Unittesting for web applications
Can someone suggest me some good resources for learning how to use unittests for web applications? Do we always have to cook up our own webpage scrapers to test the code? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya*Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com *Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Unittesting for web applications
I believe there are xUnit clones named Httpunit and Htmlunit, as well as a number of variants. See the huge list of xUnit clones on: http://www.xprogramming.com/ in the downloads section. I don't think any of them are Python based, though. You might also want to look at some of the Htmlunit integration into FIT and Fitnesse. You can frequently get discussions on the Yahoo TDD list. John Roth Sandip Bhattacharya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Can someone suggest me some good resources for learning how to use unittests for web applications? Do we always have to cook up our own webpage scrapers to test the code? - Sandip -- Sandip Bhattacharya*Puroga Technologies * [EMAIL PROTECTED] Work: http://www.puroga.com *Home/Blog: http://www.sandipb.net/blog PGP/GPG Signature: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Unittesting for web applications
There's another current thread on c.l.py talking about testing Web applications. Somenone suggested Jython in conjunction with HttpUnit, a combination that worked for me too -- but the name HttpUnit is misleading, since it does functional/black box testing and not unit testing. It beats scraping Web pages though, so it may be sufficient for what you need. You can see a mini-tutorial I wrote at http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/02/web-app-testing-with-jython-and.html I don't know any Python-specific frameworks for Web app unit testing. In the Java world, there's Cactus at http://jakarta.apache.org/cactus/. To quote from that page, Cactus is a simple test framework for unit testing server-side java code (Servlets, EJBs, Tag Libs, Filters, ...). So this is pretty much Java-centric and may not help you much. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: Unittesting for web applications
Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: Can someone suggest me some good resources for learning how to use unittests for web applications? Do we always have to cook up our own webpage scrapers to test the code? http://www.mechanicalcat.net/tech/webunit/ Richard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
