Who uses HtmlUnit?

[Mimmo Cosenza]

Hi all,
did anyone give a try to this java based HTMLUnit headless browser for cljs unit test to be used of phantomjs?

http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/

Thanks

Mimmo

[Kelker Ryan]

 I've never tried it for unit testing, but it's the de facto Java library for headless browsers and it's the driving force behind products such as Selenium WebDriver => http://seleniumhq.org/

 

I mostly use it for bot creation/automation and it supports many versions of popular web browsers such as Firefox (3.6, 10, 17), Chrome (+ 16), and IE (6, 7, 8, 9) => http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/apidocs/com/gargoylesoftware/htmlunit/BrowserVersion.html

 

06.10.2013, 20:23, "Mimmo Cosenza" <mimmo....@gmail.com>:

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[John D. Hume]

WebDriver's HtmlUnitDriver is only one of many supported drivers. Most Selenium-using teams I've been on have driven real browsers using another driver (which among other benefits allows one to generate realistic screen shots). 

The one team I was on that used HtmlUnit (a couple years ago) blamed it for sporadic test failures and had their own patched version that supposedly fixed concurrency issues (that they'd submitted as a patch but had not been accepted). I wasn't close to that research, so I can't attest to the issues personally.

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[Niels van Klaveren]

I've used HTMLunit, but the Javascript implementation used is rather slow compared to regular JS in browsers.
Since the webframework I need to test is rather JS heavy, this is a pretty big problem.
I had hopes that they would switch from Rhino to Nashorn, but there currently aren't plans for that.

Also, it has it's own idiosynchrasies browserwise, and I couldn't convince our developers to work around those by supporting yet another browser, just for testing.

It would be marvellous to have a headless browser that uses less resources than a regular, but for my uses HTMLunit just didn't cut it.
I should take a look at the PhantomJS browser and Ghostscript (and it's Webdriver support) one of these days.

[Niels van Klaveren]

Didn't see this was posted in the general Clojure group, and thought this had been posted in another group.
So if you want to do any automated web testing be sure to check out clj-webdriver, the clojure library for Selenium Webdriver and it's Google Group.
Selenium is the java platform for browser automation, supporting most browsers as well as headless browsers like HTMLunit and PhantomJS.

On Sunday, October 6, 2013 1:23:22 PM UTC+2, Magomimmo wrote:

[Mimmo Cosenza]

Thanks to everyone for the very informed advices.

As soon as I have time and energy :( I'll take a look at this last cli-webdriver. 

Thanks again to everyone

mimmo