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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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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