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 <lols...@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.li...@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. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > > -- > Danny Lieberman > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.dannylieberman.info > Twitter: http://twitter.com/onlyjazz > Skype: dannyl50 > Warsaw:+48-79-609-5964 > Israel: +972 8 9701485 > Mobile: +972 - 54 447 1114 > > ________________________________ > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > -- Cheers, Maxim Veksler "Free as in Freedom" - Do u GNU ? _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
