Create a scan using sitemap

Access the scanner

Open the Website Scanner and click Create a new scan to get started.

You can also access the Website Scanner from both Percy and Accessibility Testing.

• From Percy, click Visual scanner > New scan.
• From Accessibility Testing homepage, click Website Scanner > New scan. You are redirected to Website Scanner.

Ensure that you have selected scanners as per your requirement.

Click the Sitemap tab.

• In the Enter domain URL or sitemap.xml URL text field, enter the URL or sitemap.xml URL (see annotation 1) and click Add sitemap.
• You can also upload a xml file (see annotation 2).

• By default, the system assigns a generic title, click Scan Name and enter a unique, descriptive identifier (see annotation 3).
• Click the settings icon (see annotation 4) to schedule the scan and modify configurations.
• Enable Enable recurring scans, and enter the recurrence details.
  For more information, see how to schedule scan. To scan a page that requires a user authentication, add Test pages behind login in Scan Settings.
• Click the schedule text link to modify the execution frequency (see annotation 5).

You can see a list of pages corresponding to the domain. Select the pages that you need to scan.

• Click Create Scan.

For visual testing, if you wish to examine changes in staging against production, you can use the Compare with alternate environment feature. For more information, see Compare Visual Changes against Alternate Environment.