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torus
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2 years ago

Web Testing - How to extract Network Responses and http status codes with TC

When conducting a UI web test (UI test of an online application), is there a way to monitor the network reposes (the returned http status codes) and ensure no 400/500 error codes (or other error code...
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AlexKaras Do you know if there's a way to do this now that Network Suite is gone?

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AlexKaras
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2 years ago

Hi,

 

No, I am not sure this can be done now in TestComplete.

While this seems to be a useful feature (but why stick to Chrome only and not to request the same functionality for all browsers that provide developer tools?) and one can create a feature request via https://community.smartbear.com/t5/forums/postpage/board-id/TestXCompleteFeatureRequests, I would say that requests monitoring is rather from integration and/or load testing areas.

A possible approach with TestComplete to monitor request results is to use some proxy (ProxyMob, Fiddler?), set your tested application to send all traffic through this proxy and then request proxy if some requests ended with 4xx or 5xx result codes.

 

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    torus
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    2 years ago

    Hi AlexKaras , thanks for the reply. You are correct. It would be nice if this functionality existed for all browsers; not just chrome. 

    The only reason I could see for not having this as a feature in TestComplete would be if monitoring the traffic status codes slowed down the tests too much. 

    I will submit a feature request; thanks for the suggestion. 

    It looks like ProxyMob might be deprecated but I'll take a look at Fiddler and see if I use this to monitor traffic for now. Thanks Marsha_R & AlexKaras  for all the suggestions!