In transaction monitors , a script is executed during which the monitor will interact with elements on your page, such as drop-down menus, text boxes, or submit buttons. The monitor locates such elements on the page using a CSS or XPath selector .
In certain situations, you may need to select a random element on the page. For example, a click on one of several “Add to cart” buttons on a product overview page, to randomize which product actually gets added to the cart.
To this end, we now support the use of an
automatic variable
, which can be used to generate a random integer between two given values, and so select a random element on the page. As an example, the XPath statement (//a[@id='exampleLink'])[{{@RandomInt(1,5)}}] will select one of the first 5 links on the page with ID exampleLink.