Alternatives to WebUnit

[Ben Finney]

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?

 

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Hi,

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?

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

 

[Wilk]

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?

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

 

[Alan Kennedy]

[Ben Finney wrote]

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:

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,

 

[Ben Finney]

[Ben Finney wrote]

a number of tools requiring non-free Java

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

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.

 

[Ben Finney]

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

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/>

 

[Karl Anderson]

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/>

I have a few more links to look at:

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

Somewhat zope-centric.