Alternatives to WebUnit

Howdy all,

In searching for tools to run automated regression tests against a Web
aplication, I found (amid a number of tools requiring non-free Java) the
WebUnit code:

<http://webunit.sourceforge.net/>

Unfortunately, the code is somewhat beta and doesn't seem to have been
updated since 02-Feb-2002. Does anyone know if this has been updated
since, or merged into some other project?

Alternatively, does anyone know a (preferably Python) tool for automated
regression testing of Web apps?

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Ben Finney <http://bignose.squidly.org/>

re: Alternatives to WebUnit

Hi,
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> Unfortunately, the code is somewhat beta and doesn't seem to have been
> updated since 02-Feb-2002. Does anyone know if this has been updated
> since, or merged into some other project?
>
> Alternatively, does anyone know a (preferably Python) tool for automated
> regression testing of Web apps?[/color]

I stumbled over http://mechanicalcat.net/tech/webunit/ and found it quite
useful. I didn't compare the two of them - so you gotta see for yourself if
its better. I also don't know if its actively developed, but to be honest:
HTTP has been around for a while, and I don't expect a webunit module to
develop rapidly :)

Regards,

Diez

re: Alternatives to WebUnit

Ben Finney <bignose-hates-spam@and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> writes:
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> Howdy all,
>
> In searching for tools to run automated regression tests against a Web
> aplication, I found (amid a number of tools requiring non-free Java) the
> WebUnit code:
>
> <http://webunit.sourceforge.net/>
>
> Unfortunately, the code is somewhat beta and doesn't seem to have been
> updated since 02-Feb-2002. Does anyone know if this has been updated
> since, or merged into some other project?
>
> Alternatively, does anyone know a (preferably Python) tool for automated
> regression testing of Web apps?[/color]

I use ClientForm and ClientCookies from http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/

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re: Alternatives to WebUnit

[Ben Finney wrote][color=blue]
> In searching for tools to run automated regression tests against a Web
> aplication, I found (amid a number of tools requiring non-free Java) the
> WebUnit code:[/color]

I don't understand why you don't like Java?

For those who might be interested, the following open-source java
tools do automated web testing.

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/latka/
http://maxq.tigris.org/

Or you could roll your own using jython and Apache Commons HttpClient

http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/

regards,

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re: Alternatives to WebUnit

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:40:40 +0100, Alan Kennedy wrote:[color=blue]
> [Ben Finney wrote][color=green]
>> a number of tools requiring non-free Java[/color]
>
> I don't understand why you don't like Java?[/color]

Because, thanks to Sun's increasingly restrictive licensing, any
meaningfully modern version of the complete Java environment is
implemented as non-free software, as I alluded above.

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re: Alternatives to WebUnit

On 20 Oct 2003 16:06:31 +0950, Ben Finney wrote:[color=blue]
> Alternatively, does anyone know a (preferably Python) tool for
> automated regression testing of Web apps?[/color]

Thanks to all for suggestions. I've now got three URLs to investigate
for automated web-application testing tools:

<http://mechanicalcat.net/tech/webunit/>
<http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/>
<http://puffinhome.org/>

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Ben Finney <http://bignose.squidly.org/>

re: Alternatives to WebUnit

Ben Finney <bignose-hates-spam@and-benfinney-does-too.id.au> writes:
[color=blue]
> Thanks to all for suggestions. I've now got three URLs to investigate
> for automated web-application testing tools:
>
> <http://mechanicalcat.net/tech/webunit/>
> <http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/>
> <http://puffinhome.org/>[/color]

I have a few more links to look at:

http://viii.dclxvi.org/bookmarks/tech/zope/test

Somewhat zope-centric.

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