Email Delivery Time Monitoring

[f.micali]

I hope all is running well. I'm writing you because I need your suggest
about a question: Is possible to monitor the e-mail time delivery with e-Valid?

The scenario is:

(1) A first user write a new message with his webmail;

(2) This first user sends the new e-mail to an e-mail address of the second user;

(3) The second user receive the e-mail.

Could I monitor, with e-Valid, the time between the first user's send
and the second one's receive?

How could I?

The scenario could be change in this manner:

The first user is the same as the second one. The first user send
by him-self an e-mail.

How long is the time between send and receive e-mail?

Thanks
Francesco

[eValid]

The basic sequence you have outlined ought to be no problem. It's good!

We're assuming that you want to measure the end-user performance of a web-based email system. Let us know if you mean to test a non-web-based system, which also is possible, but would be using Application Mode rather than Browser Mode.

There's a worked example that illustrates how DOM-processing commands process a Gmail account.

Here is an example of AJAX usage that shows how eValid's IndexMotion commands are used to test the Google Gmail application (which is notoriously difficult to test):

http://www.e-valid.com/Products/Documen ... ple02.html

Probably the only thing you need to do is add some ResetTimer and ElapsedTime commands to the script.

* Here is how to use the eValid internal timer facility to measure how long one or a set of commands takes, as described here:

http://www.e-Valid.com/Products/Documen ... tml#timing

* These commands are available from the eValid GUI as described here:

http://www.e-Valid.com/Products/Documen ... html#timer

Or, you could use the SaveRecord command to create local file with detailed timing data:

* Here are the detailed instructions for use of the SaveRecord command, which outputs in-progress test data to an external file:

http://www.e-Valid.com/Products/Documen ... ecord.html

Let us know if this helps out!

[f.micali]

Thank you for your answer, I'm going to try and I will give yo news in the next few days.

Best regards,

F.