Autofill Out Webforms

Darr2cool78 · 9 Sep 2011 at 12:53

Im a student on placement year for my computer science degree. In my job I do a lot of testing on websites to check if forms and PDFs generated are capturing the data entered. This involves going through about 8 pages with some 50 fields each time and entering "TEST" in each field.

I was wondering if there is a simple way to write a program (maybe batch file or something) that would run through the webpage and insert the word "test" in each field automatically.

Thanks

mistercrabb · 9 Sep 2011 at 13:10

You could use autohotkey andd make a macro that types "TEST" and then the tab key.
Then just tap your hotkey until you reach the bottom of the form.

[RB] · 9 Sep 2011 at 13:19

Don't know if it's completely what you're after but I've just recently started using Autofill forms Add-on for Firefox.

You can delete all the standard autofill form fields and add custom ones.

RobH · 11 Sep 2011 at 01:22

The way I would do it (as a programmer) is to write a bookmarklet that includes jQuery and then use it to select and populate all the fields on the page, you could even append a number to the word "TEST" so that each field has a unique number. This would then just be a case of clicking a bookmark link in the browser to fill in all the fields.

It depends on how you identify the fields (are they all text boxes?)

peterwalkley · 12 Sep 2011 at 08:03

Sounds like you need an automated test tool - google around, this is standard stuff.

At work my testers generally use Quicktest Pro, but Selenium would be a sensible free alternative.

THT · 12 Sep 2011 at 13:58

i used to use something called RoboForm