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You can use QA Wizard Pro to test web sites or applications that contain dynamic content that changes on a regular basis. As the content changes, test scripts may fail because the application no longer matches the data stored in QA Wizard Pro. You can use XPath queries and URL format rules to configure your scripts to handle dynamic data

Download the Testing Dynamic Web Applications How To and learn how to configure your scripts to use XPath queries or URL format rules to test a web application that contains dynamic data.

Web pages often include HTML elements that are not visible to the user. The web browser doesn’t render the elements on the screen, but it often includes their data in the GET and POST requests to the web server. The classic example is an INPUT element of type “hidden” used to embed name/value pairs. But any HTML element might have important attributes that you need to verify.

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Internally, web browsers convert HTML into a tree and process this tree. The W3C calls this tree the Document Object Model (DOM). Web developers have a variety of ways to select data from this DOM tree. For example, they can use CSS Selectors or JavaScript functions like getElementById. They can also use XPath, a language designed for selecting nodes in XML documents.

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