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Two New Testing/Automation Tools

Jim Priest — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:29:51 +0000

I found both these over the weekend and they both look really interesting:

Cubic – from the same folks that make Selenium

CubicTest is a graphical Eclipse plug-in for writing Selenium and Watir tests. It makes web tests faster and easier to write, and provides abstractions to make tests more robust and reusable.

CoScripter – IBM(?)

CoScripter is a system for recording, automating, and sharing processes performed in a web browser such as printing photos online, requesting a vacation hold for postal mail, or checking flight arrival times. Instructions for processes are recorded and stored in easy-to-read text here on the CoScripter web site, so anyone can make use of them.

Testing Flex Applications?

Jim Priest — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:56:28 +0000

We are exploring using Flex more (goodbye Powerbuilder!) here at work. We are also doing more and more testing and hope to eventually implement continuous integration.

I’ve seen a few tools to unit test Flex but I’m curious how you test Flex at the application level? For our web applications we are currently using Selenium.

Is there something similar for Flex?

How Do You Have Selenium Setup?

Jim Priest — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:28:50 +0000

I’m trying to come up with a standardized setup for Selenium so I can share it with our team and everyone can have the same configuration.

I have Selenium IDE installed within Firefox to record tests and I’m tinkering with different ways of setting up Selenium Core to run test suites locally. Our projects are stored in SVN and I want to store the test scripts there as well. I’m thinking I can store the scripts in a /testing directory and then include them within the webroot of my project on checkout using the svn:externals property.

If you use Selenium – how do you have it setup and configured? Do you use the Core or just Selenium IDE to run your tests?