I recommend using the "driven"/"scripted" mode of Selenium, in
particular the Twisted Server implementation. Details at
<http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/03/web-app-testing-with-python-part-2.html>
Grig
--- Stephan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to "mis"-use Selenium components as a simple
> cross-platform,
> cross-browser blackbox to control aspects of the browser.
>
> Okay here the full scoop. In Zope 3 we recently developed the
> `zope.testbrowser` package, which allows us to write functional tests
> using a
> Python class that simulates being a browser. Here a small example:
>
> >>> from zope.testbrowser import Browser
> >>> browser = Browser()
> >>> browser.addHeader('Authorization', 'Basic mgr:mgrpw')
> >>> browser.addHeader('Accept-Language', 'en-US')
> >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html')
> >>> browser.url
> 'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html'
>
> >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
> >>> link = browser.getLink('Link Text')
> >>> link
> <Link text='Link Text'
>
>
url='http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text'>
> >>> link.text
> 'Link Text'
> >>> link.url # it's normalized
>
> 'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text'
> >>> link.attrs
> {'href': 'navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text'}
> >>> link.click()
> >>> browser.url
>
> 'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text'
>
> And this works great and I am very happy with it. However, now I
> would like to
> develop another backend to the `Browser` class that actually opens a
> browser
> of my choice and executes the `Browser` classes commands in the
> actual
> Browser.
>
> Clearly there are several ways to realize this, including DCOP (KDE
> only),
> PyXPCOM (Mozilla-only) and JSSh (Mozilla-only). However, all of those
>
> solutions have shortcomings, since they are platform and browser
> specific.
> Since the Zope community has embraced Selenium and several people
> told me to
> look at selenium as another possibility, I really want to make all of
> this
> work using Selenium. I have downloaded the SVN version and tried to
> read some
> of the Javascript, but I am really lost.
>
> I am looking for some hints, guidance, links or whatever to get this
> started.
>
> Thanks for your help in advance!
>
> Regards,
> Stephan
> --
> Stephan Richter
> CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
> Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training
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