Techniques for determining a web browser state during web page testing

A method of determining a browser state during a web page test, comprising:

• providing, from a test automation tool executing on a client, a first input to a web page provided via a browser executing on the client, wherein the first input is derived from a first line of test code for the web page test;
• detecting, with a network monitoring tool executing on the client, outgoing traffic from the browser associated with the first input;
• detecting, with the network monitoring tool, incoming traffic to the browser associated with a response to the first input;
• providing an indication from the network monitoring tool to the test automation tool when the incoming traffic is detected by the network monitoring tool, wherein the indication functions as an indicator of a browser ready state;
• and
• providing, from the test automation tool, a second input to the web page in response to the indication, wherein the outgoing and incoming traffic correspond to XMLHttpRequest objects and the test automation tool is a graphical user interface test automation tool, and wherein the second input is derived from a second line of the test code;
• wherein the outgoing and incoming traffic are between the client and local extensible markup file.