Thanks for the reference Klaus, it certainly looks promising. No point
re-inventing the wheel. Will check out Selenium right away.
Benjamin, I would certainly like to keep the option of developing it open.
And I think what we need could be started quite simply, because jquery gives
us most of the required methods. But I'll look into Selenium first. Will
report my findings later.
On 12/6/06, Klaus Hartl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ashutosh bijoor schrieb:
> Hi
> With the emergence of web based application services (wont call it
> web2.0) and the prevalent iterative development methodology, there is a
> need for a reliable automated client-side web application testing
> framework. I think jQuery is an ideal tool to help create such a
framework.
>
> Here is how I'd like it to work:
>
> 1. Basically one can create a test setup where we load a site /
> application in an iframe. iframe will completely isolate the test bed
> from the site, but one could also create the test framework as a plugin
> that could be loaded within the site.
> 2. The site will be presumed to already have jquery loaded (else one can
> probably load it??)
> 3. Then one can create a test script that runs on the site in the iframe
> like so:
>
> goto({url:"http://..."}); // loads url in iframe
> click({element:'#link1'}); // invoke click event for specified element
> wait_till_loaded({element:'#div1',timeout:3000}); // wait until the DOM
> element with specified id is loaded in iframe, or timeout 3000 msec
> fill_form({form:'#formid',field1:value1,field2:value2...}); // fill in
> form values using deserialize plugin
> submit_form({form:'#formid'}); // submit the form
> wait_till_loaded({element:'#div2',timeout:3000}); // wait until DOM
> element with specified id is loaded in iframe, or timeout 3000 msec
> ....
> and so on.
>
> One could probably use something like the taconite or jXs
> (http://www.brainknot.com/code/jxs.htm) xml syntax instead of the
> javascript syntax above, but I'd prefer to keep if javascript to keep
> the flexibility of creating more complex test scripts.
>
> One could also use a system like above to create self-running demos!
>
> Does anyone know of such a framework that already exists somewhere?
Ashutosh, I think Selenium is pretty much what you want:
http://www.openqa.org/selenium/
It uses iframes to embed a test environment, it has a Firefox extension,
it integrates with Rails, ...
I'm new to it too, but we are going to integrate it for Plazes.
Cheers, Klaus
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