Comparison with Selenium HTML unit?

[Jeff]

Hello,

I'm interested in using something like gaedriver. It looks like
Selenium's HTML unit is another option to do more or less the same
thing.

Is there a description somewhere of the similarities and differences
of these two tools and when one might be preferred over the other?

thanks,
Jeff

[Robert Schuppenies]

Hi Jeff.

Can you describe your exact test scenario? I think that would make it easier for me to make suggestions towards a testing approach.

In summary, gaedriver allows you to set up your App Engine app for testing (deployment or start-up with devappserver), while selenium/webdriver is about having an API to access web pages your app returns. If you want to test how your app renders pages, especially with JS-rich content, I would recommend using both, gaedriver and webdriver, the former to set up your app for testing, the latter to drive your web frontent tests.

cheers,

robert