yes, there is a firefox plugin http://www.openqa.org/selenium-ide/
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Mike Kienenberger [mailto:mkienen..mail.com]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007 16:57
An: use..ayenne.apache.org
Betreff: Re: Unit testing web apps
Actually, I seem to recall that there are some Firefox (or maybe it
was IE) tools for developing Selenium tests rather rapidly. I don't
remember the details as I was just casually investigating the tool at
the time.
On 6/14/07, Malcolm Edgar <malcolm.edga..mail.com> wrote:
> The decision to develop UI unit tests really comes down to how much
> budget you have for your applications development.
>
> If you do, than that is great. You can also develop some load testing
> capability at the same time. Just note is time consuming / expensive
> to do so.
>
> regards Malcolm Edgar
>
> On 6/14/07, Peter Schröder <Peter.Schroede..reenet-ag.de> wrote:
> > hi kevin,
> >
> > i think that testing the ui is a very important part for a good quality web-application. it also helps understanding the webapp for new developers or reminding you of things that have been implemented in a sloppy way. it is poor that in most cases i dont take the time to write some tests on that...
> >
> > kind regards
> > peter
> >
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Kevin Menard [mailto:kmenar..ervprise.com]
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Juni 2007 20:34
> > An: use..ayenne.apache.org
> > Betreff: RE: Unit testing web apps
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Malcolm Edgar [mailto:malcolm.edga..mail.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2007 9:47 PM
> > > To: use..ayenne.apache.org
> > > Subject: Re: Unit testing web apps
> > >
> > > I think writing unit tests for DAO/Service classes is OK, but
> > > going up to the UI tier is not worth the effort. This is due
> > > to the amount of change you see in UI's and the effort it
> > > takes to write and maintain these tests.
> >
> > I have to disagree here. While they are a pain in the neck to maintain,
> > our selenium tests have turned up numerous problems. Just recently we
> > discovered a problem with using a shared data cache on certain objects.
> > It also helps tests session-bound contexts.
> >
> > Since Selenium uses an XPath-like syntax for DOM navigation, you can
> > write tests that generally work even after UI changes.
> >
> > --
> > Kevin
> >
>
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