Unittesting for web applications

2005-02-12 Thread Sandip Bhattacharya
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 *

Re: Unittesting for web applications

2005-02-12 Thread John Roth
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

Re: Unittesting for web applications

2005-02-12 Thread Grig Gheorghiu
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

Re: Unittesting for web applications

2005-02-12 Thread richard
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 --