Creating Web Audits Checkpoints

1. Launch the Wizard

2. Specify Checkpoint Parameters

3. Close the Wizard

The way you call the wizard depends on whether you are recoding a test or creating a test manually:

• If you are recording a test

  1. Click Add Check on the Recording toolbar.

  2. In the Checkpoint Wizard, select Web metrics, and then click Next.

     

• If you are editing a keyword test

  1. Select the Checkpoints category in the Operations panel of the Keyword Test editor.

  2. Find the Checkpoint Wizard operation in the list and drag it to your test. In the Checkpoint wizard, click Web metrics.

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     Find the Web Audits Checkpoint operation in the list and drag it to your test.

     

• If you are editing a script

  1. Open the script to be edited.

  2. Click on the Code Editor toolbar:

     

  3. In the Checkpoint Wizard, select Web metrics, and then click Next.

On the next page of the wizard, specify the web page to be verified, the needed audits and the threshold values for them. You can also specify the type of the device to be used for emulation:

To specify checkpoint parameters, do the following:

1. Enter the web page URL to be verified in the URL of the page to be checked edit box.

2. Enable required audits in the Audits to run section and specify threshold values for them:

   • Performance - The checkpoint will verify the performance of the page is being checked.

   • Accessibility - The checkpoint will verify how well the page complies with the content accessibility rules.

   • Best practices - The checkpoint will verify how well the page complies with the best practices used to improve the quality of software.

   • Search engine optimization (SEO) - The checkpoint will verify how well the page is optimized for search engine scanning.

   • Progressive web app (PWA) - The checkpoint will verify how well the page complies to best practices for Progressive web applications.

   Threshold scores for all of these audits can be specified as a number between 0 and 100.

   By default, the threshold value is 90. It indicates a well-performing web page. To learn more about threshold scores, see the the Lighthouse tool documentation.

3. Specify the type of the device you want to emulate to check the behavior of your web page on it:

   • Desktop - The web page behavior will be checked on a desktop computer.

   • Mobile - The web page behavior will be checked on an emulated mobile device (Nexus 5X will be emulated).

Click Finish to exit the Checkpoint wizard. TestComplete will add the checkpoint statement to your test.

If you are creating a checkpoint while editing a script test, TestComplete will show the Copy Text to Clipboard dialog containing the generated checkpoint code. Copy it to the Clipboard and paste it to the needed place in your script test.