Automated GUI testing with JS and AJAX

[Maxim Veksler]

Hello,

Some pointers, nothing concrete.


Tools that might assist:
http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/
http://seleniumhq.org/
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Rhino

Maxim.

2009/9/4 Lev Olshvang <lolshva at 012.net.il>
>
> Just my 2 cents:
>
> I think that combination of iMacros +GreaseMonkey plugins can be used for regression tests,
> perhaps the  iMacros alone  is just sufficient for your purposes.
>
> Danny Lieberman wrote:
>
> Leonid,
>
> I'm pretty sure there are two possible non-DIY alternatives
> 1)  maybe  ratproxy - it's pretty cool for webapp software security assessment and it might cover some of your test use cases....
>
> 2) probably Mochitest - https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mochitest
>
> Just a thought.
>
> Danny
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Leonid Podolny <leonidp.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, all,
> At my work we encountered a problem and it looks like we are
> re-inventing the bicycle. Someone here surely has an experience with
> that.
> We have a regressions testing lab. As a part of the testing we have to
> work with the web-interface of our product. (I'm intentionally vague,
> the details are quite irrelevant to the problem). The testing scenario
> includes action items like "press the button with caption 'Advanced
> Settings' on it".
> This is implemented as a C program with sockets interface, so "find a
> button" actually means "look for a substring in the received HTML
> code" and "press the button" means "create an HTTP POST message and
> send it".
> However, recently we have added some JavaScript and AJAX to the
> web-interface and now the testing environment must be able to run JS
> and even cope with things like replacing part of the DOM tree. We can
> see three possible directions to tackle the problem:
> - Further fix our great testing program. After all, we know what AJAX
> can return -- we can manually open the connection it would open, parse
> the response, etc. Looks ugly and has a potential to turn into
> maintenance nightmare.
> - Setup a headless X server with Firefox running inside and some sort
> of scripting/management add-on. If someone has an experience with such
> a setup, I would appreciate pointers to specific add-ons you used.
> - Somehow hack off the GUI from any open-source browser and link it to
> our program, i.e. use it as HTML parser and JS machine. Looks
> unpredictably complicated, maybe not even feasible.
>
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