Mabl credentials

Mabl credentials are a special type of variable in mabl. The values of mabl credentials are encrypted with a customer-specific encryption key before getting added to our database.

This guide outlines how to create mabl credentials and use them in browser tests.

Creating mabl credentials

You can add mabl credentials by clicking on Configuration in the left-hand navigation and selecting the Credentials tab. Only owners and editors of a workspace can create mabl credentials.

You can create two types of credentials:

• Basic: username and password
• Basic with MFA: username, password, and MFA authenticator secret code

After creating credentials, you cannot change the credential type.

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Editing basic with MFA credentials

You can update and clear the secret code for basic with MFA credentials, but you cannot retrieve an existing secret code.

Assigning mabl credentials

Tests

You can assign when creating a new browser test. The credentials appear as a dropdown in the Show advanced options section.

Plans

You can also assign credentials at the plan level:

• Toggle on "Login credentials required."
• Select the credentials from the dropdown.

Credentials set at the plan level override credentials set at the test level.

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Note

You may only assign one set of mabl credentials to a plan. All tests that use mabl credentials in a plan run - app.defaults.username and app.defaults.password - use the same set of credentials.

Training with mabl credentials

New browser tests

If a new browser test is part of an existing plan, make sure credentials are assigned at the plan level.

If the new browser test is part of a new plan or no plan, select credentials in the Show advanced options section.

Existing tests

When training an existing browser test, you can configure the training session to use a specific set of credentials in the Edit test configuration modal.

Running tests with mabl credentials

Plan runs

If the test is run as part of a plan, the test uses the credentials assigned to the plan. If a different set of credentials is assigned to the test, they are overridden by the credential values set at the plan level.

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Note

Mabl credentials are not environment-specific. If an app login requires different credentials in different environments, use environment variables to log into your app.

Ad-hoc runs

When a test is run ad hoc, you can select a set of credentials in the Ad hoc cloud run panel before triggering the test run.

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Ad hoc runs do not use credentials associated with a test

In order to run a test ad hoc with a set of mabl credentials, you need to add credentials in the Ad hoc cloud run panel every time you trigger a test run.

Reviewing test runs with mabl credentials

To identify which set of credentials were used in a test run, you can click on the setup step - mabl test run setup click to view logs. If credentials were passed to the test, they appear in the logs of this step.

In the following screenshot, the Test Output page shows that the "admin" credentials were used in this test run.