testing Javascript applications ?

2005-11-28 Thread Mark Stosberg
It used to be that WWW::Mechanize was a good enough testing tool for my web applications. It doesn't do Javascript, but I used very minimal Javascript and thus worked around that limitation. Along comes AJAX. It offers benefits that make JavaScript seem worth using. But now how I can test

Re: testing Javascript applications ?

2005-11-28 Thread Yuval Kogman
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 20:25:48 +, Mark Stosberg wrote: But now how I can test the application? I have a link that uses AJAX to pull in some content that gets displayed in a new layer, including a form I'd like to submit.

Re: testing Javascript applications ?

2005-11-28 Thread Luke Closs
On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 08:25:48PM +, Mark Stosberg wrote: It used to be that WWW::Mechanize was a good enough testing tool for my web applications. It doesn't do Javascript, but I used very minimal Javascript and thus worked around that limitation. Along comes AJAX. It offers

Re: testing Javascript applications ?

2005-11-28 Thread Ovid
--- Mark Stosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are other folks doing to test web applications that make heavy use of JavaScript? If you want to leverage your Perl testing knowledge, you can check out Test.Simple from JSAN: http://openjsan.org/doc/t/th/theory/Test/Simple/0.21/index.html

Re: testing Javascript applications ?

2005-11-28 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2005-11-28, Ovid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Mark Stosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are other folks doing to test web applications that make heavy use of JavaScript? If you want to leverage your Perl testing knowledge, you can check out Test.Simple from JSAN:

Re: automated web testing with selenium

2005-11-28 Thread Mark Stosberg
On 2005-11-02, Luke Closs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, yesterday Test::WWW::Selenium was uploaded to CPAN, so Selenium can now be driven by perl! Test::WWW::Selenium seems interesting, but I could use an example it would be useful to use, versus the standard techniques. From the docs,

Re: testing Javascript applications ?

2005-11-28 Thread Ovid
--- Mark Stosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://openjsan.org/doc/t/th/theory/Test/Simple/0.21/index.html I've been using it and once you get it set up, it's fairly straight forward. You can see a sample in my journal: http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/27229 Interesting. And is