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Functional Testing Revisited

We have got our functional testsuite working. It currently consists of more than 260 tests doing everything from the simple login to running recorded WebDAV tests and restarting Websphere etc.

We’ve done it in the way that Testing Extreme Programming prescribes, with collection of methods that are implemented both remotely and locally, running the servlets in-process. The methods are pretty high-level for a very high degree of usability.

We’ve used HtmlUnit as the basis of our tests, extending it in the high-level methods. It is a great package as it tests the JavaScript too, as opposed to recorded tests that only tests the servers response to a given HTTP request.

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This entry was posted on Friday, November 14th, 2003 at 8:38 and is filed under Programming. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Functional Testing Revisited”

  1. Ralph Roper Says:
    March 7th, 2004 at 12:51

    After evaluating a number of commercial and open-source tools I am starting to lean towards HtmlUnit. Are you still using HtmlUnit? Have you encountered any limitations?

    thanks,

    Ralph

  2. Pavel Sher Says:
    August 2nd, 2004 at 10:59

    You can try out actiWATE (http://www.actiwate.com/) - Web Application Testing Environment from Actimind, Inc (http://www.actimind.com/).

    The product is similar to HtmlUnit but has more comfortable API. We are planning to improve it with modules easing testing of web application, such as GUI runner.

    The product is freeware.

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