Thursday, August 18, 2022

Selected Recent Forum Posts

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

Does eValid work with notations and variables? -- No, eValid commands are not a programming language, but there are some variables you can use to enhance your scripts.

How to return eValid to its default settings? -- It is a simple one-step operation.

Wednesday, July 20, 2022

Selected Recent Forum Posts

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

How do I extract text from an element? -- Text associated with DOM elements is easy to extract, and very good for validation steps.

Looking at error codes on the command line with PERL? -- If you're running PERL here is how to connect back to the PERL-issued error codes.

Friday, July 15, 2022

Commercial Licenses for eValid No Longer Supported

Effective 31 July 2022 eValid Commercial Licenses will no longer be supported.

eValid Commercial Licenses provide for a "pay-as-you-go" capability to run eValid playbacks -- typically for website monitoring purposes -- independent of the location or setup of the machine executing the test.

Playback executions are charged on a per-test basis.

As flexible and convenient as this is, to accomplish the authentication required additional web traffic and eValid server activity to provide immediate verification of the license.

Effectively, this process used was generating, in real-time, an on-demand one-off authorization for each eValid playback.

This produced additional web traffic that has been deemed undesirable.

For our customers, existing eValid Commercial License(s) will be converted an appropriate standard eValid license(s) at no charge.

Regular eValid licenses authentications are done internally to the playback machine and do not involve any web traffic for authentication.

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Selected Recent Forum Posts

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

String iframes alongside with the eValid page object model -- iFrames are important to handle correction!

Understanding the Variable Fidelity Playback in eValid -- This is important when designing load tests.

Friday, June 17, 2022

Selected Recent Forum Posts

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

Monitoring Response time in my website page -- Note that you can do this entirely within the page's DOM.

Validating some text to confirm I am in the correct place -- This technique helps you perfect DOM-dependent playbacks

Tuesday, May 31, 2022

Selected Recent Forum Posts

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

The Cumulative Summary Report Explained -- A valuable report for web application validation.

Does eValid do a DOM search for regular expressions (REs? -- You can put RE's into regular commands.

Monday, May 16, 2022

Former SR Board Member Dr. Robert E. Larson

With sadness we note the passing of Dr. Robert E. Larson, a former member of the Board of Directors of Software Research (SR), on 10 March 2022.

Dr. Larson was CEO of Systems Control, Inc., Palo Alto, CA. He was involved with the IEEE in the analysis of the failure of the Three Mile Island nuclear reactor.

He invited Dr. Miller, SR's CEO, to speak about software verification and validation technology at the IEEE/NRC Working Conference on Advanced Electrotechnology Applications to Nuclear Power Plants, Washington, DC, January 1980.

Dr. Larson was invited to be a member of the Board of Directors of SR in April 1997. He served on the Board from 1997 through 2002.

Dr. Larson was a highly respected technologist and he made significant contributions to SR. 

In particular, he helped steer its product software development effort focus toward automated web testing, an effort that led eventually to the creation of the successful eValid product.