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
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Stephan Richter
CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student)
Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training
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