Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some selected posts from our eValid forum:

Question on devices for web apps -- Concerns about overloading the server with too many devices resolved.

Help with a photo array application? -- How to handle testing a photo array on a website.

How easy does eValid support frames? -- Details on how eValid actually does handle frames and iframes.

Legality of modifying DOM elements? -- Some discussion to resolve a user's doubts and concerns.

Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some selected posts from our eValid forum:

Getting a lot of JavaScript Errors -- How best to deail with a problematic JavaScript-heavy page.

Regarding Microsoft putting WebDriver in IE11+ browsers -- Some exciting developments that advance automated web-browser based testing. 

Load Testing ... how does eValid do it??? -- Some explanations of how eValid can drive 1,000 real browsers from a single machine. 

How to handle a pop-up that keeps asking about password -- Another tough testing problem resolved with DOM manipulation! 

Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some selected posts from our eValid forum:

Simulate two users talking to each other -- A novel use of two eValid browsers to test an unusual situation.

Simple way to look up syntax of an eValid command -- It is a special built-in connection from a live script to the script language definition.

Do all elements on a page have to visible? -- It is an old controversy, but one that that comes back again and again, but it's still important.

eValid's dual modes -- Even in this age of smartphones and tablets, we get a lot of questions about about how to test web applications that interact with the desktop. eValid can do it.

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.

Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some selected posts from our eValid forum:

How to extract links from a page using eValid -- Picking off links, the contents of DOM "anchor tags," is easy with eValid.

Like to test a new gateway -- A new gateway may need testing with lots of different browser types, something eValid can do with ease.

Timing Questions -- Some basic factoids about how evalid times things during a test playback sequence.

JavaScript Errors -- How eValid handles errors in JavaScript during a test playback by noting them in the EventLog.

Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some selected posts from our eValid forum:

Documentation answer regarding browsers in private browsing -- About the interaction of the cache and eValid test playbacks.

The future of automated web testing -- The furauter is always hard to predict, but here are some thoughts about where we see automated testing going in the future.

Question regarding screen sizes -- Big screen vs. small screen and some of the issues in regarding to engineering tests that work appropriately.

Having a problem w/eValid on security testing application -- Some general advice about handling eValid behavior across browser versions. 

Selected Recent Forum Posts

Here are some selected posts from our eValid forum:

eValid taking a long time to load a page -- Wondering about why playback is taking so long? Here are some clues to be looking for.

iPad vs Desktop -- Here are some extended comments about using eValid in "mobile device emulation mode".

Site analysis question -- And, in answer to a common-enough question, yes, eValid CAN run Site Analysis checks while it is imitating a non-PC (non-desktop) device.

Trouble with structural commands -- Here are some suggestions about how to use eValid structural testing commands to match a string expressed as a regular expression.