Content Checking

The Content Checking feature is a simple but very powerful tool. Its purpose is to look for the presence or absence of particular text strings in a web page.

One use for this test is for verifying that server side scripts are functioning correctly. Most server side scripts return some form of text in their response. For example, a database look-up might return the price of some goods. This test will check that the response returned the expected information. If it didn't then an event is generated, and an alert can be dispatched.

When configuring the Content Checking test, you are asked to enter either a simple text string or a regular expression. A regular expression is an industry-standard way of expressing complex text search patterns. For example, you can use regular expressions to check whether every line ends with a particular word, or that every line is in the form £x.xx, where x represents any numerical character. If you are new to regular expressions and require complex text searches, don't worry. We have a team of qualified consultants ready to assist.

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