Comments for Testing in the Web Environment

[phinjensen]

Comments for https://www.endpointdev.com/blog/2009/02/testing-in-web-environment/
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[phinjensen]

original author: Ethan Rowe
date: 2009-02-13T19:59:00-05:00

For JavaScript-focused testing, I've used a Javascript testing module similar in design to Perl's Test::More, provided by the OpenJSAN project. The project home page seems rather stale, but the testing module works for simple stuff. For Ajax-oriented tested, it's tricky to manage the concurrency issues.

http://openjsan.org/doc/t/th/theory/Test/Simple/0.21/index.html

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[phinjensen]

original author: Nath
date: 2009-02-13T23:32:00-05:00

Very informative article. Much of what is discussed is framework/tool support for Test Execution automation. By far test design (like reducing the test combinations for example) and test data creation, the tool support is less. We are working on a free online tool called http://www.TestersDesk.com that addresses these needs. TestersDesk has a big roadmap and a lot of new tools are under development. Also, next week we are releasing a interface rich build (which will also be the first official release moving out of beta).

[phinjensen]

original author: Kevin
date: 2010-01-03T17:14:43-05:00

"The drawback of Selenium is that since it must be run in an environment that includes a browser and window display system, you'll almost certainly need to run your test script on a workstation, or a server with all the windowing software installed."

I don't consider this a drawback. I want Firefox to participate in my tests. I want to be able to switch between displayed Selenium RC and "headless Selenium RC" (w/ Xvfb). At times I like to record using xv and xwd, and playback using convert and jpegs. But I'll confess that I've only just begun to get the playback part to hang together in my sandbox. I would have been further along w/ Perl, but, I chose to use Haskell along with Selenium RC.