Hello,
I am doing a comparison of various web application testing tools. WebTest
appeared to be a strong contender from the documentation, however that
turned out not to be the case in practice. I am using the Petstore 2.0
application from Sun's Blueprints as a basis for test, as this has a lot of
AJAX stuff in it. Simple assertions fail as WebTest apparently does not see
the text that is displayed via AJAX. Here is a trivial test which fails:
<project default="test">
<target name="test">
<webtest name="check that petstore categories can be found by
clicking images">
<invoke url="http://localhost:51492/petstore/faces/index.jsp";
description="Go to Petstore 2.0"/>
<verifyTitle text="Java Pet Store Reference Application" />
<clickElement
xpath="//[EMAIL PROTECTED]"browse('Dogs')"]" />
<verifyText text="Beach Dog"/>
<clickElement
xpath="//[EMAIL PROTECTED]'/petstore/images/banner_logo.gif']" description="Main
Page" />
</webtest>
</target>
</project>
It cannot find any text of the page. If I click on the failed step
(verifyText) Page link, it displays a page with almost no text.
What am I doing wrong?
In addition, XPath expressions that work in Selenium-RC or Watir fail in
WebTest. For example, on the home page for Petstore, the images on the left
which are displayed as a dojo pick list can be accessed and clicked on via
the XPath //[EMAIL PROTECTED]"/petstore/images/dogs_icon.gif"] in either Watir
or
Selenium. Also, the WebTest recorder recognizes this as a valid XPath
expression but a <verifyXPath /> fails as does any use of it in a test.
Am I missing something?
Paul Beck
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