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Serhii Kartashov
Serhii Kartashov

Reputation: 157

Does anyone know browser emulators?

Over 2 years I tested web application with help Selenium framework. I know the best design is testing on VM.

The only one downside of this - it's very slow testing. Why?

Would be great if there was a framework that emulated the browser (engine/core) correctly and can provide some results (api) for surf on the page.

I don't mean to simulate just on the one browser with different version (like IE). I mean to simulate for all browsers with very popular and newest version.

Does anyone know a framework/tool that can do it?

Thank you.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 206

Answers (2)

mawelpac
mawelpac

Reputation: 35

You can also run Selenium with Xvfb - I use it to execute test on remote server and it is going very well.

Upvotes: 0

kostja
kostja

Reputation: 61578

You can try PhantomJS for example.

From their page:

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit with JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.

You can use it in combination with Jasmine (as well as several other frameworks) for testing.

However the selection of available engines is limited to WebKit. I doubt that Selenium will be easy to replace. By the way it looks like Selenium will probably become a W3C standard over the next years.

Upvotes: 2

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