Automated interaction with a an AJAX UI

Hi all,

One of our vendors provides an ASP service that uses an AJAXian UI.
However, many of the operations we commonly perform are repetitive and
are ripe for automation. I've developed a prototype automation tool
that uses Perl's WWW::Mechanize to simulate transactions. The problem
is WWW::Mechanize doesn't support javascript so I've ended up writing
all sorts of code the greps thru these HTML pages for window.open()
calls and pulls out URLs to call.

Obviously, this technique is limited and very brittle. I'd prefer to
have a system the deals with this type of UI with less code on our
part. Does anyone have experience with automation of these types of
systems? What tool sets do you use?

Thanks,

Mark

re: Automated interaction with a an AJAX UI

On 25 Apr 2006 08:52:39 -0700, "maui" <mmmaui@gmail.com> wrote:
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>Obviously, this technique is limited and very brittle. I'd prefer to
>have a system the deals with this type of UI with less code on our
>part. Does anyone have experience with automation of these types of
>systems? What tool sets do you use?[/color]

browsers, I generally automate Internet Explorer.

Jim.

re: Automated interaction with a an AJAX UI

Hi Jim,

How do you do that? Are you using ie COM objects or some other tool?

Thanks,

Mark

re: Automated interaction with a an AJAX UI

On 25 Apr 2006 09:02:15 -0700, "maui" <mmmaui@gmail.com> wrote:
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>How do you do that? Are you using ie COM objects or some other tool?[/color]

I generally build it around Zeepe, www.zeepe.com

Jim.