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Web testing frameworks
by Jonathan Bell on 2008-08-13 02:39 PM read 379 times |
We've been looking into using Selenium as our web testing framework. However, there is another popular open source tool to do this as well, Canoo WebTest.
This blog post shows an excellent comparison between the two tools. It favors WebTest due to some of its greater feature set. This post however favors Selenium due to the ease of use.
The conclusions seem to be that Selenium has a better tool for quickly capturing tests, but WebTest has more features and integrates better into a cruise control system. Also interesting is that you can manually script features for both in xml. However, for Selenium you can also use ruby scripts, and in WebTest you can use groovy instead. I always like having options, but the strenghts of WebTest probably aren't as important to us as the browser tool for quickly generating tests in Selenium.
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 a reply to Web testing frameworksby Jonathan Bell on 2008-08-13 02:47 PM read 28 times |
One thing I just noticed with WebTest is that it also has a test recorder as well.
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a reply to Web testing frameworks by Akif on 2008-08-13 03:17 PM read 27 times |
Its interesting that a couple of those posts mention Canoo WebTest as being better for scalability but it looks like selenium does have pretty comprehensive support for scalability as mentioned here. It combines selenium remote control and selenium grid to achieve this.
Also Selenium tests run in an actual browser and thus simulate exactly how a user would be running these tests whereas Canoo uses HttpUnit to simulate the tests without ever using a browser.
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a reply to Web testing frameworks by Brittain on 2008-08-13 06:20 PM read 48 times |
Nice research.
Have you rolled Maarten into this discussion? If possible, we'd like the consistency between tools on both sides of the QE fence.
Thanks.
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