If your test environment is protected by HTTP basic auth, you can configure your tests to send those credentials at the HTTP layer with all requests to your test site during execution. This article explains how to work with basic auth credentials in mabl tests:
Add basic auth credentials to mabl
To use basic auth credentials in a test run, create a new set of mabl credentials on the credentials page of the mabl app: Configuration > Credentials. Click on the + New credentials button and add the credential name, description (optional), username, and password. Then save the credentials.
Apply basic auth credentials to tests
When training, you will need to manually enter the basic authentication credentials. For test execution, however, you can configure mabl to automatically send the assigned basic auth credentials with every request to your test site.
Basic auth credentials may be applied within plan runs and ad hoc test runs.
Plan runs
You can configure basic auth credentials either as a default for the entire plan run or as a test-specific override.
To set basic auth credentials at the plan level, edit the plan and scroll to the Browser device settings section. Click on Additional settings and toggle on “HTTP basic auth required”. Select your credentials from the dropdown and save your settings.
To assign basic auth credentials for an individual test within a plan run, update its test variables on the plan settings page. If you are on the Edit plan page, you’ll first need to click on the Show tests button to access individual tests.
In the Test variables panel, click on + Add parameter and set the Type field to “Basic HTTP Auth” and select your credentials from the dropdown.
Ad hoc test runs
Basic auth is also supported for ad hoc test runs both locally and in the cloud. Follow these steps to configure basic auth for ad hoc runs. On the test details page, click on the Run test button. In the ad hoc run panel, select the appropriate credentials from the “HTTP basic auth credentials” dropdown.
