and easy-to-understand solution. eValid doesn't require programming skill, doesn't need special plugins or adapters. eValid runs quickly and efficiently. You'll achieve web quality solutions in days or weeks rather than weeks or months.

In this webinar you'll learn these important lessons:

AJAX/Web 2.0 Functional Testing: How to record perfectly reliable web application tests, out-of-the-box, including complex AJAX/Web 2.0 playback synchronization issues.

Handling Mobile Devices: How to use eValid features to model handheld and mobile devices.

Creating LoadTest Scenarios: How to organize multiple eValid functional tests into LoadTest scenarios that model your actual user's activity mix.

Running LoadTests: How to launch eValid load testing scenarios that can run 100's, 1,000's or even 10,000's of browser users (BUs).

Realistic Data: How to extract detailed performance data from each BU's activity.

Selected User Forum Posts

• Synchronise the BUs -- Intra-script cross-BU synchronization options.
• Screen comparison test check -- How to compare two FLASH pages.
• Load test a shopping site -- Parametric access to multiple shopping cart selections.
• The playback speed -- Methods to vary the playback speed of a browser instance.
• A DOM index/element number -- How playback of a page link is done using DOM details.
  

Selected User Forum Posts

• More Than 50 Simultaneous Users -- LoadTest runs with multiple user account details.
  
• I Don't Have Fixed ID Tags -- Overcoming pages with dynamic ID tags.
• eValid Structural Commands -- Resource pages for eValid structural testing.
• Recording the mouse position -- Explanation of eValid recording process for mouse clicks.
  
• "Application mode" recording -- Recording from desktop (not browser) objects explained.
  

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.

• Synchronise the BUs -- Intra-script cross-BU synchronization options.
  
• Screen comparison test check -- How to compare two FLASH pages.
• Load test a shopping site -- Parametric access to multiple shopping cart selections.
• The playback speed -- Methods to vary the playback speed of a browser instance.
• A DOM index/element number -- How playback of a page link is done using DOM details.
  

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.

• More Than 50 Simultaneous Users -- LoadTest runs with multiple user account details.
  
• I Don't Have Fixed ID Tags -- Overcoming pages with dynamic ID tags.
• eValid Structural Commands -- Resource pages for eValid structural testing.
• Recording the mouse position -- Explanation of eValid recording process for mouse clicks.
  
• "Application mode" recording -- Recording from desktop (not browser) objects explained.