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I would not need much of additional resources. I need only one thing: questioners should share their target HTML.

In this forum, most of questions were posted without disclosing the target URL in question; therefore we (volunteers as answerers) need to guess how the target HTML looks like, how it works. Questions about hidden targets are always difficult to solve.

There would be several reasons why the questioners make questions without disclosing their targets. I suppose.

  1. The target URL is on their private network, not accessible from the Internet. And the URL is often password protected, therefore unable to allow access for 3rd party.

  2. The target is too obvious to themselves. They do not realise that it is necessary to disclose & explain the target HTML to others.

  3. Testing beginners do not like looking at HTML code.

Katalon’s “Spy” and “Recorder” tools excuse for not paying attention to HTML. If the tools are perfect and always meet the requirements, they do not need to be skilled about HTML. But in fact, they encounter difficulties about the Test Objects generated by these tools. They don’t understand what is written in a test object and how it works against HTML which they haven’t looked at. In order to help them, we need to look into the HTML, but …

  1. Questioners tend to have a narrow view over their problem. They tend to ask a question quoting a single line of message out of the StackTrace and ask what they should do. God only knows.

  2. They have to keep the target HTML private because they must not expose the name of their employer to public, or due to some copyright reasons.

  3. Even when the questioners are open-minded and willing to share the HTML source in question, they do not know how to share it in this forum.

I have ever tried Saving Web Page as MHTML in Katalon Studio to improve the way how we exchange information about the target HTML. Unfortunately my attempt was not very successful. Curious to know why? See the following post

Katalon Studio already uses MHTML to some extent. But, I am afraid, Katalon failed to use MHTML effectively.

However, things should be improved. I hope you, @sara.leslie, to improve this situation.

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