Monitoring stories

If you've worked with Alyvix for a few years, perhaps you've noticed every so often that your test cases stop working for no apparent reason. If the underlying problem isn't an actual system fault (congratulations, your monitoring is working as intended!) then the cause is almost always a change in the interface that you're monitoring.

While some large "breaking" changes will obviously require you to create a new Alyvix test case, more often it's just a minor change, for instance Alyvix can't find a button that's been moved due to a software update, or a multi-user system has persistent window properties. In this best practices blog, I'll show you how you can build more robust test cases so that these minor interface changes won't interrupt your monitoring and keep you from rebuilding your test cases.