selenium on ExtJS

okay, time to bring in the elephants: i'm implementing selenium and plan to use it for regression testing of an extJS based webapplication...

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agile vs. traditional testing ...

okay, i'm in that part of my dissertation where i am supposed to write something along the lines of agile vs. traditional testing.

i could use some input, so if anyone is reading this and willing to help a student in distress ... ;)

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my tool scope

first month is over and i have to hand in my dissertation in less than 8 weeks.

can you tell that i'm getting a little nervous?

so here come the tools i decided to give a closer look:

• selenium: for regression testing and functional black-box stuff. doing that i will also check CubicTest

  ...is a graphical Eclipse plug-in for writing Selenium and Watir tests. It makes web tests faster and easier to write, and provides abstractions to make tests more robust and reusable.

  ... we'll see about that ;)
• robotframework 2.1: to go keyword driven and check the possibilities to combine it with selenium tests.
• JMeter: 'cause i need to get some performance and load testing done

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an add-on made of awesome: zotero

last week i stumbled upon zotero - a most awesome firefox add-on! it lets you collect, manage and cite your research resources.
best thing: you can create snapshots of the resources, highlight text passages and export the whole thing so you can attach it to your dissertation.
now ain't that cool?!

am using the tool for a little over a week now and am totally convinced.

go get it > zotero!

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collecting open-source test-frameworks

as previously posted i'm busy writing my dissertation on "automated software testing for ajax-(Ext JS)-based web-applications".

i have the betas done for the parts introduction,motivation and basics of general testing of my dissertation.

now i'm searching for open-source testing-frameworks that fulfill my specific testing needs:
concept testing
change-based testing
functional testing
regression testing

i definitely have selenium with all its' modules on my plate and will try them till they break. i also read and heard a lot about Canoo WebTest and will give that a try as well.

any more tools?
hell yeah, there seem to be a lot of capture replay tools out there but well documented, open-source(!) tools that can handle ajax and ext JS on multiple browsers seem to be few and far between.

edit: opensourcetesting.org has a great list of open source testing tools. check them out!

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*waves to blogosphere*

so this is my blog's first entry and i can confirm: blogging dosn't hurt!

about me

• i'm falcy (it's pronounced falky).
• i don't like the caps key.
• i'm head of quality management of a software development company in germany.
• at the moment i'm working on my dissertation for the degree of a graduate computer scientist.my topic: automated testing of ajax and extJS based web-applications.

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