Hi "nodje", +) WebTest uses HtmlUnit
+) the M2 Plugin basically wraps the Ant invocation into a Maven plugin to integrate it neatly into a M2 build - and it has nothing to do with TestNG/JUnit +) Canoo WebTest originally was driven by Ant scripts (including the possibility to run Groovy scripts from there) whereas the Groovy-WebTest integration was added much later. So you have three different ways to run webtests: Ant, M2, Groovy Cheers, Siegfried Goeschl nodje wrote: > Hi Siegfried > > a few questions about the plugin: > > why does it use HtmlUnit? Is the Webtest library itself based on HtmlUnit? > > I'm not sure I understand what it does. > Is it equivalent to use TestNG/JUnit to launch test? > I use groovy script, so existing test frameworks offer a very good > integration. But that's probably not possible with Ant script and that's > were the plugin is useful right? > > > > Siegfried Goeschl wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> motivated by Felipe's blog I cut a new version to be downloaded from >> http://people.apache.org/~sgoeschl/download/maven-plugins/webtest-maven-plugin/ >> >> Changes in this version include: >> >> New features: >> o Added the PDF test (./src/test/it8) as described in Felipe Gaucho's blog >> (http://weblogs.java.net/blog/felipegaucho/archive/2009/11/18/testing-pdf-files-canoo-webtest-and-maven2). >> Thanks to Felipe Gaucho. >> >> >> Changes: >> o Added more information what the integration tests are doing. >> o Upgrading to HTMLUnit 2.6 to fix a known Javascript problem. >> o Upgrading to the official Canoo WebTest 3.0 release which is now >> available via maven repository. >> The WebTest code does no longer have to be included in the plugin >> which simplifies the build and reduces the plugin size. Thanks to >> Christoph Lipp. >> >> >> Have fun! >> -webtest-maven-plugin-team >> _______________________________________________ >> WebTest mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest

