Web-testing frameworks?

[Ben Beuchler]

I need to find a web-testing framework that will allow me to perform
functional tests of arbitrary sites, without access to their code.
Something like Cucumber but without the insane level of pain that
comes from maintaining RubyGem based projects in a production
environment. Bonus points if it's written in Python, of course.

-Ben

[Nick Bauman]

twill

http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/web-app-testing-with-python-part-3.html

[Dan Callahan]

It's a lot heavier than Twill, but Selenium might be worth looking into:

http://seleniumhq.org/

The Selenium IDE (a Firefox add-on) can generate Python unittest code
out of the box, amongst other things. There are also Python bindings
to manipulate the browser.

I haven't used it myself, but I've heard good things.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Ben Beuchler <ins...@gmail.com> wrote:

[David J. Meier]

"SST" (selenium-simple-test) Python Web Framework.  Based on Selenium WebDriver, but written in Python...

http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2012/01/officially-introducing-sst-python-web.html 

[Ben Beuchler]

I am now a complete twill convert, but now I'm told we need to be able
to execute client javascript for the tests to be valid, so it looks
like Selenium may be the way to go.

Thanks!

-Ben

[Nick Bauman]

http://blog.ianbicking.org/twill-in-javascript.html

[Ian Bicking]

PhantomJS is pretty cool too (basically headless WebKit), scriptable from Python.

[David J. Meier]

The SST framework is new:

https://launchpad.net/selenium-simple-test

Selenium/Python

[David J. Meier]

http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2012/01/officially-introducing-sst-python-web.html

Based on Selenium WebDriver and, of course, Python. :)

[David J. Meier]

http://coreygoldberg.blogspot.com/2012/01/officially-introducing-sst-python-web.html

Built on Selenium WebDriver and, of course, Python. :)

On Jan 17, 2:21 pm, Ben Beuchler <ins...@gmail.com> wrote: