Overview
Advanced browser settings in Thunders allow you to alter the behavior of the browser during the test execution. This guide will take you through the different advanced browser settings, their impact and how to use them.
How to access the advance settings
Go to an existing test case
Find the button with cogs icon next to browser settings
Click on the advanced settings button
Scroll to see and change the advanced settings
HTTPS certificate
HTTP Certificate setting is used to allows browser to bypass SSL/TLS certificate error
Browser dark mode
Browser dark mode setting is used to enable the dark theme in the browser
Stealth mode
Stealth mode setting is used to avoid bot/robot detection mechanisms
JavaScript
JavaScript setting either enables or disable the JavaScript execution in the tested website during the test execution, for certain steps having JavaScript enabled is required and thus it is enabled by default.
Element Highlighting
Element Highlighting setting is used to indicate the interacted with element with red rectangle or red dot
Display and appearance settings
Device scale factor
Device Scale Factor is used to define ratio between physical pixels and user interface pixels on a device's screen. You can consider it as pixel density, the higher it is the better the quality and slower the performance and vice-versa.
Example: Using 0.4 as value for device scale factor
Forced colors
Forced color setting is used to enforce user-chosen limited color palette on the page, an example of forced colors is Windows High Contrast mode. Using this setting will change the color scheme of the tested website.
We support two values for Forced colors settings
None: No color palette is enforced
Active: High contract mode is enforced
Example: Showing website with forced colors
Locale
Locale settings emulates the user locale, its value should respect the BCP-47 language code. An example would be: en-US, fr-FR, es-ES, nl-BE etc. Changing this value may lead to displaying the targeted website in the chosen language (although that depends on whether the website support multiple language or not).
Security and network
The security and network settings relate to HTTP credentials, that get used for authenticating to the targeted website during the test execution.
Example: Using HTTP credentials
The HTTP credentials works only if the targeted website support it.
The HTTP credentials are not encrypted across network, therefore ensure you are using sure HTTP credentials with website through a HTTPS connection.
HTTP Headers
We can enrich the used headers during the test execution by adding custom ones.
Custom headers
Using the custom headers we can expand the list of sent headers to include custom ones.
Tips for Effective advanced browser settings combination
Keep the JavaScript setting active unless the test case require otherwise
Combine Device scale factor and Forced colors settings to change the color palette used in user interface