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aepheus
aepheus

Reputation: 8197

automated testing using script injection on the web

I'm looking for a way to automate some simple testing of a web application. "Clicking x causes y" sort of testing. I want to write tests that can be run in a variety of browsers. I was thinking writing an inject-able script (bookmarklet sort of thing) which invokes click events and tests that elements exists might be a good way to go.

Are there any inherent dangers to this approach or major issues? Are there better alternatives? I don't want to get too involved in creating this test (don't want to create a test server, or go through a lot of setup), I just want to automate some repetitive testing.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1273

Answers (2)

alan
alan

Reputation: 890

As Diodeus said, Selenium is probably the most popular browser automation library right now (I believe Facebook uses it). Other frameworks you may wish to investigate:

In addition, you'll want to consider cross-browser testing when setting up an automated suite of tests. You can roll your own for this, or if you'd rather throw money at the problem, BrowserStack now offers an API that allows your tests to run on a range of browsers.

Upvotes: 1

Diodeus - James MacFarlane
Diodeus - James MacFarlane

Reputation: 114437

Selenium is pretty popular: http://seleniumhq.org/

Upvotes: 0

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