I too have used Selenium it is great for extensive sanity tests. The hard part in the past has been that it is very dom tree dependent. I think it does a better job now of keying off of dom ids now, and if you right them manually you can make sure that your scripts key that way. My suggestion is to get the Selenium IDE plugin for Firefox. You can use it to record your tests. This can save you allot of time. As far as I know it is the best user interface automated test tool for Web/Ajax.
If I remember right SimpleTest is a Unit Test tool. So this would be used for whitebox testing as opposed to sanity,blackbox, UI centric testing. Selenium is the only free tool I know of too. UI testers like Slik Performer and the like cost too much for alot of companies like us.
Friday, April 13, 2007, 10:09:46 AM, you wrote:
> I have used this a bit in testing some of the web-apps that I've
> developed. The problem is that none of the other developers on my team
> are willing to use it, and our application changes often enough that it
> often breaks the tests and they have to be re-written.
> I use SimpleTest more often (there is a plugin for Selenium that I've
> not managed to implement successfully), even though Selenium does a much
> better job of testing "the big picture" (_javascript_ included). The
> problem is that it's so easy to break the Selenium tests
> unintentionally, and it involves quite a bit of time to write another test.
> It's a pretty powerful tool, and I highly recommend it, despite it's
> shortcomings.
> - Brian
> Morgan Craft wrote:
>> I know testing was mentioned. Has anyone played with Selenium at all?
>> http://www.openqa.org/selenium-ide/
>> Our development team is beginning to look at integrating this platform
>> into our testing. Anyone else using this at all?
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