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autotester36
New Contributor
5 years ago

Navigating to test URL when company has preset home page

We run our tests against the Edge browser. My company has Edge preset to open to the company news page and we are unable to change the setting to open to a blank page as recommended in the Preparing ...
  • autotester36's avatar
    autotester36
    5 years ago

    Hi Marsha,

     

    Thank you for your reply. It's an in house application.

     

    In addition to asking the question here, I had submitted a ticket with SmartBear and they were able to provide me with a script that allows you to pass the URL as a command line argument to the browser.  This is currently working for us in legacy Edge:

     

     Browsers.Item(browserName).RunOptions = "url" 

     Browsers.Item(browserName).Run();

     

    The following is expected to work with Chromium Edge:

    Browsers.Item(browserName).RunOptions = "--homepage url"
    Browsers.Item(browserName).Run();

Marsha_R's avatar
Marsha_R
Moderator
5 years ago

Is your application only being used in-house or is it for outside customers?  If you have outside customers, I would push for being able to modify the Edge setting.  Your customers won't have the news page and you need to be able to test without it.

 

You might try that on one or two machines first and let them cycle through a Windows update just to see if it really causes a problem or not.

  • autotester36's avatar
    autotester36
    New Contributor
    5 years ago

    Hi Marsha,

     

    Thank you for your reply. It's an in house application.

     

    In addition to asking the question here, I had submitted a ticket with SmartBear and they were able to provide me with a script that allows you to pass the URL as a command line argument to the browser.  This is currently working for us in legacy Edge:

     

     Browsers.Item(browserName).RunOptions = "url" 

     Browsers.Item(browserName).Run();

     

    The following is expected to work with Chromium Edge:

    Browsers.Item(browserName).RunOptions = "--homepage url"
    Browsers.Item(browserName).Run();

  • sonya_m's avatar
    sonya_m
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    5 years ago

    This is a great idea, Marsha.

     

    Hi autotester36 ! Did you have a chance to give this approach a go? What's your result?