I have used The Mech and I understand HTTP::Recorder

I have also examined in a cursory fashion Canoo Webtest, HTTPUnit, and other such tools.

But they don't handle client-side scripting.

I have been intrigued by IEUnit and Selenium, but I am wary of JavaScript and cross-site scripting problems.

And I want to be able to talk to the filesystem, the network, and the database also.

And I have investigated SAMIE, but the lack of documentation has stopped me cold, as have some of the implementation details.

Last week I attended The Austin Workshop on Test Automation where I demonstrated HTTP::Recorder and met with a number of wizardly folk who are using the Web Application Testing In Ruby (WATIR) framework. I saw amazing things done in very few lines of Ruby.

In my opinion, WATIR has no peer as a framework to drive functional test automation in Internet Explorer.

In a nutshell: driving functional testing in Internet Explorer with WATIR and Ruby, while putting a WWW::Mechanize-based analyzer inside of HTTP::Proxy (a la HTTP::Recorder), is a freakishly powerful environment for functional testing and performance testing.

Look to hear more about WATIR in the future. Unfortunately, it's not Perl, so that news won't be here-- but I suggest anyone interested in functional testing using IE as an interface check out WATIR.

In reply to Testing at the browser: a trip report. (Perl, Ruby, etc.) by McMahon

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