Unit testing Web applications

[Monica Leko]

Hi!

Does Python has some testing frameworks for testing Web applications
(like Cactus and HttpUnit for Java), generating requests and checking
if the response is correct?

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi!

Does Python has some testing frameworks for testing Web applications
(like Cactus and HttpUnit for Java), generating requests and checking
if the response is correct?

mechanize and webunit come to my mind.

Yet the most powerful will be selenium together with selenium-remote driven
via python. Don't forget to check out the brilliant selenium IDE.

Diez

 

[Ryan Ginstrom]

On Behalf Of Monica Leko

Does Python has some testing frameworks for testing Web
applications (like Cactus and HttpUnit for Java), generating
requests and checking if the response is correct?

I have got a lot of traction using mechanize [1] with nose [2]. Of course
that still leaves out testing JavaScript. For that, something like PAMIE [3]
is one way to go.

[1] http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
[2] http://somethingaboutorange.com/mrl/projects/nose/
[3] http://pamie.sourceforge.net/

Here's an example of how I use mechanize + nose:

# test_index.py
from mechanize import Browser

class TestPageLoads:

def setup(self):
self.mech = Browser()
self.mech.set_handle_robots(False) # use thought and
consideration...

def test_nonexistent(self):
try:
response =
self.mech.open("http://honyaku-archive.org/nonexistent/")
assert False, "Should have thrown here"
except Exception, e:
assert "404" in str(e), e

def test_index(self):
response = self.mech.open("http://honyaku-archive.org/")
assert response.code == 200, response.code

def test_index_title(self):
response = self.mech.open("http://honyaku-archive.org/")
assert self.mech.title().strip() == "Honyaku Archive :: Home",
self.mech.title()

Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom