web-testing

Any suggestions for testing extjs code in a browser, preferably with selenium?

We've been using selenium with great success to handle high-level website testing (in addition to extensive python doctests at a module level). However now we're using extjs for a lot of pages and its proving difficult to incorporate Selenium tests for the complex components like grids. Has anyone had success writing automated tests f...

Do you use WaTiR?

Is there a better unit testing tool than WaTiR (tag) for Ruby web testing? Or is the defacto standard? What unit testing tools do you use? ...

How do you change your apparent country of origin to test a site?

I want to be able to set my country of origin - does this involve testing through a proxy, or is there something that can be set else where? ...

What is needed to execute visual studio 2005 web tests?

Our test department has a series of web tests created using Visual Studio 2005 Team Tester Edition. I would like to be able to execute these tests against my local machine. I attempted to use the mstest command line tool to accomplish this as described in this MSDN article. But I get the following error: C:\WebTests\Participant>mste...

Selenium: How to refresh a page over and over until it contains specific content?

[UPDATE 2: We rendered this question no longer relevant - using the -avoidProxy argument to the Selenium server meant Selenium-RC and our application worked together. So now we can use a programming language client driver to do the below. Thanks for the answers, though, they were helpful in pushing us to to this] We have a web applicati...

Replacement for JWebUnit / HttpUnit

We've used both JWebUnit and HttpUnit in the past to do functional tests of web applications. Both of them seem to have issues in handling javascript. We are not particularly interested in testing the javascript at this point, but JWebUnit and HttpUnit tests have broken since we added some small Ajax components (Dojo Date / Time pickers ...

Python CMS for my own website?

I'm an accomplished web and database developer, and I'm interested in redesigning my own website. I have the following content goals: Support a book I'm writing Move my blog to my own site (from blogger.com) Publish my articles (more persistent content than a blog) Host a forum with light use Embed slide sharing and screencasts I ...

automated testing with Watir (or WatiN or similar): Disambiguating Select Elements

Problem: I am looking for a way to run a test that is able to disambiguate between select controls that have the same value in more than one place. Example: I am trying to choose the third "monday" from a select control ie.select_list( :id , 'choose-day' ).set( '-monday' ); where the select control has a kind of "outline" format in...

Is there a way to test a web site on the iPhone without an iPhone?

I want to test a website to see how it works with the iPhone but I don't own an iPhone or an iPod touch. Is there a way I can test how the site works on them without owning one? What I'm really after is fixing how Stackoverflow's WMD markdown editor works on the iPhone. I hear that the hyperlink and image prompts are created too high....

Can I access a DOM object with Selenium?

I am coming from a QuickTest Pro background where I can get to any element's DOM object with the .object method. I want to know what the equivalent is in Selenium RC. ...

"Art of Test" for C# Automated Web Testing in CruiseControl.NET

We currently use SWEA (http://webiussoft.com) to run automated tests of the site during our CruiseControl.NET overnight builds. We are looking for a more robust solution and we are looking at the "Art of Test" (http://www.artoftest.com) solution. Has anyone experience with this tool? Most importantly, how easy is it to maintain tests...

visual studio team suite : How to web test programmatically?

Good day, I'm new to Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite web testing. Here's the action i'm trying to achieve. On a webpage, I have a dropdownlist that is populated from a simple database table. In my tests, I want to click on each items of the dynamically populated dropdownlist, and after the postback, check if a label is visible on the pag...

reduce the size of the selenium frame

I do I reduce the size of the selenium frame, in order to increase the frame of the website I am testing? ...

How to do Web Testing using Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite

Can someone point me to videos/blogs/instructions on using Web Testing in Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite and what it is? ...

Needed help automating Extjs grid using webaii

We are extensively using webaii as our functional automation tool with great success, but we are now facing problems automating extjs grid types using webaii. Could anyone who has overcome this issue in webaii or watin or watir provide inputs on this. ...

Webaii ConfirmDialog missing?

How do you Webaii guys out there handle javascript confirm popup's? I can't find a ConfirmDialog class in ArtOfTest.WebAii.Win32.Dialogs, and if I try to use AlertDialog instead I get an ArgumentException due to validation rules in the ctor for the AlertDialog class: "System.ArgumentException : Alert dialog can only be dismissed using...

Is there a good IE-based Selenium IDE?

The SeleniumIDE project is based on Firefox (and its plugin architecture). My application (for a variety of reasons) only runs on Internet Explorer (6+). In fact, we actively check for non-IE browsers and do an immediate redirect. This is a 6 yr old codebase and we're trying to remove all of the html idiosyncrasies that necessitat...

load testing with vs2008, how do I get stats from the system under test?

When running a webtest or load test on a website using VS2008 Test edition how can I get the CPU etc of the webserver? I am sure I am being very slow here but I cannot work out how to set it up! I can remote onto the webserver if that helps any. As a rider question, can I import perfmon stats back into an already-run test? ...

Integrating Automated Web Testing Into Build Process

I'm looking for suggestions to improve the process of automating functional testing of a website. Here's what I've tried in the past. I used to have a test project using WATIN. You effectively write what look like "unit tests" and use WATIN to automate a browser to click around your site etc. Of course, you need a site to be running. S...

VS Team System 2008 web test - webserver requires domain credentials

I'm writing some load tests agains a restricted web server on our local domain. The webserver requires entering network credentials to be able to access sites on the server. How do I automate my network login? Again, this is a server login, not a website login form. ...