# Network Workbench Reference

## Recommended guidance

Use Network Workbench to understand network behavior that affects AIQ web testing, API validation, and troubleshooting. Network evidence should be reviewed alongside Scenario Editor steps, Output Logs, browser behavior, and application server logs.

## Useful review points

- Request URLs, methods, status codes, redirects, and timing.
- Authentication, authorization, session, cookie, and CSRF behavior.
- API responses that drive UI state or test assertions.
- Proxy, certificate, CORS, mixed-content, and blocked-resource issues.
- Slow endpoints or repeated calls that affect performance and stability.

## Best practices

1. Capture the smallest time window that reproduces the issue.
2. Remove or mask secrets before sharing network evidence.
3. Compare failing and passing runs to identify changed requests or responses.
4. Use findings to improve waits, assertions, service checks, or environment setup.

*Last updated: October 5, 2026*