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.

• A special unique number for each session -- A clever solution to do this? 
• "Adaptive playback" feature -- Some background details about how this important eValid feature is implemented? 
• eValid can "pretend" to be any type of device -- How eValid imitates other devices. 
• Two (or more) instances of eValid running in parallel -- Support for, and limitations of, parallel executions. 
• Why can't eValid change its "agent string"? -- Explanation of when a changed User Agent String takes effect.

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.

•  Do you guys have a "software as a service" type license? -- About an eValid Commercial License. 
• Testing Mobile Web Apps. -- A short primer on testing applications aimed at mobile platforms.
• How reliable is eValid? -- Some customers run millions of tests per month, no problem. 
• About testing from the cloud. -- Considerations in driving tests from cloud resources. 
• Other browser based test tools -- A few basic differences between eValid and "the other guys." 

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.

• Tell me more about your maintenance/support contract? -- The great deal you get with a maintenance agreement. 
• Do you have a way to generate a set of records? -- How to collect large amounts of data in server loading. 
• Is there a way to see which AJAX calls? -- How to look inside AJAX operating modes. 
• Offer DOM-based Synchronization -- Synchronization is possible on ANY DOM object/value. 
• Recording from life and then hand-modifying a script. -- The recommended method of "least work" using eValid. 

Mobile Device Testing Solution

Recently we have had a number of people showing interest in eValid as the basis for all kinds of testing of mobile or portable devices -- from smartphones to tablets to whatever.

Here is a link to a summary of how the eValid solution addresses the issues of testing mobile devices:

  http://www.e-valid.com/Products/Documentation.9/Mobile/mobile.solution.html

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.

• Can eValid be run as a service? -- Testing a web service can be done from an HTML page? 
• The specific substring in pages -- How to filter an entire website for string matches? 
• How many BUs can I expect on a Virtual Machine? -- Maximum achieved BU counts and how it's done? 
• Can you synchronize playback on an image? -- Using a screen-scraped checksum to sync playback. 
• Record an app by using its "mobile" or "portable" screen -- Tricks to allow eValid to emulate a mobile device.  

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.

• Testing Smartphone Applications -- How does testing a smartphone differ from testing a desktop application? 
• Can eValid drive loads for mobile applications? -- Using the eValid system to stress mobile web application servers. 
• Can eValid analyze any web page? -- Some notes about eValid quality requirements. 
• A Really Strict Test -- What happens if you turn of adaptive playback? 
• Does the page map always portray? -- Details of operation of the PageMap feature. 

Product Documentation Updated, Expanded

From time to time we update the eValid documentation to include new descriptions and additional material that we have developed.  In the past few weeks our efforts have expanded the complete eValid V9 package by about 40% over the prior version.

In addition, we have updated the internal search capability to pick up as many pages as possible (previously it delivered matches only on a selected subset of pages.

Overall we believe eValid users who access the full product documentation from the eValid browser will appreciate the improvements.