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With StatusCake you can use a variety of methods to test basic “transactions”, including forms that deal with login, data protection, and others.
First of all, you should assess which tools you need to use, and where the testing should be targeted. If you are dealing with a HTML based login form you should submit Form POST data, and your target should be the URL of that form rather than the main page URL.
If it’s a basic authentication job then your URL target should be that of the main page, and you should use the basic auth fields on the test on our end to gain access:
For other types of HTML form, which could be for a wide range of uses, you just need to grab the field submission names from the source code, these can again be entered in the Form POST field invalid JSON format with your desired values. This way you can use the feature to test pretty much any type of entry form.
Validating the Results
Once your form or login dialogue is being actioned, it’s time to set up validation of the process, this can be done in two ways.
String Match – Using the String Match field on the test you can confirm the presence of one or more strings in the source of the resulting page after whichever process has been carried out. You can be alerted optionally if these strings are found/not found.
Final Location – With this, you can verify that the final URL in the process is an expected URL, for example, if you are expecting http://mysite.com/allgood.php , but the URL reached is http://mysite.com/notgreat.php – you will receive an alert for the test.
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