Marc Guillemot wrote:
Hi,I've just discovered that Paul King ("our" Paul King, Webtest committer) will hold 2 tutorials about Webtest in the coming Agile Conference (Minneapolis, July 23-28) [1, 2]. (Paul, Lisa, you could have told us earlier! ;-)) Paul, can you tell a bit more about your tutorials? The conference is not yet sold out and perhaps will some subscribers of this mailing list want to go to your tutorials to get information from the source.
Thanks for the plug Marc. Yes, early-bird registration closes at the end of next week, so now is a good time to be considering the conference. There really is an incredible list of topics/speakers. As far as I know I am only giving the one tutorial - it is what they call a "long tutorial" taking up two tutorial slots, i.e. we have most of the afternoon to go through the capabilities of WebTest. The topics I am planning to go through include: • Introduction: Issues involved in testing web applications, advantages and disadvantages of various approaches • Available alternative tools: Watir, Selenium, jWebUnit/HttpUnit/HtmlUnit/Jiffie, PushToTest, Jameleon, Solex, XmlUnit (short overview) • Ant Summary: Ant for Newbies (short overview only) • WebTest Basics: configuration, structuring and grouping tests, control, reporting • Testing Page Content: text on a page, using XPath, using Regular Expressions, testing links (includes lab) • Working with Forms: checking fields, setting fields, submitting forms (includes lab) • Testing JavaScript: simple usage scenarios, enabling and disabling, emulating browser behaviour (short overview) • Using Scripting in tests: using the power of scripting within your tests (includes lab) • Advanced Topics: Testing cookies, HTTP headers, SSL, Custom Steps, Data-driven tests, Tips and Tricks (overview) • Testing non-HTML pages: XML, PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, Files, Emails, Databases (short overview) • Available Tools: Recorders, Reporting Tools (short overview) Time is quite short but I am hoping to have labs. The logistics are still being worked out but as a minimum I will "demo" the labs and people with their own laptops will be able to follow along if they wish and I think all attendees will have the canned examples that they can take home if time runs too short. The tutorial will be oriented towards examples and pragmatic advice with guidance on using WebTest within an Agile development/testing regime. If anyone does attend, be sure to say hello. Cheers, Paul. _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
