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A question came up on stack overflow about how to route Watir through an authenticating proxy within your script. The problem here is that you cannot auto authenticate to a proxy server using Chrome –proxy-server=my.proxy.com:3128 or using Firefox. Chrome will always prompt you for a user name and password on an authenticating proxy when it starts up [...] If you’re using an RBU or VU you may need to extract content from the previous response. For example, enumerate a link to a PDF file for subsequent download. The BrowserMob interface has a handy findRegexMatches method you can call as follows: var link = browserMob.findRegexMatches(selenium.getHtmlSource(), ‘href="(.+?pdf)"’); It takes a string input and [...] If you come from the commercial toolset mindset, you might be interested in how we achieve think time and pacing when using alternatives such as BrowserMob. Think Time Can you afford a slow landing page? Google AdWords page quality criteria are many, a prominent check being your landing page load time. A slow load time can lead to a lower quality score. Make sure you’re not wasting effort on advertising campaigns. Altentee uses BrowserMob to help check website performance for clients from multiple locations. You [...] No, not the song but my adage for 2010 in my approach to performance testing in general. Readers of my old blog 90kts.com may have noticed the recent change to altentee.com. In 2009 I helped setup a boutique testing company called Altentee Pty Ltd. Read on for a quick advertisement about this new initiative … Well the subject goes without saying. I’ve been working on WinXP again lately and when I’m not around my favourite text editor on the mac (TextMate) I opt for SCiTE on windows. The following settings I find useful for this simple but powerful text editor. YMMV. In my last post I made a tongue-in-cheek observation that load testing really doesn’t work by today’s perceived standards for web automation and testing. Part of my grievance for that was based on frustration in dealing with different load testing platforms. Not frustration born out of incompetence, more the frustration born out writing tests for increasingly [...] I was going to write why LoadRunner does not work for the web as it is today and into the foreseeable future, but decided against that because I don’t think the following points are necessarily limited to a specific toolset. Load testing does not work for web as it is today primarily because… I really like the concept of Getting Things Done. I’m also a fan of Inbox Zero. Well, at least try to be. Here’s how I implement GTD using my gmail account… Here’s an idea… Ever been in a LoadRunner contract where you’ve got a ton of scripts to write for business transactions that have many many design steps? Even worse, have you had to write those scripts against a development environment with an unstable code base and shocking performance? Sound familiar? Ever felt the frustration of re-recording [...] |
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