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Check email in a test

Many flows send an email that the test needs to read, such as a confirmation or verification message. A disposable public inbox service makes this possible. Mailinator, Guerrilla Mail and InboxBear all let you create random, unique addresses.

Set up the test

Section titled “Set up the test”

  1. Create a unique address. Choose a string in the Mailinator web interface. This is a one-time setup, and you reuse the address in later runs.

  2. Record the flow that sends the email, using the new address.

  3. Open the inbox in a new tab. In this URL, replace test with your address string:

    https://www.mailinator.com/v4/public/inboxes.jsp?to=test

  4. Resume the recorder. CloudQA pauses when you switch to a new tab, so select Resume.

  5. Check the email. Open the message, validate its content or select the link in it, then save the test case.

  6. Add a Goto URL step. Open Edit steps for the saved test and add a Goto URL step with the inbox URL, so the test opens the inbox on every run.

  7. Optional: select the link in the email. If the message body is inside an HTML iframe, delete the recorded click, add a click step, and enter the element’s CSS path from the Elements pane. For an iframe, the selector looks like this:

    iframe~~TagName[attributename^='partial attribute value']

  8. Save and run the test.

A CSS path for an element inside an email iframe

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