We also have high-level methods for the particular components of our application, but the development cycle is slow and we haven't achieved to finish the test cases. We have little resources, but without testing we can't get very far as any change takes longer and longer. Testing really makes a difference on that.
Thanks. Pedro El Mér, 21-12-2005 a las 12:37 -0500, Dan Adams escribió: > I looked at httpunit before it seemed to be that htmlunit is simply one > abstraction layer above that so that you can test using the DOM and not > have to deal with the low-level http stuff. i've found that with > htmlunit you can write tests very very easily be writing utility > functions on top of htmlunit to deal with your own stuff. For instance, > we have a stand form for add/edit pages so there is a bunch of useful > methods for doing things with forms and form fields. i'm not sure how > the speed compares between httpunit and htmlunit but i'm guessing that > they would be similar (if not slightly slower for htmlunit because it > has to parse the page into dom objects). but while it's certainly slower > than normal unit tests i haven't found it to be a problem yet and we > have a fairly large system which is only going to get bigger. > > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 18:08 +0100, Pedro Abelleira Seco wrote: > > I'm highly interested in this. We are using HttpUnit, and it works more > > or less ok, but it is really slow. I think that this slowleness is the > > reason we don't have 100% coverage (not even 50%). Not having a good > > test suite makes me nervous. > > > > I'l try to get 100% by the end of January, when things calm down, but > > I'd love to know if you have tried HttpUnit and why did you choose > > htmlunit. > > > > BTW, do you know about a site or forum or some other place where people > > share experiences and best practices testing database backed web > > applications? It's not a trivial problem, IMVHO. > > > > Thanks > > > > Pedro > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
