Re: AJAX Testing

Hi Steve:

Selenium is good for record/playback of functional tests where  
playback is through a browser (Firefox, Chrome, etc.) The Selenium  
architecture works well for many tests but it does have its drawbacks.  
Selenium can be really slow at test play-back. Selenium uses a frames- 
based JavaScript plug-in architecture that does not handle browser  
originated events - such as dealing with modal Security dialog boxes.  
Selenium doesn't have a call-back architecture to make it easy for  
your tests to deal with Ajax-style asynchronous events. Lastly,  
Selenium does not have a solution for repurposing tests as load tests  
and business service monitors.

PushToTest built a Selenium-HTMLUnit hybrid solution called  
SeleniumHTMLUnit. It reads Selenium tests in their native format and  
runs them using the HTMLUnit browser. The runner is data-enabled, so  
your Selenium tests use operational test data from CSV files, RDBMS  
databases, and other objects. And the runner operates the tests as  
functional tests, load and performance tests, and business service  
monitors without having to change the original Selenium test.

SeleniumHTMLUnit is part of TestMaker, an open source test automation  
platform. A tutorial on how this work is at http://www.pushtotest.com.  
(The site is down this weekend for maintenance.)

-Frank





On May 1, 2009, at 5:20 AM, Stephen Cresswell wrote:

> Any reason for not using an alternative tool like Selenium? www.openqa.org
>
> I use http for testing the headers are correct etc, but not for  
> checking javascript.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
> 2009/4/30 Shay Thompson <[email protected]>
>
> Hi, I’m trying to use HttpUnit to test an html page with ajax code  
> in it but I’m unable to create an XmlHttpRequest object of any  
> type.  Has anyone gotten this to work?  If so, could you provide a  
> snippet of your javascript and java?
>
>
> FYI, I’ve tried this with HttpUnit 1.6 and 1.7 with no luck.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shay
>
>
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