Automated Web Test

Talking of Cookie Poisoning, LiveHTTPHeaders is an extension to Firefox that reads the header files of browsed pages. It records the type of server, any session cookies and other cookies that are sent by the server. Visit their site to learn more.

Interesting read on the concept of Cookie Poisoning, which is making the server return stuff that was not intended by that cookie. Hence a Security Breach!

Winrunner Notes

1. getenv(“M_ROOT”);  – Gets the value of “M_ROOT” variable in the wrun.ini file. M_ROOT gives the path of the WinRunner installation on the system.
2. “treturn” statement returns the control to the calling test. Eg: In the burger application the individual tests call the “load_aut” test which loads the application or initializes the application that already is open and returns the control to the calling test.
3. report_msg ( message ); ( message     A valid string expression. The report_msg function inserts a message or expression into the test report.
4. # Check that the Order-Entry Box cannot be minimized separately from the main Burger window.

if (win_check_attr (”Order-Entry Box”, “minimizable”, FALSE) != E_OK)
     report_msg (rep_can_be_minimized);

1. sprintf ( format, exp1, exp2,…expn ); ( returns a formatted string to a variable.

Format :May include both a literal string to be printed and formatting specifications.
exp     :The expressions to format.

The sprintf function returns a formatted string to a variable. However, the formatted string output is not printed but is returned to a variable.

March 31, 2006