Comments on: More on web testing

By: kiran

kiran — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:21:41 +0000

Hai All,
I have somewhat similar problem.
I am testing a site using HttpUnit .
The site uses Javascript Redirects instead of normal Hyperlinks.

I must now test the links & navigate to the next page.
I can use ieHttpHeader1 v1.6 or the proxy http://freshmeat.net/projects/loxy/
to show the headers sent between the browser and server.
But is it possible to simulate the same in HttpUnit and continue Testing.

By: Millennium

Millennium — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

There’s a piece of software out there called “Badboy”:http://www.badboy.com.au/ which looks like it’d do what you want, but unfortunately it only works for IE/Win. It can export to JMeter, but JMeter doesn’t really do all of what you want either.

Nevertheless, it’s a place to start. I’ve always wished something like this existed for Mozilla. Anyone know of anything like this in development?

By: Andyed

Andyed — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

You’re setting the bar high!

So I have a project for Mozilla that: installs as a priveledged sidebar, saves data to the filesystem, and watchs page loads in the main window.

It’s Mozilla only — circumventing the chrome restriction. There’s not going to be a way to bypass those restrictions thats common for moz and ie.

It knows how to save data to the filesystem, but doesn’t record or playback events — nonetheless, it’s a good start for this type of tool.

By: Clayton Scott

Clayton Scott — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

This is more doable with a proxy.

Put a web proxy betwen your browser and any server and you now can record any part of your web transaction.

There are a few Web testing tools that take this approach listed on freshmeat.net

By: sil

sil — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Web proxies will only record settings that get sent back to the server. So, as I said above, “Ive seen proxy applications, where the proxy seamlessly inserts stuff into your pagethe ones designed for web testing, though, dont do any JavaScript stuff, so they can only test form submissions and so on. I dont want thatI want to be able to track what a user does the whole time theyre testing, including whether any interactive stuff on the page works.”

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

I’m looking for the same thing. I’d be willing to settle for Mozilla or IE only. After seeing projects that tortuously try to reconstruct the page in order to script it, I thought why duplicate javascript, dom, and cookies, come up with your own script and event model? You’re bound to introduce bugs. HttpUnit + JTidy + Rhino + SunJSSE + custom cookie, session handling DOES NOT behave the same as IE6.0 or Mozilla 1.7.3. I’m wondering if your idea of a sidebar (or frameset) with a build of Mozilla with security yanked out would be enough to do it? I’ve tested it on local objects, and it works pretty good there. Combined with a DOM inspector to provide input, you could easily have a “test controller” frame drive a “test subject” frame with nothing more than the built in javascript DOM.

By: Michael Tonkin

Michael Tonkin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Hi all.

I’ve investigated this rather thoroughly too, I think my initial need is the same as Sils : record the user interactions within a browsing session (not just the URL calls), for plugging the recorded script back into a real browser. By real browser I mean one which will play the whole show (with UI redirect to /dev/null): fetch all content, then execute of javascripts, possibly even initiate flash animations &c.. The player would of course record all stats for whatever use you might want them (performance testing, content check, bug track).

There are many problems, Sil enumerates a good few, security being the major one of course.

I’ve investigated several possibilities: – do an ‘anonymizer.com’ style frontal, which redirects all URLs contained within a page. Frankly anonymizer.com has trouble with content using this method, and javascript &c. are impossible to do. – place a recording UI on top of Mozilla. See Sils post for this. – set up a reverse proxy-proxy pair with a recorder and cookie sessions added in the middle. Javascript and other nifty stuff won’t be possible.

The most promising is surely slapping a frontal on a Mozilla engine, But it will be trickier than just a XUL extension. Handling widgets for one will be rather fun.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the competence to code this, but if we’re a few interested, it might be worth the while to set up a Mozdev project?

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000

Hi there,

please find a good and ,low cost testing tool JStudio SiteWalker to automate web application GUI and validate any content. Because of it’s element based action handling many scenarios can be automated, many expensive tools cannot do. Find more info at http://www.jstudio.de

Have fun.