Re: Web::Magic 0.005

This is awesome.

The selectors are where it's at, and the sane method names used provide for easy access to the elements you want to find.

No need to worry about dependencies - we've got this great "CPAN" thing that Just Works.

Now if we could have a better testing DSL like Capybara has...

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Re^2: Web::Magic 0.005 by mascip (Pilgrim) on Jul 29, 2013 at 11:15 UTC
Nice, thanks for this module Toby. Seamless JSON support is very welcome. jdrago999, Brownie is a Capybara-like test framework in Perl. I'm going to give it a try soon. There is a presentation here, where the author says s.he welcomes contributors.	[reply]
Re^2: Web::Magic 0.005 by Anonymous Monk on Jan 29, 2012 at 22:56 UTC
Not that I disagree with you, but I wouldn't want to write tests like that, even with a DSL -- I'd rather fireup HTTP::Proxy or selenium or WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, and record a session in my firefox	[reply]
Re^3: Web::Magic 0.005 by jdrago999 (Pilgrim) on Jan 30, 2012 at 19:00 UTC
Not that I disagree with you, but I wouldn't want to write tests like that, even with a DSL -- I'd rather fireup HTTP::Proxy or selenium or WWW::Mechanize::Firefox, and record a session in my firefox It has been a while since I did that kind of testing...is HTTP::Recorder still the state-of-the-art or have things moved forward in the last 6 years? UPDATE: I just noticed there is a newer release as of July 2011.	[reply]