The first time I used this HTTP watch tool was about 6-7 years back. Everything seemed ok in the application that our team had tested. The application was good to go live and we were fairly confident about the success of it, except for its performance. We didn't want too much of testing effort to be put on load testing as we were running short of time and resources. All we wanted was to know how soon the web page loads for the frequently used pages in the application. So a quick Google search, and we landed upon this tool. I had my own apprehensions about using the tool as I was not sure if that was the right one for our use. I decided to try it out and installed it. There are two versions. HTTP watch Basic and HTTP watch professional. I installed the basic version.
Now what is this HTTP watch? For beginners like me in simple terms, it helps one understand how the webpage loads, provides details on various parameters like the elapsed time, response time, the cookies, the HTTP information to monitor etc. For example, a user visits a site, the page load time is really long and the user is annoyed, leaves the page. This is where the HTTP watch helps the dev and QA. It helps one to know how much time it actually takes for the page to load, gives the exact time and the details of all parameters, which helps in easy debugging.
The extension integrates with most frequently used browsers like FF and IE and provides info on Cookies, query strings, HTTP/HTTPS traffic updates etc.
Now what is this HTTP watch? For beginners like me in simple terms, it helps one understand how the webpage loads, provides details on various parameters like the elapsed time, response time, the cookies, the HTTP information to monitor etc. For example, a user visits a site, the page load time is really long and the user is annoyed, leaves the page. This is where the HTTP watch helps the dev and QA. It helps one to know how much time it actually takes for the page to load, gives the exact time and the details of all parameters, which helps in easy debugging.
The extension integrates with most frequently used browsers like FF and IE and provides info on Cookies, query strings, HTTP/HTTPS traffic updates etc.
Here for example, take the site www.google.com, you want to know the response time of the page.
Step 1: Complete the Installation of the plugin.
Step 2: In FF, you see the extension under the Tools Menu and for IE, do a right click and you see the extension.
Step 3: Enable the extension and you see the pane.
Step 4: Now click on Record button, and type the URL , in this case www.google.com
Step 5: This is what you see in the HTTP pane.
Step 6: You get to see details as shown in the pic above.
This is a a simple tool doing simple things, and I have been using this tool for many of my projects.
Step 5: This is what you see in the HTTP pane.
Step 6: You get to see details as shown in the pic above.
This is a a simple tool doing simple things, and I have been using this tool for many of my projects.
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