Selenium Testing

[Scott Willson]

Question for the developers among you. I'd like to improve the browser-
based acceptance tests—they're essential, but fragile and opaque. To
improve them, I'd like to move to a modern version of Selenium RC and
generate test reports with screenshots.

It looks like there's a nice package with RSpec + Ruby selenium-client
+ Rake tasks and report generation that will do nicely. Any objections
to RSpec-based acceptance tests?

By the way, I know that Webrat and Cucumber are the new hotnesses, but
they're not as good a fit. Webrat has a nice API for "fake" browser
testing, but it's Selenium support seems a late add-on, and to be a
step backwards from just straight-up selenium-client. Cucumber adds
even more complexity to an already-Rube Goldberg-like setup, and, I
don't know, I'm skeptical of natural-language tests.

Thanks for any thoughts,
Scott