Bypass the Missing SSL Certificate Error?


During the active development of a website, the dev environment might not always have an SSL certificate. It is okay to ignore this error and bypass the issue temporarily during test execution since the application is not used in production and the application data is not relevant.


Prerequisites

  • You should be familiar with the usage of Desired Capabilities in Testsigma. For more information, refer to desired capabilities.

Applying Desired Capabilities

In this case, we can use Desired Capabilities to bypass certificate errors. Here are the few desired capabilities for the specific browsers to overcome certificate errors:

Browser Capability Name(Key) Format Value
Google Chrome acceptInsecureCerts Boolean True
Mozilla Firefox acceptuntrustedcerts Boolean True
IE and Safari capabilityType.ACCEPTSSLCERTS Boolean True

The image below shows how to add desired capabilities for the Chrome browser in a Test Plan Run in Testsigma. Bypass SSL Capability


Bypassing Manually

  1. Navigate to the SSL issue website and click on Advanced. Not Private Error
  2. Click on Proceed to < website-url > (unsafe) link Not Private Error Advanced

You will be directed to the original website.